SOURCES SOUGHT
R -- SAMHSA National Spending Estimates Project for Mental Health and Substance Abuse Treatment
- Notice Date
- 1/30/2006
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541611
— Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Choke Cherry, 1 Choke Cherry Road Room 7-1051, Rockville, MD, 20857
- ZIP Code
- 20857
- Solicitation Number
- 270-06-0149
- Response Due
- 2/9/2006
- Archive Date
- 2/24/2006
- Description
- This is not a solicitation announcement. This is a sources sought synopsis only. The purpose of this sources sought synopsis is to gain knowledge of potential qualified sources and their size classifications (HUBZone 8(a), 8(a), HUBZone, and Small Disadvantage Business) relative to the NAICS Codes. Project Title: SAMHSA National Spending Estimates Project for Mental Health and Substance Abuse Treatment: # 270-06-0149 Project Description: CSAT /CMHS will continue to provide highly technical work in producing 10 year estimates of all national past expenditures, 10 year projections on future spending, and special cost and utilization reports--addressing all expenditures on public and private mental health services and substance abuse treatment (MH/SA). The methodology used to develop the estimates and projections will be parallel to those used previously under the Spending Estimates Project (i.e., National Expenditures on Mental Health Services and Substance Abuse Treatment, 1991 ? 2001, DHHS Pub No. SMA-05-3999) and is produced to be comparable to the overall national expenditures that are produced by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). The SAMHSA spending estimates will also capture and segregate detailed additional MH/SA expenditures and MH/SA providers not included in the CMS National Health Accounts. The Spending Estimates Project requires specific, advanced technical capabilities and knowledge. The technical capabilities include: actuarial research and estimation, econometric techniques, projections and forecasting methods, ability to input missing information, understanding of surveys and sampling methodologies, experience with a wide array of large health data bases (both surveys and claims), detailed actuarial knowledge with the national health accounts, techniques for quality assurance, understanding of trend analysis, and sound judgment about data quality and usefulness. Technical capabilities also include a wide array of research techniques for special studies to improve the spending estimates and the ability to present technical materials in written and graphical form to non-technical audiences. In addition to these technical capabilities, national MH/SA policy expertise is necessary. Such knowledge must encompass a detailed understanding of mental health and substance abuse treatment services, spending, and financing; knowledge of federal and state policies related to mental health and substance abuse (MHSA); as well as a broad understanding of the U.S. health care system and its trends in practice patterns, spending, and financing. To carry out this project the contractor shall accomplish the following: A) Propose and implement a methodology for making 10 year spending estimates and for making 10 year projections that provide for continuity and consistency with previous sets of MH/SA estimates disseminated by SAMHSA. Each year, evaluate produced reports/articles and make recommendations prior to the next round of estimates or projections for improvements in the methodology that has been previously developed. Review of pertinent literature in methods, cost reporting and new or changed national databases is included. B) Develop estimates for at least a ten-year period of national MH/SA spending that parallel the previous sets of MH/SA estimates undertaken by SAMHSA and are consistent with estimates of general health care spending produced by the CMS. This includes utilization of the same categories of payment and service type that are employed in the general CMS Health Accounts estimates. In addition, estimates for these categories should be further disaggregated by the type of MH/SA service and diagnosis (i.e., MH/SA, MH, SA, Alcohol and Drug Treatment). C) Develop projections of future MH/SA spending across a 10 year period. Forecasting methods available should be assessed for usefulness and blended methods used, if this would provide the best projections. As the total time period of past estimates lengthens, increasingly sophisticated methods should be possible. D) Prepare a variety of special reports integrating financing policy concerns of the current mental health and substance abuse treatment literature and trends, highlighting policy relevant findings. These special reports will explore cost, service utilization, special populations or other trends to further refine the spending estimates and to explore the factors that affect the trends in spending. Your responses to the questions provided below will assist the Government in selecting the appropriate acquisition method. Page limit: Maximum 11 pages (font size 10 or larger). In addition, a copy of the company capability statement will be accepted. Responses are due on February 9, 2006. The anticipated period of performance is a one year with four 1 year option periods. After review of the responses received a solicitation may be published in the Federal Business Opportunities around February 28, 2006. Response to this notice shall include company name, address, point of contact, size of business pursuant to North American Industrial Classification Code (NAICS) and must respond to the following questions: 1. Is your business a small business under the NAICS code? 2. Does your firm qualify as a small disadvantaged business? 3. If disadvantaged, specify if your firm is certified under Section 8(a) of the Small Business Act? 4. Are you considered a certified HUBZone firm? 5. Are you considered woman-owned or operated business? 6. Are you a certified Service-Disabled Veteran Owned or Veteran Owned? 7. Is your business a large business? 8. Describe in detail your proven capability and current in-house capacity in use of the national databases that are currently used for the National Expenditures report of the Spending Estimates, specifically: National Health Accounts National Hospital Discharge Survey, National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, National Nursing Home Survey, National Home and Hospice Care Survey, Market Scan, IMS Health Inc. data, Medicaid drug rebate data, Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project, Nationwide Inpatient Sample, National Medical Expenditure Survey, Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, Economic Census, Health Care and Social Assistance Sector, Alcohol and Drug Services Study (ADSS), Inventory/Survey of Mental Healthcare Organizations (SMHO), National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (NSSATS) / Uniform Facility Data Set (UFDS) 9. Describe in detail your proven capability, including staff expertise in performing such tasks, using advanced methods that are: 1) statistical; 2) econometric; 3) actuarial. Specifically address methods used in prior work under the Spending Estimates project, including: determining trim points and use of methods to impute missing information, such as hot deck imputations, especially if related to specialty MH/SA data bases such as ADSS, UFDS and SMHO; actuarial estimation and forecasting, such as smoothing, adjusting bias or addressing definitional problems; econometric techniques, including pricing adjustments; complex statistical techniques to determine data reliability, such as in multivariate analysis to correct standard error. 10. Describe your proven capability and experience with the CMS National Health Account and its construction, especially actuarial or econometric modeling and/or adjustments in methods for additional desegregation of data to address special populations, age groups, etc. 11. Describe your proven capability and current in-house capacity to forecast expenditures and provide trend analysis, to identify emerging or changing data sets, link information from many different large data sets, other methods to enhance data usefulness, advanced statistical programming in extremely large claims data sets, such as incorporation of negative claims and familiarity in MH/SA coding, exclusions and under coding. 12. Describe your proven capability and current in-house capacity to demonstrate a detailed understanding of MH/SA spending, and financing; knowledge of the MH/SA data elements in health and MH/SA data sets and data gaps, knowledge of federal and state policies related to mental health and substance abuse (MHSA); success in peer reviewed publications and technical governmental reports; as well as a broad understanding of the U.S. health care system and its trends in practice patterns, spending, and financing.
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