SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- Technical Assistance for Domestic Violence Assessment and Intervention
- Notice Date
- 5/18/2006
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 541618
— Other Management Consulting Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, Division of Procurement Management, 5600 Fishers Lane, Room 13A-19, Rockville, MD, 20857
- ZIP Code
- 20857
- Solicitation Number
- RFP06N2405509
- Response Due
- 8/30/2006
- Archive Date
- 12/30/2006
- Description
- The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) is soliciting proposals from organizations to provide Technical Assistance for Domestic Violence Assessment and Intervention for the Healthy Start Population. This is a Full and Open Competitive Requirement. The NACIS Code is 541618 with a Small Business Standard of 6.0 million (to qualify as a small business). The contractor shall develop and provide technical assistance to enhance the capacity of primary care and perinatal care providers at Healthy Start sites and community-based intervention programs to assess perinatal clients for current or past exposure to intimate partner violence and to effectively convey information about risk reduction and intervention services that are ulturally relevant and specific to their target population. The technical assistance will be tailored to the specific community and program needs of each Healthy Start site and is provided to enhance the capacity of providers to screen for and educate their clients about family violence and to improve linkages between screening sites and community-based intervention programs for women experiencing family violence during or around the time of pregnancy. One in three women in the United States will be abused by a current or former partner sometime during their lives. Pregnancy presents an important window of opportunity to identify domestic and family violence; the routine frequency of prenatal visits can facilitate a relationship of trust and support between the clinician and her/his client and the opportunity to promote change. The health consequences of domestic violence include physical injury, disability, social, emotional and/or economic deprivation and death. Moreover, the obstetric and perinatal outcomes associated with abuse include placental abruptions, preterm labor, preterm delivery, preterm rupture of membranes, inadequate maternal weight gain and low birth weight infants.Pregnancy has been identified as a potential period of increased risk for violence inflicted by intimate partners. The prevalence of violence during pregnancy is estimated to range between 0.9 to 20.1 percent but a number of studies indicate a narrower range of 3.9 to 8.3 percent. This indicates that pregnant women are more likely to experience violence than preeclampsia, gestational diabetes, or placenta previa. The technical assistance (TA) provided shall include the following three components: (1) A needs assessment of the Healthy Start site that must include but not be limited to identifying the local prevalence of domestic violence and sexual abuse, strengths/weaknesses of current services provided at the site, screening rates, identification of personnel currently conducting domestic violence assessments and the Healthy Start site process of linking domestic violence screening to intervention services, current gaps in services that may be linked via technical assistance activities, identification of the appropriate staff to receive the TA training and assess the need for cultural diversity among the site providers and materials; (2) Development of a TA plan for enhancement of provider capacity to assess for domestic violence and for effective linkages between domestic violence assessment, perinatal services, primary care services and essential community intervention programs that are tailored to the population and practice setting. To represent the consortium that must be present at the TA trainings, community intervention programs must include but not limited to women?s shelters, linkages with consortia that is representative of the target community, justice system, employee assistance programs, animal protection organizations and dental providers and (3) Two days of on-site TA to implement the TA plan with all the consortia represented. The TA must be provided by at least one staff member with cultural expertise related to the majority population(s) served by the grant receiving TA. The contractor will assist each site in drafting a 90-day site action plan and provide follow-up via phone, on-site and/or electronic consultation to each site that receives TA. The Government anticipates award of a contract consisting of a twelve month base period. This is a pre-solicitation notice and not a request for proposals. The solicitation document (RFP) will be posted at this site www.fedbizopps.gov within fifteen(15) days of this notice and can be downloaded by looking under the main menu for HHS/Office-Health Resources and Services Administration/locations-Division of Procurement Management. The closing date for receipt of proposals will be approximately thirty (30) days after issuance/posting of the RFP. It shall be the offeror?s responsibility to monitor this website for the RFP and any amendments to the RFP. The agency will consider proposals from all responsible sources. The contact person for this acquisition is: Debora A. Pitts, Contracts Operations Branch, DPM/OMPS/HRSA, Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, Room 13A-19, Rockville, MD 20857-5600; phone number 301-443-3789 or 443-2750; FAX 301-443-6038.
- Place of Performance
- Address: Rockville,MD
- Zip Code: 20857
- Zip Code: 20857
- Record
- SN01052779-W 20060520/060519133802 (fbodaily.com)
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