Task Order 1 for CDA BPA.doc

TASK NO. 1

Title: National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) Vocabulary Development and Maintenance

SECTION B - SUPPLIES OR SERVICES AND PRICES/COSTS

1 Job

12 months

1 Job

Total

NOTES:

B.1 Payment

Payment will be made after completion, delivery and acceptance by the CDC of specific deliverables/tasks/subtasks identified in the resulting Task Order.* B. 2 Invoices a.

The Contractor shall submit two sets of original invoices to the following addresses:

(1) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

FMO

PO Box 15580

Atlanta, GA 30333

(2) Procurement and Grants Office

Attn: Berta Biltz, Contract Specialist

2920 Brandywine Road

Atlanta, Georgia 30341 b.

When requesting payment, please include the PO No., DUNS No. and Federal Tax Identification No.

*To inquire about payment status, please contact our Financial Management Officer (FMO), block 21 of SF 347, Purchase Order document

Statement of Work/Description of Requirements Task No. 1

STATEMENT OF WORK

SECTION 1.0

1.1 GENERAL

The contractor shall provide all labor, equipment, supplies and services necessary to provide a prioritized schedule, process, and format and provide assistance for the performing of analysis, development and maintenance of vocabulary concepts for the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) application.

1.2 PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE/PLACE OF PERFORMANCE

The period of performance under this Task Order shall be 12 months from date of award. The work performed can be remote with periodic on-site visits to Atlanta* for meeting with the NHSN team. This statement of work consists of completing the tasks in Section 4.0 below.

SECTION 2.0

GOVERNMENT FURNISHED PROPERTY/SERVICES/DATA ETC.

SECTION 3.0

CONTRACTOR FURNISHED CRITICAL ITEMS/SERVICES

The Contractor furnished Unique/Critical Items for this section are contained in Section 4.0 of this SOW.

*Contractor shall estimate at least three trips to Atlanta for one working week each to gather requirements.

SECTION 4.0

CRITICAL TASKS

4.1 The contractor shall provide updates to existing vocabulary and development of new vocabulary:

Maintain all existing CDA schematron and implementation guides as well as Green Clip Pilot in use by NHSN including providing updates, bug fixes or clarifications as necessary. Oversee the transition of our existing Implementation Guides from a Health Level 7 (HL7) status of Draft Standard for Trial Use (DTSO) to fully normative version.

Create or update as necessary the use cases around vocabulary and business rule maintenance in both the NHSN application and CDA efforts both internally as well as externally. Create a business process model for how vocabulary storage, maintenance and distribution should be managed taking into account both our current needs internally and externally as well as our future needs based on the anticipated direction of NHSN. Define a conceptual and logical data model for storage of NHSN vocabularies and business rules based on use cases identified.

Provide 8 x 5 help desk support with a response time of no greater than one business day for CDA issues both for our internal staff as well as external users and vendors.

The contractor shall participate in bi-weekly conference calls with the CDC meeting point of contact(s). Additional conference calls may be scheduled as necessary to ensure effective communication regarding progress.

The contractor shall provide a bi-monthly written status report on current deliverables and activities performed under the contract up to the date of the report.

4.2 Deliverables

Contractor Deliverables and Delivery Schedule.

Note: The deliverables listed above shall be submitted to the Project Officer as in electronic files (MS Word, Excel, etc in a PC/IBM compatible format).

SECTION 5.0

SUBMISSION OF TECHNICAL AND BUSINESS PROPOSALS

5.1 The Technical proposal shall explain in detail How they plan to meet each aspect of the proposed SOW including:

i. Project organization, staffing, and management. Identify clearly the name and position of the person who will provide program direction.

ii. Coordination of consultant and/or subcontractor, if applicable.

iii. Tasks to be performed under the contract and a schedule for their completion.

iv. Explanation of how quality control for all services and tasks proposed for this project will be accomplished and the proposed quality control plan.

5.2 The business proposal shall provide the prices for the tasks being performed on the basis of FFP as follows:

Due: Two months from award date 1 job

Due: Within 3 weeks of award date and ongoing support 12 months

Due: Nine months from award date 1 job

Due: Bi-monthly 24 each

Total

The above table will be used as the payment schedule. When pricing the above items, offerors may propose further breakouts of the tasks into subtasks to further break out and accelerate the frequency of the payments. In so doing, offerors shall propose the deadline for the completion of the subtask. The completion of the subtasks shall agree with the deadline required for completion on the task itself. Payments may be requested once per month upon completion of a specific, agreed upon, deliverable or task rendered to and accepted by the CDC.