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FBO DAILY ISSUE OF MARCH 17, 2007 FBO #1937
SOURCES SOUGHT

Q -- National Medical Monitoring and Treatment Program for World Trade Center (WTC) Resuce, Recovery, and Restoration Responders and Volunteers

Notice Date
3/15/2007
 
Notice Type
Sources Sought
 
NAICS
621111 — Offices of Physicians (except Mental Health Specialists)
 
Contracting Office
Department of Health and Human Services, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Acquisition and Assistance Field Branch (Pittsburgh), Post Office Box 18070 Cochrans Mill Road, Pittsburgh, PA, 15236-0070, UNITED STATES
 
ZIP Code
00000
 
Solicitation Number
SSA-WTC-001
 
Response Due
4/20/2007
 
Archive Date
5/5/2007
 
Description
Notice of Sources Sought to Provide Health Care Services for a National Medical Monitoring and Treatment Program (NMMTP) for World Trade Center (WTC) Rescue, Recovery, and Restoration Responders and Volunteers The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) has responsibility for a Medical Monitoring and Treatment Program (MMTP) for responders and volunteers who were involved in rescue, recovery, or cleanup operations at the WTC site or at the debris handling operations on Staten Island. This program provides free health care for WTC-related conditions, broadly classified as aerodigestive, mental health, and musculoskeletal. Most of the estimated 35,000 responders and volunteers live in the New York City (NYC) metropolitan area, and services are provided to them by a NYC Consortium of six clinics. However, there is a need to enhance the services for approximately 3000 people who reside outside of the NYC metropolitan area. Thus, the purpose of this Notice is to describe the scope of work for this National Program (NP) and to learn of organizations that have the capability and interest to fulfill the need for this group of 3000 people and serve as the National Program Administrator (NPA). The benefits of monitoring and treatment for medical conditions must apply uniformly to all responders and volunteers regardless of their residence location. Developing a seamless monitoring and treatment program for responders and volunteers who live in the NYC metropolitan area and for those who reside nationally is a high priority. For people who live outside of the NYC metropolitan area, their geographical locations often create a challenge to find occupational medicine facilities near to where they reside. When appropriate facilities are located, they must conduct basic exams in the same manner at those conducted by the clinics in the NYC Consortium. These facilities must also provide copies of exam records to a Data Coordinating Center (DCC) at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine (Mt. Sinai) so that the overall MMTP program can be managed. Services for the participants outside of the NYC metropolitan area have been provided through multiple organizations and have been limited in many cases to a single screening examination. The goal is to create a NP that would provide monitoring and treatment services for this group through a national network of appropriate clinics that would be reasonably convenient to them (within a normal driving time for health care). Monitoring exams are provided every 18 months, and treatment is provided as needed. Experience to date in the NYC Consortium indicates that about 17% of the participants need ongoing health care for aerodigestive disorders and about 16% for mental health problems. There have been very few cases of musculoskeletal disorders. If any new potential national participants were to seek enrollment, they would be administered a standard telephone intake questionnaire by the Mt. Sinai DCC Phone Bank to determine eligibility. Determination of eligibility for participation is a DCC responsibility. Eligible people would be referred by encrypted email lists to the NPA that would have responsibility for coordination of monitoring examinations and treatment provided through a network of health care providers. The NPA would provide the DCC with hard copy monitoring examination charts, along with appropriate HIPAA release forms and a physician-signed letter explaining the exam results for each patient seen in the NMMTP. The NPA would ensure timely completion of a Patient Information Form and a Healthcare Provider Form for both monitoring and treatment visits. The content of those forms would be provided to the DCC on a monthly basis. Additionally, the NPA would complete and submit to the DCC the same monthly reports as the other clinical centers, which summarize the numbers of people examined and treated. The NPA would provide initial and follow-up examinations. The content would be the ?core? examination (examinations conducted at NYC metropolitan clinics may have additional questionnaire components). Specifically, for NMMTP examinations, the following components would be performed: a short self-administered medical questionnaire and a physician-administered medical questionnaire and physical examination form (the ?short protocol?); pre- and post-brochodilator pulmonary function tests (PFTs); standard blood and urine tests; and chest x-ray for initial examinations. Immediate, urgent, and final letters would be completed and given or sent to each patient by the examining clinic. Examinations would be paid for by the NPA using contract funds. A new Quality Assurance/Quality Improvement (QA/QI) program is currently being created by NYC Consortium. The lead doctor with the NPA would participate in the program and be responsible for its own QA/QI. The NPA and the Mt. Sinai DCC would sign a Business Associate Addendum, since new patient data would be shared between the two groups. The NPA would be responsible for ensuring HIPAA compliance with each of its examining sites. A representative from the NPA would be a member of the Steering Committee of the WTC Medical Monitoring and Treatment Program and attend monthly meetings in NYC. Information about the MMTP can be found at the following websites: http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/wtc/ http://www.hhs.gov/wtc/ http://www.wtcexams.org/forms.html NIOSH is seeking sources capable of providing the Health Care Services as detailed above. Interested sources are requested to submit limited relevant information on the following qualifications of the organization: (1) Experience: An outline of previous work specific to the requirements listed above; (2) Personnel: Name, professional qualifications and specific experience of those in key positions; and (3) Facilities: Availability and description of facilities and equipment required to provide the required services, including capabilities for electronic data entry and use of web-based encrypted systems. Any other specific and relevant information that would improve the government's consideration and evaluation of the information presented is desirable. Your responses will assist the Government in selecting the appropriate acquisition mechanism. Responses to this notice shall include the organization's name, address, point of contact, National Provider Identifier (NPI) if available, and size of business (large, small, small women- owned, etc.). This notice is for information and planning purposes only and does not commit the Government to any contractual agreement. This is not a request for proposals. The Government does not intend to award a contract based on responses under this announcement nor otherwise pay for preparing any information sent or the Government's use of the information. Any proprietary information should be so marked. Please submit the requested information to the attention of the CDC Contracting Officer, David Staudt, by 3 p.m., Friday, April 20, 2007.
 
Place of Performance
Address: Nation Wide
Zip Code: 15236-0070
Country: UNITED STATES
 
Record
SN01251713-W 20070317/070315220540 (fbodaily.com)
 
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