SOURCES SOUGHT
R -- Training, Technical Assistance and Evaluation Support for Implementation of Essentials for Childhood: Safe, Stable, Nurturing Relationships and Environments
- Notice Date
- 2/26/2013
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541720
— Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities
- 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
- 2013-1201
- Archive Date
- 3/27/2013
- Point of Contact
- Abby L. Martin, Phone: 7704883221, Vallerie M Redd, Phone: 770-488-2845
- E-Mail Address
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wzo7@cdc.gov, gfj3@cdc.gov
(wzo7@cdc.gov, gfj3@cdc.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Introduction. This is a Small Business Sources Sought notice. This is NOT a solicitation for proposals, proposal abstracts, or quotations. The purpose of this notice is to obtain information regarding: (1) the availability and capability of qualified small business sources; (2) whether they are small businesses; HUBZone small businesses; service-disabled, veteran-owned small businesses; 8(a) small businesses; veteran-owned small businesses; woman-owned small businesses; or small disadvantaged businesses; and (3) their size classification relative to the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for the proposed acquisition. Your responses to the information requested will assist the Government in determining the appropriate acquisition method, including whether a set-aside is possible. An organization that is not considered a small business under the applicable NAICS code should not submit a response to this notice. The NACIS code for this acquisition is 541720 with a size standard of 500. Background. Child maltreatment (CM) is a significant public health problem affecting physical and emotional health throughout the lifespan. Children who experience intensive and prolonged stress (such as CM) especially in early life, are at increased risk for disrupted early brain development, compromised functioning of the nervous and immune systems as well as health problems in later life including mental health problems, risky health behavior, chronic diseases, subsequent violence perpetration or victimization during adolescence or adulthood, and early death. Given the significant magnitude and health burden of CM, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) designated the prevention of violence against children and youth as a focus area. Additionally, CDC/NCIPC Division of Violence Prevention (DVP) has identified safe, stable, nurturing relationships and environments for children (SSNRs) as a strategic direction for CM prevention. Safety, stability, and nurturing are three essential qualities of children's relationships with caregivers and for a broader environment that supports positive child development. Although the CM prevention field consists of hundreds of prevention interventions, few are evidence based, and the majority focus on changing individual behavior rather than the broader context in which CM occurs. Individual or family approaches do not take into account that CM and safe, stable, nurturing relationships emerge from, and are sustained within, social contexts. These circumstances are shaped by a wider set of forces: economics, social policies, and politics. Thus, there is reason to believe that community and societal-level prevention strategies (e.g., policies, changing broad social norms, and increasing support for evidence-based interventions) may increase safe, stable, nurturing relationships and environments and decrease CM. CDC developed guidance for what communities and society can do to prevent CM and advance SSNRs: Essentials for Childhood: Steps to Create Safe, Stable, and Nurturing Relationships. This guidance document can be accessed at http://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/childmaltreatment/essentials/. Purpose and Objectives. CDC will fund state health departments to implement the Essentials for Childhood (EfC) guidance by utilizing a collective impact framework to develop and support sustainable, multi-sectorial efforts that promote safe, stable nurturing relationships and environments. Efforts must incorporate all four goal areas in Essentials for Childhood: Steps to Create Safe, Stable, Nurturing Relationships. The project will provide training, technical assistance and evaluation activities to assist CDC-funded grantees (state health departments and their child maltreatment prevention partners) to engage a collective impact approach to facilitate full implementation of the EfC guidance. The project will track and monitor key collective impact processes, principles and procedures for programmatic activities within funded states and across the EfC project; will provide opportunities for shared learning among grantees as well as other stakeholders nationally; and will become the foundation to inform future implementation and dissemination guidance for broad adoption of the four EfC goals to support safe, stable, nurturing relationships and environments for children. Project Requirements. The potential requirement will include the following tasks: Base Year - Preparation and Project Activities: a. Develop a work plan to include training and technical assistance activities, and shared learning and program improvement activities for CDC, EfC grantees and child maltreatment prevention partners for the Implementation of Essentials for Childhood using a collective impact approach and addressing all EfC goal areas; b. Conduct training and provide technical assistance to support the work plan's activities; c. Working with CDC staff, create a process