Behavioral Intervention Weight Loss
Disclaimer and Important Notes: This is a Request for Information (RFI) from interested vendors and is issued solely for informational and planning purposes. This is not a Request for Proposals or a Request for Quotations, and it is not considered to be a commitment by the Government to award a contract/order nor is the Government responsible for any costs incurred in furnishing information provided under this RFI. No basis for claim against the Government shall arise as a result from a response to this RFI or Government use of any information provided. Further, the Coast Guard is not seeking proposals and will not accept unsolicited proposals at this time. No proprietary, classified, confidential, or sensitive information should be included in your response to this RFI. The Government reserves the right to use any information provided by respondents for any purpose deemed necessary and legally appropriate, including using technical information provided by respondents in any resultant solicitation. Responses will assist the Government in determining the availability of potential solutions and commercial products in the market. At this time, no solicitation exists; therefore, Do Not Request a Copy of the Solicitation. Requirement: Based on the 2015 DoD Health Related Behaviors (HRB) Survey, 67.8 % of Active Duty (AD) Coast Guard members were overweight or obese according to Body Mass Index measurements. Although not published, the 2018 HRB data shows a similar trend of 66% of AD members and 67% of Reservists as overweight or obese. Due to a variety of factors, including the current pandemic, Coast Guard members have become increasingly overweight and obese. Although our frequency and duration of exercise has increased, so has our waistlines. Many Americans choose to eat high caloric foods with limited nutritional value. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recently released an updated clinical preventive service recommendation: Weight Loss to Prevent Obesity-Related Morbidity and Mortality in Adults: Behavioral Interventions. It recommends that “clinicians offer or refer adults with a BMI of 30 or higher to intensive, multicomponent behavioral interventions that help people make healthy eating choices, encourage increased physical activity, and help people monitor their own weight.” The durability of any behavioral interventions requires systemic sustainment tough timely and effective interventions. Coast Guard members have a Maximum Allowable Weight (MAW) standard based upon a BMI of 27.5 (a value deemed overweight by CDC). Therefore members may choose to gain insight into their relationship with food and better weight management before breaching a BMI of 30. The purpose of the RFI is to seek the availability of Contractors that can provide such multicomponent, evidence based behavioral modification service that has a positive influence on physical activity, weight management, and beneficial food choices for United States Coast Guard (CG) active duty service members and all Selected Reservists, hereafter called “members”. Services shall be easily accessible, flexible, innovative, interactive, and include confidential, toll free, telephonic and virtual behavioral modification that specializes in weight management coaching and supportive services. The service provider shall assist the service member implementing effective behaviorally based methodologies that leverage electronic, mobile, and telehealth resources to provide education, assess participants’ relevant diet and weight information, physical activity, along with providing support, as well as, timely positive reinforcement. The service provider shall ensure that services are, at a minimum, available via mobile platform to allow for maximum accessibility to members. Contractor services will provide screening and assessment of readiness to change; personalized coaching and advice; supportive materials; nutrition coaching, and lifestyle behavior change planning. Contractor will assist the CG with data collection and reporting to determine the success of the program. The selected tool must provide monthly and quarterly reports that assess a member’s weight, exercise, nutrition, sleep patterns and responsiveness to behavioral queues. The Contractor shall use their database in order to provide demographic and service delivery data to assist the CG in the evaluation of the behavioral intervention program. The CG needs accurately tabulated demographic, service delivery, referral, client satisfaction and caller characteristic dated. The database must also record and maintain weight maintenance data at monthly intervals. Management outcomes, client satisfaction, and other data elements determined in evaluation plan for all weight management intervention program must be included in the capabilities draft. Behavioral intervention with a goal of weight loss is based on the concept that people have learned unhealthy behaviors, such as poor diet habits and inactivity, which play a role in weight gain. Contractor provided interventions must focus on changing these behaviors in the areas of: Improve diet and increase physical activity Set realistic goals Self-monitor with tools like pedometers, food diaries and scales Identify weight-loss challenges Develop problem-solving techniques to overcome those challenges Control or eliminate the factors that trigger unhealthy eating or problematic behaviors Build strategies to maintain your weight loss over time The Government will have unlimited right to the use, replication, and distribution of all toll-free telephonic and web site documentation, protocols, scripts, programming and any and all other features, procedures processes and all data collected, developed and derived as a result of the contract. The Contractor shall have a Medical Director, Registered Dietician or other medical personnel providing oversight to contractor intake, and coaching staff should possess certain levels of experience. A medical Director or Other Medical Personnel should possess a minimum of tee years of experiences in treating overweight and obesity. All medical personnel responsible for providing training coaching staff have a health care related degree which demonstrates intensive training with specific training in nutrition and weight management (physicians and physician assistant, or licensed nurse practitioner). A Registered Dietician providing oversight to coaching staff must be licensed by an accredited institution and should possess a minimum of two years’ experience. Submission of Information: Interested parties are encouraged to submit an RFI response which supports the company's claim that it presently has the technology, qualifications, experience, and capabilities to satisfy the requirements. Specifically, interested parties are requested to provide the following information: Name of Company, DUNS number and CAGE Code number Point of contact - name, phone number and e-mail address Size of Business according to North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code 812191. A positive statement of your company’s interest in this procurement as a prime contractor. An overview of the company’s capability in providing multicomponent, evidence based weight management and behavioral modification services for United States Coast Guard (CG) active duty service members. Provide the company’s capability/experience protecting Personal Identifiable Information. Provide the company’s capability/experience interfacing with Government’s systems. RFI responses must be no longer than 10 pages in length. Submit your response(s) electronically to Heather A. Weaver at Heather.A.Weaver@uscg.mil and to Clenton A. Shanks at Clenton.a.shanks@uscg.mil. Total combined file sizes cannot be more than 10MB total per e-mail. Zip files shall not be submitted. RFI responses are due January 23, 2020 at 12:00PM, Eastern. Upon receiving RFI responses, the Coast Guard will assess all feedback and its impact on the development of the final acquisition strategy to meet the Government’s requirements.
