Request for Proposals
Solicitation No. AHRQ-02-0010 (Full and Open Competition, with recommended
small business goals)
Proposals Due: June 7, 2002, 12 Noon (Eastern Standard Time)
Contracting Office: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Division of
Contracts Management, 2101 East Jefferson Street, Suite 502, Rockville, MD
20852
The synopsis for this requirement was published in the FedBizOpps (http://www.fedbizopps.gov/) on April 5,
2002 under the title, "Patient Safety Program Evaluation Center." The
solicitation issue date is April 26, 2002. Select for Downloading
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It is anticipated that a cost reimbursement contract award will be made under
this solicitation for a four-year period of performance with one two-year option
(option length revised).
Background and Purpose
The objective of this contract is to establish a patient safety program
evaluation center that shall:
- Develop and implement an overall evaluation plan for patient safety
projects funded by AHRQ consistent with Agency requirements, GPRA (Government
Performance Results Act) requirements, initiative intents, and Congressional
mandates.
- Develop baseline patient safety evaluation measures for determining
context and antecedent conditions existing prior to initiation or at the
beginning of implementation of AHRQ's patient safety research initiative.
- Utilize formative evaluation procedures, monitor progress at meeting
initiative intents and objects and make recommendations for improvement.
- Assess overall initiative impacts, outcomes, and adoption diffusion using
both qualitative and quantitative assessment approaches.
- Document and prepare evaluation reports to various audiences and
stakeholders indicating the results of AHRQ's funded patient safety research
and project activities.
The purpose of this contract is to support an external evaluation center that
shall design and coordinate the evaluation of the various components of the
Agency's patient safety initiative. There are 94 individually funded projects to
be included in the program evaluation activity of the center. Additional grants
and contracts will be awarded during fiscal years '02, '03, and '04 that will be
considered as part of the patient safety initiative. The evaluation center shall
provide overall evaluation of the AHRQ patient safety initiative and collect and
analyze evaluation data generated by various grants. The program evaluation
center shall coordinate evaluation activities with other activities of a
separately funded patient safety research coordination center. Specifically, the
evaluation center shall support the Agency's work with grantees related to
program evaluation including instrument development and data analysis. The
evaluation center shall also produce products (e.g., instruments and other
evaluation measures and develop databases) that shall facilitate work on patient
safety by researchers and policymakers (particularly at the state level). The
evaluation center shall also create useful measures of patient safety that have
the potential to serve as patient safety quality indicators that may be used as
part of the National Quality Report.
Please Note this Special Eligibility Notice:
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Principal Investigators and Co-Principal Investigators of grants awarded
under the RFAs listed below are ineligible to participate as part of the
Program Evaluation Center proposal.
- RFA HS-01-002: Centers of Excellence for Patient Safety Research and
Practice.
- RFA HS-01-003: Improving Patient Safety: Health Systems Reporting,
Analysis, and Safety Improvement Research and Demonstrations.
- RFA HS-01-006: Clinical Informatics to Promote Patient Safety.
- RFA HS-01-007: Developmental Centers for Evaluation and Research in
Patient Safety.
- RFA HS-01-008: Patient Safety Research Dissemination and
Education.
- RFA HS-00-007: Systems-related Best Practices to Improve Patient
Safety.
Organizations and institutions (including their subcontractors) being
awarded grant(s) under the above RFAs may be a prime or subcontractor on a
proposal for this procurement (Patient Safety Program Evaluation Center).
Organizations and agencies currently under contract to AHRQ for patient
safety related research activity are ineligible to participate as part of the
Patient Safety Program Evaluation Center Proposal. These contracts
include:
- The Patient Safety Research Coordination Center, Westat.
- The Patient Safety Task Force Implementation Planning Study, MEDSTAT.
- Patient Safety Data Guidance, Institute of Medicine (IOM).
- Patient Safety Measures, KPMG Consulting, LLC.
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Principal Investigators and Co-Principal Investigators of grants awarded
under RFA HS-01-005: The Effect of Health Care Working Conditions on
Quality of Care, that focus on patient safety rather than more generally
on quality of care are ineligible to participate as part of a Program
Evaluation Center proposal. Organizations and agencies including their
subcontractors awarded grants that focus on patient safety under the above
listed RFA may be a prime or a subcontractor for this procurement (Patient
Safety Program Evaluation Center).
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Current as of May 2002
Internet Citation:
Patient Safety Program Evaluation Center. Request for
Proposals. May 2002. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD.
http://www.ahrq.gov/fund/contarchive/rfp02010.htm
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