SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC) and the National Quality Measures Clearinghouse (NQMC)
- Notice Date
- 12/6/2012
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 541990
— All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical 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-13-10003
- Point of Contact
- Erin B. Mills, Phone: 3014271169, Jessica Alderton, Phone: 301 427-1783
- E-Mail Address
-
Erin.Mills@ahrq.hhs.gov, jessica.alderton@ahrq.hhs.gov
(Erin.Mills@ahrq.hhs.gov, 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 will be soliciting proposals for a contract to migrate, operate, maintain and enhance the AHRQ National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC) and National Quality Measures Clearinghouse (NQMC) resources, http://www.guideline.gov/ and http://www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/. AHRQ is the lead Federal agency charged with improving the quality, safety, effectiveness, and efficiency of health care. AHRQ sponsors and conducts research that provides evidence-based information about health care outcomes, quality, cost, use, and access. In addition, AHRQ is committed to preparing and deploying tools and materials that help our key target audiences understand how to put research findings and related products into practice. Equally important, AHRQ supports initiatives that disseminate and help move research into practice. As a result, health care decisionmakers are able to make informed decisions that improve the quality of health care services. The NGC and NQMC are Internet-based tools for the collection, classification, and dissemination of evidence-based clinical practice guideline and health care quality measures, measure sets, and related information. These repositories are searchable databases of catalogued and indexed evidence-based clinical practice guidelines and quality measures meeting explicit criteria, presented in a standardized fashion that facilitates comparisons and informed decisionmaking. The goal of the NGC and the NQMC is to provide physicians, nurses, and other health professionals; health care providers; health plans; integrated delivery systems; purchasers and others an accessible mechanism for obtaining objective, detailed information on clinical practice guidelines and quality measures, respectively, and to further their dissemination, implementation and use in informed health care decision making. The NGC and NQMC will be also be addressing implementation of stricter inclusion criteria, thereby raising the evidence bar to assure that guidelines and measures represented in the Clearinghouses have been developed using more robust methodology. In addition, the NGC will be implementing the Institute of Medicine's recommendation that NGC indicate the extent to which guidelines adhere to the standards for developing trustworthy guidelines. Purpose and Objectives While there are IT components in this project, this is not an IT requirement. The project is content-driven supported by information technology. The objectives of this project are to:  Develop, publish, update and archive content for NGC and NQMC (including HHS Measure Inventory as applicable), meeting production and quality goals  Enhance content, presentation, and process, being responsive to shifts in landscape and user requirements  Provide timely technical assistance to NGC and NQMC users  Report on NGC and NQMC user experience  Support content and project management efforts with information technology in accordance with regulatory, process and change controls, and stated requirements  Maintain a modern software and hardware technical infrastructure  Manage the project effectively, efficiently, and in accordance with requirements AHRQ anticipates awarding one contract under this solicitation, for a period of one base year and four 1-year option periods. The Government is under no obligation to exercise the options either at award or at a later date.
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