75P00119R00252.pdf

75P00119R00252

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IMPORTANT: This is a request for information, and quotations furnished are not offers. If you are unable to quote, please so indicate on this form and return it to the address in Block 5a. This request does not commit the Government to pay any costs incurred in the preparation of the submission of this quotation or to contract for supplies or services. Supplies are of domestic origin unless otherwise indicated by quoter. Any representations and/or certifications attached to this Request for Quotations must be completed by the quoter.

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05/13/2019

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7700 Wisconsin Avenue 8th Floor Bethesda MD 20857

DHHS/PSC/FMP/AMS

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301 492-5577Patrick Hacker

05/24/2019 1300 ET

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Period of Performance: 09/15/2019 to 09/14/2020

1 OWH is seeking even sponsorship opportunities to reach health professionals and health content creators

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STANDARD FORM 18 (REV. 6-95)

Prescribed by GSA - FAR (48 CFR) 53.215-1(a)

Office on Women’s Health Event Sponsorships

Sponsor

The Office on Women’s Health (OWH) in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health, in the Department of Health and Human Services.

Period of Performance

September 15, 2019 – September 14, 2020

Background

The Office on Women's Health (OWH) was established in 1991 within the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). As the focal point for women’s health within HHS, OWH coordinates the efforts of all the HHS agencies and offices involved in women's health. Its vision is to ensure that "All women and girls achieve the best possible health." Its mission is to "provide national leadership and coordination to improve the health of women and girls through policy, education and model programs."

OWH works to redress inequities in research, health care services, and education that historically placed the health of women at risk. OWH promotes women's health through its 4 basic functions.

1. Coordinating and Promoting Collaborations among HHS Agencies and Offices: OWH serves as the coordinating office for women's health initiatives across the agencies of HHS, including the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and other agencies and offices.

2. Providing Information on Research, Prevention and Services to Assist Decision- Makers: OWH convenes and consults with federal departments, the scientific community, professional organizations, and consumer groups to support and advance women's health.

3. Identifying, Developing and Supporting Innovative Programs in Women's Health:

OWH promotes the development and implementation of evidence-based initiatives in academic centers and communities to address the health needs of women across different ages, cultures, races, and ethnic groups, including delivery of care to women and education of health care practitioners about women's health.

4. Educating Health and Wellness Professionals and Consumers: OWH promotes comprehensive health services for women across their lifespan. OWH also supports the development and use of culturally appropriate practices in medical education and research, so all individuals and communities benefit. Through its efforts, OWH brings reliable information on hundreds of health topics to women in every region of America. It also helps consumers, associations, and organizations voice their ideas about the federal government's policies on women's health.

The OWH Health Journalism Fellowship program was established to:

• Increase Visibility for OWH. This fellowship will raise OWH’s visibility among health news reporters, writers, editors, and producers as a source of interesting, reliable, and valuable women’s health information. Participants are exposed some of OWH’s key resources and services, and return to their newsrooms to share this information with their colleagues and fellow journalists.

• Improve Knowledge Dissemination. This fellowship will help more journalists know about the information OWH provides thus opening new dissemination channels to the public. This helps OWH enhance its ability to distribute and promote its health education materials more efficiently. Health and medical journalists also enhance their ability to incorporate more of the Office’s data, programs, and resources into their news reporting and editing.

• Enhance Medical and Scientific Reporting. Through the fellowship, OWH will impact future coverage of health and medicine by helping fellows better understand and obtain evidence-based information on women’s health. Reporters will learn about the office’s priorities and major projects, how to access women’s health information, how to analyze its importance, and then describe its application. The fellows also are exposed to the OWH and other federal women’s health subject matter experts to enable them to identify credible sources to cover women’s health issues.

Synopsis:

The OWH seeks at least 3 sponsorship opportunities for events designed to reach women, girls, health professionals, or media influencers for women and girls. These sponsorships will allow OWH to raise the visibility of its brand, website, and key health issues while creating lasting partnerships with different organizations.

Attending the events will also provide OWH with direct access to different professional audiences (health professionals, social media influencers, journalists, and other creators of health content) as well as business decision makers and ultimately consumers of health information.

By securing these sponsorships, OWH seeks to gain:

• Positive promotion of the OWH brand among those who use and report on health information

• Increased brand awareness by reaching a wider demographic

• Enhanced customer experience through interactions with influencers, reporters and consumers in a positive low stress environment.

• Opportunities for unopposed access to program attendees, including but not limited to special break-out sessions, keynote addresses, and exhibit hall opportunities

Sponsoring these events will enable OWH to have key time and space to address program attendees (e.g. provide keynotes and special sessions) include content in meeting handouts, have content placement in high profile sections of the event or organization’s websites and social media entities) and exhibition space.

The contractor shall demonstrate how it will plan, implement, integrate, and successfully provide each described service or task within the specified period of performance and according to the prescribed timeframe for deliverables.

