The purpose of this modification is to change the response date of this RFP No. NIH-NICHD-DESPR-2007-12 to Monday, May 14, 2007. The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the National Institute of Health intends to solicit proposals with the requisite capabilities to assist with the conduct of two large scale nationally-representative school-based surveys on adolescent health behavior. The current contractor for this project is the CDM Group, Inc. This requirement is defined as code 541720 under the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). The Prevention Research Branch (PRB), an intramural research group of NICHD, conducts research on child and adolescent health behavior. One of the PRB areas of emphasis is assessment of the prevalence and determinants of health behavior among adolescents. Toward this end, the PRB plans to conduct two surveys beginning in the 2009-2010 school year: a cross-sectional national probability survey of U.S. 6th to 10th graders that is also consistent with the requirements of the international Health Behavior in School-aged Children (HBSC) survey; and options for a 4-year longitudinal survey of independent national probability samples of U.S. 11-year-old and 15-year-old students. The U.S. cross-sectional survey requires a probability sample that will permit estimates of population percentages with a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points at the 95% confidence level for each age. The international HBSC survey is conducted among national or regional samples of students at ages 11, 13, and 15 in about 40 countries. Imbedded in the U.S. national sample is a cross-sectional sample for the international HBSC survey which requires at least 1536 youth in each age group and a total of 5000 students. The goal of the cross-sectional HBSC survey is to obtain data about adolescent health behavior and to enable international comparisons by incorporating the mandatory HBSC protocol. The goals of the cross-sectional U.S. survey are to provide health behavior information about adolescents nationally (U.S.-specific protocol) and to make this information available so as to enable improvement of health services and programs for youth. The goals of the U.S. longitudinal survey include: to identify the trajectory of adolescent health behaviors from pre-adolescence through the post high school year; to examine the predictors of the onset of key adolescent risk behaviors during this period; to identify family, school, and social/environmental factors that promote or sustain positive health behaviors; and to identify transition points in health risk behaviors and changes in family, school, and social/environmental precursors to these transitions. Surveys consistent with the cross-sectional HBSC were conducted in the U.S. in 1997-1998, 2001-2002, and 2005-2006. In international comparisons, previous HBSC surveys showed that U.S. 15-year-old youth are less likely to smoke than students in most other countries surveyed, even though 13-year-old US students experiment with tobacco in comparable proportions to youth in other countries. U.S. youth are more likely to be overweight than students in the other HBSC countries. U.S. eating habits were also shown to be less healthy with a comparatively high proportion of youth consuming high fat foods and soft drinks with sugar. Analyses of the U.S. national data set have addressed bullying, unintentional injury, behaviors related to obesity, and utilization of health care. The 2009-2010 U.S. surveys will address health-related factors according to rigorous protocols to be developed by the HBSC by June of 2009, and should also include additional factors and dimensions that are relevant to the U.S. experience. The purpose of this announcement is to inform interested organizations of a planned Request for Proposals (RFP). This announcement is NOT an RFP. It is anticipated that one award of a cost reimbursement, 5 to 6 years incrementally funded completion type contract will be awarded, beginning approximately on September 30, 2007. RFP-NIH-NICHD-DESPR-2007-12 will be available electronically on or about March 16, 2007, with a closing date tentatively set for May 1, 2007 and may be accessed through the FedBizOpps website: www.fbo.gov. Offerors are responsible for routinely checking this web site for any amendments to the solicitation. Any responsible offeror may submit a proposal that will be considered by the Government. This advertisement does not commit the Government to award a contract. Any questions concerning this announcement must be submitted in writing to Alice Pagan, Contract Specialist, at
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