Sustainability Assesment Tool and User Guide Support Services

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP), Office on Smoking and Health (OSH) intends to award a sole source firm-fixed price contract to Washington University at St. Louis for Program Sustainability Assesment Tool and User Guide Support Services. Washington University at St. Louis's address is One Brookings Drive, St Louis, Missouri 63130-4862. The statutory authority for this sole source acquisition is 10 U.S.C. 2304 (c) (1) in accordance with FAR Part 6.302-1- Only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy the agency requirement. The NAICS Code for this procurement is 541990 (All Other Professional, Scientific an Professional Services). The Size Standard is $16.5 Million dollars. The purpose of this acquisition is to provide Program Sustainability Assessment Tool and User Guide Support Services to Centers for Disease Control's (CDC) Office on Smoking and Health. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Office on Smoking and Health (OSH) provides funding, guidance, and technical support to health departments in all 50 states, the District of Columbia (DC) and 8 U.S. territories/jurisdictions; eight national networks; and 26 tribes/tribal organizations. Collectively, these organizations are referred to as the National Tobacco Control Program (NTCP). This program is authorized under section 317(k)(2) of the Public Health Service Act, 42 U.S.C. 247b(k)(2), Comprehensive Smoking Education Act of 1984, and Comprehensive Smokeless Tobacco Health Education Act of 1986. There are four national public health goals the NTCP are striving to achieve. These are: Prevent initiation of tobacco use among youth and young adults; Promote quitting among adults and youth; Eliminate exposure to secondhand smoke; Identify and eliminate tobacco-related disparities among population populations. In order to achieve these four national goals, CDC's Best Practices - 2014 recommends that states establish and sustain comprehensive tobacco control programs that contain the following overarching components to reduce tobacco use, exposure to SHS, tobacco related disparities, and associated disease, disability, and death: State and community interventions, Mass-reach health communication interventions, Cessation interventions, Surveillance and evaluation, Infrastructure, administration and management. OSH has supported efforts to build state health department infrastructure and capacity to implement comprehensive tobacco control programs (NTCP). Program sustainability is an important component in not only sustaining activities and tobacco control program infrastructure, it is also needed to build partnerships, promote related initiatives, and repurpose existing resources through better alignment and collaboration of complementary activities and resources. To ensure program sustainability a contractor is needed to: (1) update and enhance an instrument (Program Sustainability Assessment Tool) to help assess infrastructure and resources necessary to sustain an effective state-based comprehensive tobacco control program, (2) Provide training to NTCP using the updated Program Sustainability Assessment instrument (3) continue the development of a series of - how to guides (User Guides) implementing CDC's Best Practice component areas and other areas of tobacco control as required under OSH cooperative agreements with NTCP awardees, and (4) update existing User Guides with current information that support the CDC's Best Practice component areas and other areas of tobacco control. The Sustainability Tool will help State and Territorial awardees sustain infrastructure and resources necessary to maintain effective comprehensive tobacco control health programs. The User Guides will help awardees, programs, decision makers and managers understand the rationale for implementing specific science-based interventions and activities intended to prevent and stop the use of tobacco. Both tools will be used by NTCP awardees to sustain, maintain, implement, intervene, and evaluate components of the tobacco control program model. It is logical that these tasks, enhancing the Sustainability Tool and developing the next generation of User Guides series, reside together with Washington University at St. Louis who has completed earlier guides and has developed the expertise and infrastructure to provide the products that CDC and awardees need. OSH requires contractor support services to continue to expand the use and applications of the Sustainability Tool and Framework and to complete the development of the next generation of Tobacco Control User Guides. Washington University at St. Louis is the only contractor capable of meeting these requirements. No solicitation will be posted to Beta.SAM. We will only issue a solicitation to Washington University at St. Louis. Washington University at St. Louis is the only source available to provide the services that meets OSH's mission critical requirements. This notice of intent is not a request for proposal. A determination to compete this procurement based on response to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Contracting Officer. Interested parties who believe they possess the capability to satisfy this requirement should submit a capability statement demonstrating their ability to meet this requirement. All responses must be sent in writing to Mr. Tim Williams via email to TLWilliams3@cdc.gov using solicitation number 75D301-20-R-68063 in the subject line, no later than 7:00am Eastern Time, July 23, 2020.