to track and monitor key processes, principles and procedures for programmatic activities within and across funded states in order to provide opportunities for shared learning among grantees as well as other stakeholders nationally; d. Using the information, lessons learned and processes collected, share information with CDC and EfC grantees and stakeholders to develop a foundation to inform future implementation and dissemination guidance for broad adoption of EfC goals to support SSNRs for children; e. Review and analyze grantees' collective impact infrastructure, baseline environmental scan, state profile, strategic planning process, action plan and baseline community norms assessment results to identify needs for further training and technical assistance; f. Attend reverse site visit which includes on-site training, technical assistance and participation in evaluation activities for EfC grantees and select partners; and g. Provide monthly telephonic updates and a written annual report to the CDC. Option Years 1 through 4 - Annual Activities: a. Reassess and adjust the work plan using feedback and information collected from the previous year in order to support the project objectives; b. Continue training and providing technical assistance to share identified successes, barriers, and solutions and lessons learned in order to better implement the project; c. Provide continued guidance, monitoring support, evaluation and feedback to CDC and stakeholders throughout the contract; and d. Complete updates as requested by CDC and yearly annual reports. Anticipated period of performance. The period of performance will be one year from date of award with four option years. Other Important Considerations. The work must support the EfC goals of building community and social commitment; using data to inform actions; creating the context for healthy children/families through norms change and programs and through policies. The work must use a collective impact framework for collaboration and partnership among the partners and stakeholders. Capability Statement/Information Sought. PAGE LIMIT 8 PAGES. Interested offerors should submit a capability statement specifically addressing the criteria listed below: a. Your opinion about the difficulty and or feasibility of the potential requirement or proposed acquisition, possible solutions and approaches that may currently exist in the marketplace, and information regarding innovative ideas or concepts; b. Your staff expertise, including your availability, experience, and formal and other training; c. Your current in house capability and capacity to perform the work; d. Your completed projects of similar nature; e. Your corporate experience and management capability. Provide any examples of prior completed Government contracts, reference, and other related information; and f. Provide a rough order of magnitude (estimated cost) of the effort or time that may be required for completion of the work. Information Submission Instructions: Cover page does not count against the page limit for the capability statement. Please include a cover page with the following business information: a. DUNS: b. Organization Name and Address: c. Do you have a Government-approved accounting system? If so, please identify the agency that approved this system. d. Business Size and Type of Business (e. g., small business, 8(a), woman owned, veteran owned, etc.) pursuant to the applicable NAICS code 541720, size standards which are 500 employees. e. Point of Contact, phone, fax and email address of individuals who can verify the demonstrated capabilities identified in the response. f. GSA Schedule. If you are on a GSA Schedule, please provide the schedule number: Page Limitation: Capability Statements shall be limited to EIGHT (8) single-spaced pages including cover page. Pages shall be formatted as follows: MS Word, 8 ½ x 11, 12 pitch, Times New Roman font with one (1) inch margins. Response Due Date: Submit capability statements via email to Abby L. Martin, Contract Specialist at wzo7@cdc.gov. Should you have any questions concerning this sources sought, please direct your questions to the Contracting Specialist Abby L. Martin at wzo7@cdc.gov. Responses must be submitted not later than 10:00 am, Eastern Standard Time (EST) by Tuesday, March 12, 2013. Capability statements will NOT be accepted after the due date. The Government will not return capability statements received. Disclaimer and Important Notes. This notice does not obligate the Government to award a contract or otherwise pay for the information provided in response. The Government reserves the right to use information provided by respondents for any purpose deemed necessary and legally appropriate. Any organization responding to this notice should ensure that its response is complete and sufficiently detailed to allow the Government to determine the organization's qualifications to perform the work. Respondents are advised that the Government is under no obligation to acknowledge receipt of the information received or provide feedback to respondents with respect to any information submitted. After a review of the responses received, a pre-solicitation synopsis and solicitation may be published in Federal Business Opportunities. However, responses to this notice will not be considered adequate responses to a solicitation. Confidentiality. No proprietary, classified, confidential, or sensitive information should be included in your response. The Government reserves the right to use any non-proprietary technical information in any resultant solicitation(s).
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