SOURCES SOUGHT
A -- Sources Sought Medical Providers Component
- Notice Date
- 11/16/2007
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541720
— Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Contracts Management, 540 Gaither Road, Rockville, MD, 20850, UNITED STATES
- ZIP Code
- 20850
- Solicitation Number
- SSAHRQMPC
- Response Due
- 12/3/2007
- Point of Contact
- Mary Haines, Contracting Officer, Phone 301 427-1786, Fax 301 427-1740, - Jacquelyn Carey, Contracting Officer, Phone 301 427-1780, Fax 301 427-1740
- E-Mail Address
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mary.haines@ahrq.hhs.gov, jackie.carey@ahrq.hhs.gov
- Description
- The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) is conducting a market survey to seek potential sources from ALL qualified small business firms (particularly 8(a), Women-Owned, SBA Certified HUBZone and/ or Service Disabled Veteran Owned small Businesses) under North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code 541720 which have the capability to perform the Maintenance and Fielding of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Support - Medical Provider Component (MPC). The Contractor will be responsible for collecting, abstracting, and cleaning data collected from the medical providers for all medical provider types. The Contractor will also be responsible for statistical matching of data from the MEPS-MPC to the MEPS-Household Component (HC) and producing matched data files, including documentation and codebooks. In addition for prescribed medicines, the Contractor will be responsible for statistical and analytical editing and imputation of the data. It is anticipated that the contract will be performance based for a Base period of performance of three and one-half years with three option periods. Each Option period, if exercised, will be for 42 (forty-two) months. The primary objective of the MPC is to collect data from medical providers (hospitals, physicians, home health care agencies, pharmacies, long term health care facilities) on expenditures for medical services provided to MEPS sample persons. MPC data serve as an imputation source for item nonresponse to reduce the level of bias in survey estimates of medical expenditures. It also serves as source of expenditure information on physician charges that are associated with hospital care but not billed by the hospital as well as serving the primary source of expenditure information for Medicaid recipients and prescribed medicines. Offerors must meet requirements of the Pro-Children Act of 1994, Buy American Act, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Privacy Act, Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA), federal policy for the protection of human research subjects (45CFR46) which will include an Institutional Review Board (IRB) review, and the Paperwork Reduction Act. Tasks will revolve around the MEPS-MPC which collects data from all hospitals, emergency rooms, home health care agencies, outpatient departments, long term health care facilities and pharmacies reported by MEPS Household Component (HC) respondents as well as all physicians who provide services for patients in hospitals but bill separately from the hospital. Office-based medical providers where the provider is either a doctor of medicine (MD) or Osteopathy (DO) or practices under the direct supervision of an MD or DO are included in the MPC as well. Long term health care facilities include nursing homes, assisted living facilities, rehabilitation facilities, as well as any health care facility providing medical care to those reporting such care in the HC of the MEPS are also included. Capable offerors must demonstrate they possess comprehensive expertise in data collection, abstraction and coding of medical and billing data from various types of health care providers, as well as extensive statistical expertise and extensive experience in data file development and documentation. Capable offerors responding to this Sources Sought must demonstrate they possess the following capabilities and processes to perform the following tasks: a) implement and document a sample; b) un-duplication within a sample; c) identification of hospital physicians; d) maintenance of survey questionnaires and materials; e) recruit, manage and train data collection staff, abstraction staff, and coding staff; f) data collection from hospitals, hospital identified physicians, office based sample (includes HMOs), agency home health care providers, pharmacies, and long term health care facilities; g) data processing; h) development of security plan; i) forms control and receipt; j) data entry; k) coding and cleaning of data; l) matching data; m) editing and imputation of prescribed medicines data; n) preparation and delivery of internal MPC Files including archival versions of the full operational database and the following medical event files: hospital stays (includes hospital identified physician and their payments and can be identified as such), emergency room visits, outpatient department visits, medical provider visits (includes HMOs), home health care visits, long term care stays (includes assisted living facilities, nursing homes, rehabilitation facilities, etc.), and prescribed medicines. Offeror must also provide an overall plan for coordinating deliverables including data files and materials between the HC and MPC contractors, particularly those occurring concurrently or in a linked manner; integration of data collection methods and processing, as well as data cleaning, data abstraction and matching tasks; the statistical and substantive soundness of the data matching and data editing and imputation (for prescribed drugs only) techniques proposed; quality control; and a plan for addressing innovation and technological advancements and capability to maintain compatibility with industry mechanisms. The MEPS-MPC is to be comprised of core staff of seasoned professionals with education and experience in areas such as data collection from medical care providers of charge and payment, condition, and medical procedures and services data, and; abstraction of medical and billing records; coding of health care data; statistical matching of records; statistical and analytical editing and imputation of prescribed medicines data; health care facilities billing systems and operations; training; and constructing large databases. A PMI-certified Project Manager is required as well as demonstrated ability to provide EVM information. In the event that the MEPS-MPC core staff does not include particular expertise needed to accomplish a particular task, the MEPS-MPC is to obtain such expertise through consultants and/or subcontracts. Interested small businesses should e-mail their capability statements to Mary Haines, Contracting Officer at Mary.Haines@ahrq.hhs.gov no later than 12 noon eastern time on December 3, 2007. Organizations must tailor their capability statement to this request and must include their small business designation (i.e. HUBZone, 8(a), Woman Owned, etc.) on the cover page. NOTE: THIS NOTICE MAY HAVE POSTED ON FEDBIZOPPS ON THE DATE INDICATED IN THE NOTICE ITSELF (16-NOV-2007). IT ACTUALLY APPEARED OR REAPPEARED ON THE FEDBIZOPPS SYSTEM ON 02-JAN-2008, 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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Link to FedBizOpps document.
(http://www.fbo.gov/spg/HHS/AHRQ/DCM/SSAHRQMPC/listing.html)
- Record
- SN01478295-F 20080104/080102225116 (fbodaily.com)
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