SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- Evidence-based Technical Assistance for Multi-stakeholder, Community-based Quality Collaboratives
- Notice Date
- 12/1/2008
- Notice Type
- Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
- NAICS
- 541611
— Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Contracts Management, 540 Gaither Road, Rockville, Maryland, 20850
- ZIP Code
- 20850
- Solicitation Number
- AHRQ-2008-10008
- Response Due
- 12/15/2008
- Point of Contact
- Jessica Alderton, Phone: 301 427-1783
- E-Mail Address
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jessica.alderton@ahrq.hhs.gov
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is soliciting proposals for an Evidence-based Technical Assistance Learning Network for Multi-stakeholder, Community-based Quality Collaboratives, or more specifically, Chartered Value Exchanges (CVEs). The CVEs are tasked with measuring and reporting on physician or hospital practice in a meaningful and transparent way to influence value-based decision-making by consumers and purchasers of health care. The Learning Network will support 24 (and possibly more) CVE teams, each of which includes representatives from four stakeholder groups: providers, purchasers, health plans and consumer organizations as well as other local stakeholders. Technical assistance priorities are 100% driven by needs of the collaboratives, identified informally and formally by discussions with the collaboratives, and prioritized in partnership with Agency staff. This contract will focus on demand-driven, practical, applied topics that are of direct, practical interest to collaborative teams. A wide range of technical and practical topics will be covered. Topics will include but are not limited to: 1) Collaborative Leadership and CVE Sustainability; 2) Public at-large Engagement; 3) Data Aggregation and Quality and Efficiency Measurement; 4) Public Reporting on Quality and Efficiency; 5) Provider Incentives for Quality; 6) Consumer Incentives for Quality; 7) Cross-organizational Capacity for Improving Quality; and 8) Health Information Technology. Under this contract, tasks will address a variety of assignments, including: administrative and planning activities, maintaining and updating private web site for CVEs, convening webinar series, convening two in-person meetings per year for roughly 175 persons each and convening workgroups on standard report elements. Offerors are expected to have experience in managing distance learning programs, ie, Webinar and website-based learning, large technical conferences, and topic-specific, time-limited workgroups. Offeror is required to have its worksite be within 100 mile radius of Agency. The Project Director must demonstrate specific expertise in data aggregation and quality and efficiency measurement, and public reporting on quality and efficiency. The Project Director also must demonstrate experience with and ability to: 1) Manage a distance learning program with Web site and Webinar components; 2) Plan and implement meetings for 150-200 persons; 3) Successfully, simultaneously juggle multiple, complex tasks, without losing site of the big picture or of planning details; 4) Maintain flexibility, i.e., to quickly regroup in order to address emerging collaborative issue or respond to Agency or collaboratives’ imperatives; 5) Identify and access seasoned professionals with extensive knowledge of evidence base and best practices across the 8 focus areas; 6) Review and critique technical documents (including slide presentations) to ensure they conform to evidence base; 7) Summarize essence of technical material such that it is readily understandable by lay audience; 8) Understand research such rigorous findings can be discerned from less rigorous findings; 9) Use a range of communication venues and management techniques to lead a successful and dynamic Learning Network; 10) Evaluate program success on an ongoing basis, and continuously improve. Project Director will be required to be on-site at AHRQ in Rockville, MD at least 20 hours per week. It is anticipated that 1 contract will be award for a period of 1 year with 4 one year option periods. Award is expected no later than April 15, 2009. In addition to the solicitation be available on this site, it also will be available for downloading from the internet on AHRQ’s website at www.ahrq.gov. It is the Offerors responsibility to monitor this site for release of the solicitation, download their own copy of the solicitation, and monitor the site for any subsequent amendments. Since it is not known who is downloading the solicitation, a bidders’ list will not be available. All responsible businesses may submit a proposal, which will be evaluated by AHRQ. It is estimated that the solicitation will be issue on or about December 15, 2008, with proposals due 60 days thereafter.
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