R -- NATIONAL MEASURES CLEARINGHOUSE

Notice Date

April 25, 2001

Contracting Office

Department of Health and Human Services, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Division of Contracts Management, 2101 East Jefferson Street, Suite 601, Rockville, MD, 20852

ZIP Code

20852

Solicitation Number

AHRQ-01-0006

Point of Contact

Mary Haines, Contracting Officer, Phone 301 594-7193, Fax 301 443-7523, Email mhaines@ahrq.gov

E-Mail Address

Mary Haines (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 contract to carry out the development, implementation, and maintenance of an Internet-based project that focuses on quality measures. The project purpose is to 1) establish and maintain an Internet-based National Measures Clearinghouse_ (NMC) containing detailed information on quality measures; 2) design, develop, and maintain a database backbone that will house the NMC as one module and be expandable to include additional AHRQ clinical tools such as the National Guideline Clearinghouse_ in subsequent modules; 3) provide appropriate and timely technical assistance to NMC users; and 4) provide integration between different Internet-based AHRQ clinical information and decision module tools. The project will involve the recruitment and use of a Panel of Experts who represent public and private expertise in quality measurement research, health informatics, and the application of quality measures in real world settings across a variety of levels of care and provider types. In addition, the project will involve developing attributes of measures and their definitions, building on work already documented in the field of measurement including but not limited to work done by Foundation for Accountability (FACCT), Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO), National Commission for Quality Assurance (NCQA), American Medical Association (AMA), which will be used to characterize the measures included in the NMC. Sources must have knowledge of and in-depth experience with quality measures, their development and application; health services research; reference terminologies and their application; analyses of complex clinical information; data base modeling and development; development, implementation, and support of Internet-based systems; and managing complex demanding projects. Sources must also posses, or be able to obtain (in-house or through subcontracting/consulting arrangements) the staff and other resources needed to expeditiously carry out the different types of activities listed. Sources must describe experience with and using quality measures and their capability to provide technical assistance to users of NMC. It is estimated that the solicitation will be available approximately 15 days after this notice is published, with proposals due approximately 45 days thereafter. The solicitation and any documents related to this procurement will only be available by downloading from the Internet on AHRQ's Internet site at http://www.ahrq.gov. It is the offeror's responsibility to monitor the Internet site for the release of the solicitation and any subsequent amendments. Potential offerors will be responsible for downloading their own copy of the solicitation and amendments. Since we will not know who is downloading the solicitation, no bidders list will be available.

Web Link

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Record

Loren Data Corp. 20010427/RSOL001.HTM (D-115 SN50K2D5)