SOURCES SOUGHT
B--B -- Phone Survey
- Notice Date
- 1/5/2007
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- Contracting Office
- Attn: Department of Veterans Affairs Central Arkansas Veterans Health Care System, 2200 Ft. Roots Drive, Building No. 41, Room 201, North Little Rock, Arkansas 72114-1706
- ZIP Code
- 72114-1706
- Solicitation Number
- 598-07-1-177-0011
- Response Due
- 1/12/2007
- Archive Date
- 2/11/2007
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- THIS IS NOT A SOLICITATION ANNOUNCEMENT. THIS IS A SOURCES SOUGHT SYNOPSIS ONLY. THE PURPOSE OF THIS SYNOPSIS IS FOR MARKET RESEARCH PURPOSES AND TO DETERMINE THE EXTENT OF AVAILABLE COMPETITION AMONG SOCIO-ECONOMIC GROUPS. RESPONSES TO ANNOUNCEMENT WILL BE USED BY THE GOVERNMENT TO MAKE APPROPRIATE ACQUISTION DECISIONS-SEE SUBMITTAL REQUIREMENTS BELOW. A SUBSEQUENT SOLICITATION ANNOUNCEMENT MAY FOLLOW. RESPONSES TO THIS ANNOUNCEMENT WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED AS AN ADEQUATE RESPONSE TO THAT ANNOUNCEMENT. ALL INTERESTED OFFERORS MUST RESPOND TO THE SOLICITATION ANNOUNCEMENT IN ADDITION TO RESPONDING TO THIS ANNOUNCEMENT. The United States Department of Veterans Affairs, South Central (VISN 16) Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center (MIRECC), is soliciting inquiries from professional research groups to administer a 45 minute to a one hour telephone-based survey of the effects of Hurricane Katrina on veterans with and without pre-hurricane mental illness. The survey will query 500 veterans in the following domains: demographic information, hurricane stressors, hurricane loss, post-hurricane social support, cognitive appraisal of meaning of reactions to hurricane, current work and social functioning, current common post-disaster mental disorders including post traumatic stress disorder, major depression, gad, and panic disorder. Questions for the survey will be provided by MIRECC. The survey group will be responsible for programming the Computer Assisted Telephone Interview(CATI) and will be required to pretest the CATI instrument over a 2 week period. Advanced-level interviewers with previous experience in fielding sensitive and burdensome instruments with mentally ill populations are required. The survey group must have an in-house telephone center with Computer Assisted Telephone Interview technology and support, with an adequate number of phone stations and adequate supervision of interviewing staff required to conduct calls on weekdays and weekends, in both day-time and evening hours to support the short field period. The survey group must have extensive experience with CATI programming and management, and be able to show ability to insure exceptional response rates, including extensive capability to conduct advanced-level tracking of respondents. All interested parties should submit on company letterhead an indication of the extent of interest to the following address: David Dillinger, 2200 Fort Roots Drive, Bldg 41, Rm 221, North Little Rock, Arkansas 72114 or by e-mail to: David.dillinger@va.gov. No phone calls will be accepted. All Offerors need to identify their socio-economic status, CCR Cage number, and DUNS number in responses. All Offerors must be registered in the Central Contractor Registration database. Offerors may obtain information on registration and annual confirmation requirements via the Internet at www.ccr.gov or by calling 1-888-227-2423 or 269-961-5757. Additionally, to be eligible for contract award a firm must complete annual representation and certifications at http://orca.bpn.gov, and must be current in VETS-100 reporting which can be accomplished at http://www.vets100.cudenver.edu/.
- Place of Performance
- Address: 2200 Fort Roots Drive
- Zip Code: 72114
- Country: United States
- Zip Code: 72114
- Record
- SN01205896-W 20070107/070105220752 (fbodaily.com)
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