Description of services

The contractor shall provide all labor, material, equipment and resources to achieve the Objectives as detailed in Specific Tasks and Deliverables below.

The contractor shall be directly responsible for ensuring the accuracy, timeliness and completion of all tasks under this effort. Specifically, the Contractor shall be responsible for the following Tasks:

Task 1: Program Management

a. Within 7 days of award, meet with OWH to outline goals and schedules. This meeting shall initiate the communication process by introducing key task participants and explaining their roles, reviewing communication ground rules, and ensuring a common understanding of subtask requirements and objectives.

b. Conduct regular meetings with OWH to discuss and plan ongoing activities

c. Within 3 days of each meeting provide OWH with notes summarizing the discussion, and outlining next steps to be taken

Task 2: Sponsorship development

a. Work with OWH to develop objectives for sponsorship activities

b. Finalize the details of the sponsorship activities

Task 3: Final report

a. Draft final report summarizing the evaluation of program and annual meeting and lessons learned

b. Finalize report

c. Present findings to OWH

Deliverables

Assumptions:

1. All reports are available in electronic format (Microsoft Word, Adobe PDF, etc).

2. Deliverables to be disseminated to the general public shall comply with Section 508, HHS

Web standards, OMB policies, usability guidelines, and current Federal regulations. These can be found at http://www.hhs.gov/web.

3. All deliverables to be disseminated to the general public shall also comply with OWH style and content guidelines.

http://www.hhs.gov/web

Task Description/Milestone Delivery Date 1.a Report from kick-off meeting Within 3 days of meeting 2.a Objectives for sponsorship activities Within first 90 days of contract 2.b Final details of sponsorship activites TBD 3.a Draft final report of sponsorship activities Within 60 days of activity 3.d Final summary report of activities Within 180 days of activity

Personnel and Contractor Requirements:

The Contractor shall ensure that all personnel assigned to work on the project are qualified to perform the tasks required in this SOW.

Contractor Requirements:

The contractor should:

• Be a membership-based independent, professional development-oriented organization.

• Have membership from diverse local, regional, national, and international organizations within the U.S. and other nations

• Have membership comprised of a range of experience including students, younger, mid-career, and long-term.

• Have a website which includes information on health, wellness, or medical issues and covers organizational services for members

• Have an annual or biennial meeting for its members to educate them on relevant issues including an emphasis on the health issues within the United States.

• Have membership criteria, professional standards, bylaws, statement of principles, conflict of interest policy and fundraising policies that boost the organization’s credibility and stature

• Have experience in working with the Federal Government

Requirement to Notify Government of Proprietary Work Dependencies

Offerors are required to notify the Government in writing of any dependencies of the deliverables under this contract on proprietary, copyrighted, or patented work that potentially inhibits, restricts, or requires permission for the dissemination of the deliverables to the public, other governmental agencies or research groups, or any other parties whatsoever.

Evaluation Criteria The technical proposal will be scored against the evaluation criteria described below. Each factor shall be weighted as shown. The total number of possible points is 100.

Proposals shall be no longer than 20 pages, double-spaced, using 12 point font with 1” margins.

Consideration will be given for clarity, style, and format of the proposal.

1. Technical expertise and approach (30 points):

Describe the proposed approach to meet each of the requirements that the Contractor will be responsible for performing as specified in the tasks in the Statement of Work (SOW).

The proposal is consistent with the stated project purpose. The proposed approach assures that the achievement of timely and satisfactory performance is feasible and reasonable. The proposal demonstrates that the Contractor is willing to commit its resources to successfully fulfilling the requirements of the SOW.

The Contractor proposes realistic timeframes and identifies the chronological sequence by which key activities will occur in order to assure the completion of each task that the Contractor will be responsible for performing.

2. Personnel and staff qualifications (30 points):

The proposed staff should meet the requirements laid out in the “contractor requirements” section of the Statement of Work.

The organization’s staff should have the specific professional background to execute all of the tasks outlined in the statement of work without having to hire external consultants or subcontractors

3. Organizational capabilities/experience (40 points):

Offeror should demonstrate that their organization has the experience and capabilities to meet the requirements laid out in the Statement of Work, including those outlined in the “contractor requirements section”

The offeror should demonstrate the ability to deliver ongoing professional training and development programs for members.

Instructions

All questions/inquiries concerning the solicitation document must be submitted by e-mail (no faxes or telephone calls please) to the Contract Specialist, no later than May 16, 2019, at 1:00PM EST. Questions should be e-mailed to the following address: patrick.hacker@psc.hhs.gov . All e-mail inquiries shall have "Question - 75P00119R00252” included in the subject line.

The proposal must be submitted no later than May 24 2019 at 1:00PM EST. Proposal should be submitted to Patrick Hacker via email at patrick.hacker@psc.hhs.gov mailto:patrick.hacker@psc.hhs.gov mailto:patrick.hacker@psc.hhs.gov