SPECIAL NOTICE
Q -- Public Health Surveillance of Chemical and Toxin Exposures
- Notice Date
- 6/15/2006
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 813920
— Professional Organizations
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Procurement and Grants Office (Atlanta), 2920 Brandywine Road, Room 3000, Atlanta, GA, 30341-4146
- ZIP Code
- 30341-4146
- Solicitation Number
- Reference-Number-000HCN72-2006-28553
- Response Due
- 6/30/2006
- Archive Date
- 7/15/2006
- Description
- NOTICE OF INTENT TO SOLE SOURCE: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announces its intention to negotiate a sole source contract with the American Association of Poison Control Centers (AAPCC), 3201 New Mexico Avenue, Suite 330, Washington, DC 20016. AAPCC is the association of the 63 poison control centers in the United States and as such receives data concerning 2.2 million poison exposures annually from U.S. poison control centers. This poisoning data is updated every 4-10 minutes, 24 hours a day. Toxicologists, epidemiologists, and statisticians at AAPCC and CDC (NCEH/EHHE/HSB) have developed and continually modify categories of information collected by the national poisonings data system to analyze for aberration detection. The Contractor, as an independent agent and not as an agent of the government, shall provide CDC with data about poisonings from the Poison Control Centers (PCCs) (i.e., call volume, clinical effect data, and specific substance data) for use in CDC toxicosurveillance and notification of public health officials of aberrations. The Contractor shall provide real-time toxicosurveillance data in a manner that meets or exceeds CDC security requirements established by the Public Health Information Network (PHIN). The software and hardware used to collect national poisonings data will be flexible enough to eventually allow for the uploading of, or ensure the accuracy of coding for, text fields from the PCC record; is compatible with the four data entry platforms currently being used by the PCCs; and can be modified as CDC?s data needs grow and change. The system and the data collected will be continually reviewed and evaluated collaboratively by the Contractor and CDC toxicology and surveillance experts so that data quality and utility is improved. All work performed under this contract is done so under guidelines and limitations set forth in the executed licensing agreement(s). So that progress can be monitored, the Contractor shall provide quarterly reports to CDC. Reports will describe the progress of each activity, as well as the costs associated with that progress. Technical Requirements ? The Contractor shall: 1. Complete initial rebuild of national poisoning data system, ensuring CDC access to data, compliance with CDC security and technology specifications, and system redundancies to protect the data. 2. Continue to review 10-20 aberrations detected in the regularly monitored exposure data and provide subject matter expertise interpretation and resolution of the aberration as appropriate. This activity is the daily operation and purpose of the national poisoning data system for CDC. 3. Expand the current capability of national poisoning data so it can be utilized by GIS software applications and will purchase the software to allow creation of visual display of national poisoning data. 4. Develop a database and track the details about alerts issued by the national poisoning data system, including origin, follow-up actions, contacts, and resolution. 5. Facilitate an evaluation activity local poison control centers to expand their surveillance capabilities and improve their ability to detect aberrations at the local level. The proposed activity will replicate and expand the national aberrancy detection algorithms at 3 local PCCs; the evaluation will compare detection of anomalies at the local level versus the national level. 6. Facilitate an evaluation activity local poison control centers to: a) develop a database to track the details (e.g., origin, follow-up actions, contacts, resolution) about aberrations that their local detection systems identify; and b) compare their anomalies with PCC surveillance to determine whether there is any added public health benefit in conducting surveillance on the local level in addition to national surveillance. The PCC tracking databases will be compared for sensitivity and specificity to the databases developed by AAPCC for national aberration detection. 7. Facilitate evaluation activity at local poison control centers to evaluate the quality of the data that is uploaded to the national poisoning data system by comparing the coded variables (available at a national level) to the more comprehensive text data that is entered and stored at the local level. PCCs will pull records of past calls and use fellow and/or local staff to compare the sensitivity and specificity of the codes entered into the national data system to capture information recorded in the text fields. 8. Facilitate an evaluation activity local poison control centers to test the ability of the system to detect a staged chemical event. PCCs to conduct a ?mock event? whereby poisoning data is planted in those PCC?s data and sent to AAPCC?s national poisoning data system. The evaluation will determine the sensitivity of the national poisoning data system to detect the ?event?. 9. Facilitate a survey of PCC and other public health officials about their understanding of the role and function of clinical toxicology in the public health setting. 10. Provide one staff person at each poison control center access to training and/or training materials about the new national poisoning data system. Reporting Schedule ? At 4, 8 and 12 months after contract award, the Contractor shall provide progress report describing expenditures to date, number and nature of aberrations, number of outbreaks or real events detected, resolution of aberrations, and upgrades to the hardware and software. The Statutory Authorities permitting other than Full and Open Competition is FAR 6.302-1, Only one responsible source and no other services will satisfy agency requirements. Interested parties may submit a statement of qualifications and experience which, if timely received, will be evaluated by CDC to determine if a competitive solicitation should be issued. Inquires must be received by July 14, 2006, at 4:00PM, Eastern Standard Time (EST). Collect calls will not be accepted. Responses may be E-mailed to Charlene Allison at fkk1@cdc.gov. Questions regarding this proposed acquisition may be directed to Charlene Allison, Contract Officer, 770-488-2841.
- Place of Performance
- Address: Various US Locations
- Record
- SN01070455-W 20060617/060615220727 (fbodaily.com)
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