R -- Children''s Safety Network Economics and Data Analysis Resource Center

The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) intends to negotiate, on a sole source basis with Pacific Institute for Research Evaluation (PIRE), 11710 Beltsville Drive, Suite 300, Calverton, MD 20705-3102, for a contract for the "Injury and Emergency Medical Services Branch, Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB)." This is a notice of intent, not a request for competitive proposals. The Injury and Emergency Medical Services Branch proposes to contract with Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation (PIRE) for the purposes of providing specific skills building and technical assistance services to State and local maternal and child health agency personnel to help them improve their skills in collecting, analyzing, utilizing analytical data pertaining to injury of children and adolescents including injury reduction intervention strategies. This proposed contract would provide vital support to State and local health and safety personnel by upgrading skills and by performing state and county analyses of injury costs and the savings from injury prevention. PIRE also will develop injury cost and cost savings analyses in support of national MCHB initiatives. Performance of this contract requires the use of two injury cost modeling systems. One is based on what is known as the United States Injury Cost and Consequence File, actually a set of files assembled as a proprietary file by the PIRE's Economic and Insurance Resource Center, funded over a period of years by the public and private sectors. The model has been applied to cost hospital discharge data about injury in more than 20 states. Private funders include Lowe's Home Safety Council, the Packard Foundation, the Joyce Foundation, the National Safety Council, General Motors, and the proposed Contractor from its own funds. Public funders include the HRSA/MCHB, the Centers for Disease Control, the Federal Railroad Administration, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, the Federal Highway Administration, the National Institute on Occupational Safety and Health, the National Institutes of Health and the National Institute of Justice. This file drives a diagnosis-based injury cost model that differentiates the cost of a hospital as compared to non-hospital treatment. The model employs two medical coding systems: the International Classification of Diseases and a Two-Column Diagnosis Coding System. The decision to award the contract to PIRE is because the work that is to be performed requires the use of proprietary software to collapse other diagnosis systems into one of these two described systems. The proprietary software also customizes the cost of treatment to the age and gender of the victim. For hospitalized cases it uses information that is know about the victim in the incident data set (e.g., length of a stay, payments for treatment). The system models three dimensions of cost: medical payments, other direct and indirect costs and quality adjusted life years lost to the injury. Therefore, the Government has determined that PIRE is the only responsible source having the experience and expertise necessary to provide the work and services required under the authority of 41 U.S.C. 253(c)(1), as set forth in FAR 6.302-1(b)(1)(i). This is not a solicitation. A copy of the Justification for Other than Full and Open Competition is on file. The contact person for this acquisition is: Frantz Y. Richard, Contracting Officer, Division of Procurement Management (DPM), OMPS/HRSA, Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, Room 13A-19, Rockville, MD 20857-5600; phone number +1 (555) 000-0000; FAX +1 (555) 000-0000. The electronic mailing address is: contact@example.gov. See note 22.