SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- DATA-BASED SCREENING TOOL FOR THE CO-OCCURING MATRIX
- Notice Date
- 7/17/2004
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 541611
— Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, Program Support Center, Division of Acquisition Management, Parklawn Building Room 5-101 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD, 20857
- ZIP Code
- 20857
- Solicitation Number
- Reference-Number-04M000191
- Response Due
- 8/1/2004
- Archive Date
- 8/16/2004
- Point of Contact
- Chris Ganey, Contract Specialist, Phone 301-443-4379, Fax 301-443-3849,
- E-Mail Address
-
cganey2@psc.gov
- Description
- The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (DHHS), through the Program Support Center, intends to negotiate a sole-source award with the University of Washington, Seattle, WA . Purpose: The purposes are 1) to support the development and refinement of a screening tool appropriate to the identification of persons with possible co-occurring substance abuse and mental disorders, and 2) to use the instrument to help validate the Co-Occurring Quadrant Model, a conceptual approach to categorizing persons with co-occurring disorders developed with SAMHSA support by the National Association of State Alcohol/Drug Abuse Directors (NASADAD) and the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors (NASMHPD). Provision of services for persons with co-occurring substance abuse and mental disorders is a major SAMHSA priority. SAMHSA/CSAT has a unique opportunity to contribute to the treatment field by supporting the development of a reliable, valid, brief clinical screening tool for use by providers of service to persons with co-occurring substance abuse and mental disorders. SAMHSA?s 2002 Report to Congress on Co-occurring Disorders identified screening as an essential component ?no-wrong-door? services for persons with co-occurring disorders. SAMHSA is currently developing a standard set of measures of provider performance in serving this population that will include a report on screening practices. As yet, there is no standard, routinely used screening instrument available to the field. The National Dialogue on Co-occurring Mental Health and Substance Abuse Disorders, developed and endorsed by the collaboration of NASADAD and NASMHPD in 1998, has been promoted as a conceptual model to demonstrate how Mental Health (MH) and Substance Abuse (SA) Disorders relate to each other (co-occur), and how MH and SA treatment systems interact in serving persons with co-occurring disorders. The National Dialogue proposed a ?quadrant model,? a four box matrix composed of combinations of Low and High severities of Mental Health and Substance Abuse problem severities. While the Co-occurring Matrix makes conceptual and clinical sense ? i.e. has high face validity ? it has never been subjected to systematic evaluation. For example, the National Dialogue describes, in broad terms, the characteristics of the Co-occurring Quadrant Model categories (LL, LH, HL, and HH), but does not supply any specific methodology for screening an individual to determine whether the person may ?fit? within into one or another quadrant. Such a screening tool would allow treatment providers to quickly assess and plan for which types or mixes of types of co-occurring disorders patients might be in a given population, and thus develop the appropriate mix of services for this population, according to the logic of the matrix. Further, the National Dialogue makes assumptions about the preferred locus of care for various LH categories in each quadrant, however, since no tool has been developed to place cases, this locus of care model has never been tested using a clinical data base. Therefore, the need exists to operationalize definitions for the Low and High categories for each of the quadrants and then obtain data on the relative numbers and characteristics of cases in each quadrant for a given clinical site, (in this purchase order, a busy urban emergency room). From these operational definitions, a specific screening tool may be developed that can reliably classify persons with co-occurring disorders into the four quadrants. This REQUIREMENT will support the development and validation of such a tool, the Co-occurring Matrix Screening Tool or CMaST. The CMaST will be used to re-evaluate the same individuals one and 3 months afer the initial screening, and after their crisis, to see if the screening tool picks up changes in their MH or SA severities, and if there is a corresponding change in Matrix category. A strength of this project is that it will evaluate emergency patients, who are often the ones for whom planning is most needed The University of Washington has published numerous research articles on authorship of the major SAMHSA/CSAT publications on the topic of co-occurring disorders, and the association with the Quadrant Model, the University has the expertise and reputation necessary to develop a credible screening instrument. Most critically, activities through this requirement are reliant on access the a large database on over 10,000 admissions to emergency mental health and substance abuse services at the Harborview Medical Center. The purposes of the requirement are entirely dependent on access to this database, from which items for the screening tool will be drawn, and based on which the quadrant model will be evaluated. . THE PROPOSED SIMPLIFIED ACQUISITION ACTION IS FOR SUPPLIES OR SERVICES FOR WHICH THE GOVERNMENT INTENDS TO SOLICIT AND NEGOTIATE WITH ONLY ONE SOURCE UNDER AUTHORITY OF FAR 13.106-1 INTERESTED PERSONS MAY IDENTIFY THEIR INTEREST AND CAPABILITY TO RESPOND TO THE REQUIREMENT OR SUBMIT PROPOSALS WITHIN 7 DAYS AFTER THE DATE OF PUBLICATION OF THIS NOTICE. A DETERMINATION BY THE GOVERNMENT NOT TO COMPETE THIS PROPOSED SIMPLIFIED ACQUISITION BASED UPON RESPONSES TO THIS NOTICE IS SOLELY WITHIN THE DISCRETION OF THE GOVERNMENT. INFORMATION RECEIVED WILL NORMALLY BE CONSIDERED SOLELY FOR THE PURPOSE OF DETERMINING WHETHER TO CONDUCT A COMPETITIVE PROCUREMENT.
- Record
- SN00625721-W 20040719/040717211535 (fbodaily.com)
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