CISS Injury Coding

Action Code: Sources Sought/ (Second Notice with Revised NAICS Code) Classification Code: Q601, Medical Coding and Auditing Solicitation: 693JJ919RQ000087 Agency/Office: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) Location: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration HQ NAICS Code: 541715, Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences, 1,000 Employees. Point of Contract: Vincent Lynch, Contracting Officer, ph(202) 366-9568 Title: CISS Injury Coding Description(s): The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is issuing this Sources Sought Notice to identify potential qualified Small Business (SB), Small Disadvantaged Business (SDB), 8(a) Certified SDB, HUBZone SB, SDVOSB, or WOSB concerns that may be interested in and capable of performing the work described herein to provide nationally representative traffic crash data on a timely basis. The data generated in these studies will provide the impact biomechanics and automobile safety community with highly-detailed field-based data that can support trend analysis and research related to advanced dummies and models, injury criteria, restraint performance, and vehicle design. This data collection and analysis activity helps to provide the scientific basis needed to support the agency's motor vehicle and traffic safety goals. In addition to supporting internal NHTSA efforts, NHTSA-sponsored research provides high-quality publicly-accessible data that serves as the basis for countless other research endeavors. NHTSA welcomes all qualified Small Business concerns, with the appropriate NAICS Code and past experience to submit their Corporate Capability Statements that demonstrate their ability to successfully accomplish the goals of the project as listed below. NHTSA does not intend to award a contract on the basis of responses to this notice or otherwise pay for the preparation of any information submitted. Acknowledgement of receipt of responses will not be made; no formal evaluation of the information received will be conducted by NHTSA. NHTSA may; however later on issue a Request for Proposals (RFP). However, should such a requirement fail to materialize, no basis for claims against NHTSA shall arise as a result of a response to this notice. Background: The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's (NHTSA) mission is to save lives, prevent injuries, and reduce traffic-related health care and other economic costs. NHTSA's various data systems are the only source of real-world crash data for conducting basic research, identifying problem areas, developing effective countermeasures, identifying program and rulemaking needs, developing and evaluating programs, rules, and standards, evaluating new technologies, and providing information to accurately assess and allocate grants for reducing crashes. In the late 1970s, NHTSA's National Center for Statistics and Analysis (NCSA) devised a multidisciplinary approach to meet the data needs of our end users that utilizes an efficient combination of census, sample-based, and existing State files to provide nationally representative traffic crash data on a timely basis. NHTSA's NCSA operates data programs consisting of records-based systems (crash records recoded for uniformity) which include the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) and the Crash Report Sampling System (CRSS); and detailed crash investigation-based systems which include the Crash Investigation Sampling System (CISS) and the Special Crash Investigations (SCI) program. Objective: The objective of this contract is to provide timely, efficient, and effective support to NHTSA, and its partners, in the management of the NHTSA Crash Data System (CDS). The activities in this Contract include assignment of injury codes and injury causation scenarios as well as medical record storage to support NHTSA's Crash Investigation Sampling System (CISS). This procurement will provide for injury interpretation and code assignment, injury causation, and medical record storage of crash data collected at thirty-two sites. Format of Corporate Capabilities Statement: This notice is being reposted a second time for public notification of the Government's decision after assessment of the originally assigned NAICS code of 541910, Marketing Research and Public Opinion Polling needing to be changed to 541715, Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences; which more accurately describes the work under this project. Any interested qualified Small Business firms, Small Disadvantaged Business (SDB), 8(a) Certified SDB, HUBZone SB, SDVOSB, or WOSB concerns should submit their Corporate Capability Statement, which demonstrates the firm's ability and past experience in no more than 10 pages to perform the key requirements described above to the identified NHTSA point of contact listed herein. Any proprietary information should be marked as such. All respondents are asked to certify the type and size of their business organization is in-line with the requirements of this Sources Sought Notice, and must be received no later than 5 calendar days from the date of publication of this notice.