MODIFICATION
A -- Innovations Clearinghouse
- Notice Date
- 5/22/2006
- Notice Type
- Modification
- NAICS
- 541990
— All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Contracts Management, 540 Gaither Road, Rockville, MD, 20850
- ZIP Code
- 20850
- Solicitation Number
- AHRQ-06-00002
- Response Due
- 7/25/2006
- Point of Contact
- Mary Haines, Contracting Officer, Phone 301 427-1786, Fax 301 427-1740, - Mary Haines, Contracting Officer, Phone 301 427-1786, Fax 301 427-1740,
- E-Mail Address
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mhaines@ahrq.gov, mhaines@ahrq.gov
- Description
- The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) is soliciting proposals for a five-year (three years with one two-year extension option) reimbursable contract to establish an Innovations Clearinghouse that will be a database-driven, Internet-accessible, public clearinghouse of innovations in health service delivery. The Innovations Clearinghouse will facilitate collection of innovative health service practices and present them in a standardized format accompanied by expert commentary; promote their dissemination, replication, adaptation, and use; and, foster innovation in the U.S. health care service industry. Tasks will revolve around the development, deployment and maintenance of the processes and systems to collect, publish, update and archive innovations (in health service delivery), associated tools and lessons learned. The innovations will be entered and stored in a Contractor-constructed database; they will be posted to a Web site the Contractor will design, deploy and maintain for this project. Related tasks include establishment of an expert panel and an editorial board, development of criteria that innovative health service delivery practices must meet to be included in the Clearinghouse, and creation of a standardized template to capture innovations’ attributes. The expert panel will guide the Clearinghouse on broad project areas, and will participate in approval of the inclusion criteria and standardized template. The Web site will be user-centered and will meet requirements of the E-Government Act of 2002, including ensuring information quality, following Department-wide policies, communicating with the public and following the Paperwork Reduction Act, using an approved domain, implementing security controls, protecting privacy, maintaining accessibility, and managing records. In addition, online and offline opportunities for learning and networking among Innovations Clearinghouse users will be a component of this project. AHRQ’s QualityTools database and Web site (www.qualitytools.ahrq.gov) will become the responsibility of the Innovations Clearinghouse Contractor. Eventually, the QualityTools database will be presented through the Innovations Clearinghouse Web site. Offerors must possess expertise in health service delivery innovation and change; implementation of evidence-based health practices; health care quality improvement or disparities reduction strategy implementation and evaluation; complex database and government Web-site development and maintenance; and, working with expert panels and editorial boards. To evaluate the Offeror’s expertise in the aforementioned areas, the information on the process to perform the work described below must be included in the proposal. 1. Maintain AHRQ’s QualityTools database and Web site. 2. Establish a project expert panel that will provide feedback and guidance, and to establish an editorial board with capacity to review submissions and write expert commentary critiquing innovation successes and failures, offering insights and addressing the nuances of innovation, implementation, and change. 3. Develop and apply inclusion criteria related to health service delivery innovations. 4. Develop an innovations database template record; Stimulate, assist in generating, and collect a comprehensive accumulation of health service delivery innovations and lessons learned. 6. Stimulate, assist in generating, and collecting a comprehensive accumulation of health service delivery innovations and lessons learned. 7. Design the Innovations Clearinghouse Web site incorporating feedback provided on the existing QualityTools Web site, and develop, test, deploy, maintain, and evaluate this national Web-based repository of health care system and practice innovations, change initiatives, change packages, and associated tools and lessons learned; import QualityTools’ Web crawler feature with a redesigned interface to assist users in finding relevant innovations, change initiatives, packages and tools at specific, complementary Web sites for ‘one stop’ searching (or suggest an alternative Web crawler accompanied by rationale). 7. Emphasize innovations targeting public health priority diseases/conditions, priority populations, and efforts to reduce disparities in quality. 8. Provide appropriate and timely technical assistance to users; and 9. Provide dynamic opportunities for learning and networking among the users of the Web site The Innovations Clearinghouse is to be comprised of core staff of seasoned professionals with education and experience in areas such as operationalizing health service delivery innovation and change; implementing and evaluating health care quality improvement or disparities reduction strategies; educating and training adult professionals; evaluating and implementing evidence-based clinical information; constructing large relational databases; developing clinically-related classification schemes; and developing Web sites. A PMI-certified or PMI-certification eligible Project Manager is required as well as demonstrated ability to provide EVM information. In the event that the Innovations Clearinghouse core staff does not include particular expertise needed to accomplish a particular task, the Innovations Clearinghouse is to obtain such expertise through consultants and/or subcontracts. In addition to the solicitation being available on this site, it will be available for downloading from the internet on AHRQ’s site at http://ahrq.gov . Once in AHRQ’s homepage go to “Funding Opportunities”, then to “Contracts”, and then to “Request for Proposal (RFP)”. It is the offerors responsibility to monitor this site for release of the solicitation, download their own copy of the solicitation, and to monitor this site for any subsequent amendments. It is estimated that the solicitation will be issued on/about May 19, 2006 with proposals due July 25, 2006. NOTE: THIS NOTICE MAY HAVE POSTED ON FEDBIZOPPS ON THE DATE INDICATED IN THE NOTICE ITSELF (22-MAY-2006). IT ACTUALLY APPEARED OR REAPPEARED ON THE FEDBIZOPPS SYSTEM ON 29-SEP-2006, BUT REAPPEARED IN THE FTP FEED FOR THIS POSTING DATE. PLEASE CONTACT fbo.support@gsa.gov REGARDING THIS ISSUE.
- Web Link
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- Record
- SN01158860-F 20061001/060929224205 (fbodaily.com)
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