70Z02321BEHAVIORA Department of Homeland Security US Coast Guard
12/23/20, 10:58 AM U099--Healthy Kitchen Teaching Pilot Program (VA-23-00039714)
This is a Sources Sought notice only. This is not a request for quotes and no contract will be awarded from this announcement. The Government will not provide any reimbursement for responses submitted in response to this Source Sought notice. Respondents will not be notified of the results of the evaluation. If a solicitation is issued it shall be announced at a later date, and all interest parties must response to that solicitation announcement separately. Responses to this notice are not a request to be added to a prospective bidders list or to receive a copy of the solicitation The purpose of this announcement is to perform market research to gain knowledge of potential qualified sources and their size classification relative to NAICS 812191, (8940) with a size standard $24 Million. The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Network Contracting Office 1 (NCO 1) is seeking to identify any vendor capable of providing Healthy Teaching Kitchen (live dietitian in your kitchen) at the West Haven VAMCA per the (Performance Work Statement)A below. This Sources Sought notice provides an opportunity for respondents to submit their capability and availability to provide the requirement described below. Vendors are encouraged to submit information relative to their capabilities to fulfill this requirement, in the form of a statement that addresses the specific requirement identified in this Sources Sought. Information received from this Sources Sought shall be utilized to facilitate the Contracting Officer s review of the market base, for acquisition planning, size determination, and procurement strategy. Submission Instructions: Interested parties who consider themselves qualified to perform the services are invited to submit a response to this Sources Sought Notice by 17:00 EST, 03-02-2023All responses under this Sources Sought Notice must be emailed to Nathan.Langone@va.gov with RFQ #36C24123Q0408 in the subject line. Telephone inquiries will not be accepted or acknowledged, and no feedback or evaluations will be provided to companies regarding their submissions. Interested parties should complete the attached Sources Sought Worksheet. Parties may submit additional information related to their capabilities, provided it contains all the requirements contained in the Sources Sought Worksheet. Responses to this Sources Sought shall not exceed 8 pages. In addition, all submissions should be provided electronically in a Microsoft Word or Adobe PDF format.
36C24123Q0408 Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration Veterans Integrated Service Network 1
2/23/23, 3:28 PM USCG HSWL Behavioral Modification Services Support
Greetings Interested Vendors, The United States Coast Guard has a requirement to obtain behavioral modification services and support for its uniformed personnel. These services would support healthy weight management, healthy food choices, counseling, and other support for our uniformed personnel in accordance with the attached, draft, performance work statement (PWS). We are seeking commercial sources who have these capabilities to meet the full attached requirement. In addition to the attached PWS, the following information is requested from responding vendors: The NAICS is currently being determined among 541720, 812990 and 812191. 1) Does your product/services provide an APP for use on cell phone/smart devices? 2) The application/web sites/etc used to host and store USCG member data requires cybersecurity protection. The hosting environment must be Department of Defense (DOD) approved and certified to Impact Level 4, as identified in DOD Instruction 8510.01 (dated March 12, 2014 with incorporated change 3 dated December 29, 2020) and the DOD Cloud Computing Security Requirements Guide? FedRAMP High certification is also acceptable, but will require IT sponsorship to obtain DOD IL-4 certification and USCG Authority to Operate (ATO). Will your company meet these qualifications and/or be willing to engage in the ATO certification process? 3) Does your services/product currently have an ATO from DOD, or DHS, for use with sensitive but unclassified personally identifiable information (SPII) or DOD CUI (Critical Unclassified Information)? If so, can you provide a copy with your response? 4) Is your company currently registered in SAM.gov (www.SAM.gov) – required to do business with the federal government? If so, what is your DUNS Unique Entity ID # or your SAM Unique Entity ID #? 5) If not in SAM.gov, would you be willing to register to compete for a federal government award? 6) Have you previously performed work under federal government contracts? If so, please list the contract number, services/supply description, contract period and amount, and a current point of contact. 7) With your response, please include a capabilities statement tailored to the requirement. 8) What is your business size (according to the SBA and/or self-certification), to include any socio-economic category (8a, woman owned small business, etc?
USCG_HSWL_Behavioral_Modification Department of Homeland Security US Coast Guard
7/7/21, 7:55 AM