SPECIAL NOTICE
A -- High School Follow-on Evaluation of CDC’s Dating Matters: Strategies to Promote Healthy Teen RelationshipsTM Initiative
- Notice Date
- 12/18/2012
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 541712
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Procurement and Grants Office (Atlanta), 2920 Brandywine Road, Room 3000, Atlanta, Georgia, 30341-4146
- ZIP Code
- 30341-4146
- Solicitation Number
- BBV9FY130001
- Archive Date
- 1/18/2013
- Point of Contact
- Betty B Vannoy, Phone: 770-488-2891
- E-Mail Address
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bbv9@cdc.gov
(bbv9@cdc.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- NOTICE OF INTENT TO SOLE SOURCE: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Office of Noncommunicable Diseases, Injury and Environmental Health (ONDIEH), National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC), Division of Violence Prevention (DVP), intends to negotiate on a sole source basis to National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago, Bethesda, Maryland, the follow-on research service contract for the continued student participation in the project entitled, "High School Follow-on Evaluation of CDC's Dating Matters: Strategies to Promote Healthy Teen RelationshipsTM Initiative." CDC intends to negotiate this requirement under the authority of FAR 6.302-1, HHSAR 306.302-1, and 41 U.S.C.253(c)(1). The purpose of this project is to continue to monitor the longitudinal effects of the entire initiative on enhancing engagement in healthy dating relationship behaviors and reducing teen dating violence (TDV) victimization and perpetration, including physical, sexual and psychological violence. The anticipated performance period is five years. The associated North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) code for this procurement is 541720 with a small business size standard of $7 million. BACKGROUND: In Fiscal Year (FY) 2009, Congress began providing CDC with funding to address the problem of teen dating violence. With this funding, CDC developed a Dating Matters, which builds on the current evidence base for prevention. The initiative involves 1) school-based, youth-directed curricula, 2) parent-directed components, 3) educator training, 4) communication strategies, 5) policy strategies, and 6) rigorous evaluation. The initiative was designed to increase communities' capacity to sustain implementation of TDV prevention strategies and to sustain the collection and tracking of indicator data over time. In 2011, the Dating Matters initiative funded four cooperative agreements with health departments across the U.S. to implement the multi-component, comprehensive program in middle schools and with families in a metropolitan area determined by the health department (Baltimore City Health Department - Maryland, Chicago Public Health Department - Illinois, Broward County Health Department - Florida, and Alameda County Public Health Department - California). Along with funding the four health departments, the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) was funded to perform the first period of the evaluation research component where they developed a suitable evaluation design, specifically a randomized control trial in which neighborhoods/schools implementing the comprehensive initiative will be compared to neighborhoods/schools implementing an evidence-based TDV prevention program (e.g., standard practice). NORC, along with CDC, determined the ultimate outcomes to be engagement in healthy relationship behaviors, perpetration and victimization of physical, sexual and psychological dating violence, and other intermediate outcomes and mediating variables. In addition, NORC developed an information system that is being utilized to capture all data collected for this evaluation. The follow-on contract is critical to understanding the primary prevention effects of Dating Matters. With the goal of primary prevention of teen dating violence, Dating Matters intervenes with students when they are in middle school, before they begin engaging in really intimate dating relationships, for the purposes of preventing teen dating violence when they really begin dating as they grow older. Therefore, to see the full effects of the Dating Matters initiative, we must continue to survey the students into their high school years, when teen dating violence behaviors are more likely to surface. For example, this contract will enable CDC to better understand the longitudinal effects of a program implemented originally with middle school students on these students' future behaviors in high school. ACQUISITION PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVES The purpose and objective of this acquisition is to fund the evaluation research component of CDC's Dating Matters: Strategies to Promote Healthy Teen Relationships TM (Dating Matters) initiative to determine the longitudinal effects of the entire initiative on reducing teen dating violence (TDV) victimization and perpetration, including physical, sexual and psychological violence. Authority for CDC's National Center for Injury Prevention and Control to collect this data is granted by Section 301 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 241). This act gives federal health agencies, such as CDC, broad authority to collect data and do other public health activities, including this type of study. THE OBJECTIVES ARE: 1. Continued meetings with CDC, the four sites, other CDC contractors, and the school districts involved in the implementation and evaluation. 2. Continued involvement in managing all Institution Review Board protocols (eight total) and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) protocols. 3. Revise IRB and OMB protocols as necessary to follow youth into high school; requires submitting amendments to the proposals and working with each site to determine the most appropriate consent procedures. 4. Using pre-existing relationships, NORC must continue tracking youth who moved on to high school. 5. Complete survey administration and data collection with the same cohort of students (approximately 4,000 youth in each grade) and use the same rigorous methodology. 6. Continued development and maintenance of the information system database that contains all data collected under the current evaluation contract. 7. Continued past student participation and existing proprietary data inventory of ongoing study resolutions. 8. Analysis of data including basic descriptive analyses of group characteristics and more advanced multi-level modeling to examine differences in behaviors for control and intervention students. 9. Followed by the Dating Matters data, a compilation of an online evaluation tool kit that others can use to evaluate their implementation of Dating Matters. 10. Submission of annual project reports and all generated data under the project. The proposed contractor is uniquely qualified to perform these services for the following consideration: a) Access to the longitudinal student cohort studied under the current contract which is critical for ongoing study resolutions. Approximately 4,000 youth in each grade at four separate sites in the USA. b) Time constraints imposed by CDC for target study participants, group data, publications, site reporting, require their continued work on this project. c) The ability to coordinate the transfer of deliverables and datasets from the current contract to the follow-on contract. This initiative was previously advertised under Broad Agency Announcement No. 2011-N-13268. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals. A determination to compete this procurement based on responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. However, responsible sources may express their interest by submitting a capability statement. All responses should be received by January 3, 2013 at 10 AM EST. All responses must be in writing and can be sent via email to bbv9@cdc.gov. No telephone calls will be accepted.
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