IHS Clinical Support Center Joint Accreditation Annual Fee

STATEMENT OF WORK

1.0 Statement of Work (SOW):

1.1 Introduction and Background

The purpose of this requirement is to provide payment of the IHS Clinical Support Centers (CSC) Joint Accreditation annual and reaccreditation fees for calendar year 2025 and 4 optional years. This requirement is to maintain accredited provider status with the Joint Accreditation for Interprofessional Continuing Education™.

Joint Accreditation allows the CSC to maintain the ability to award accredited continuing education credits for healthcare professionals throughout the Indian Health Service, Tribal, and Urban (I/T/U) programs. The Joint Accreditation for Interprofessional Continuing Education™ is the first and only accrediting body in the world to offer the opportunity to be simultaneously accredited to provide CE activities for multiple healthcare professions through a single, unified application process, fee structure, and set of accreditation standards. CSC has maintained its jointly accredited provider status since 2018. Under Joint Accreditation, the CSC currently holds seven accreditations for physicians, nurses, pharmacists, physician assistants, psychologists, social workers and dietitians.

Joint Accreditation promotes IPCE activities specifically designed to improve interprofessional collaborative practice in health care delivery to achieve a common goal of improving patient care. Joint Accreditation assures the public that healthcare teams receive education designed to be independent, free from commercial bias, based on valid content, and effective in improving the quality and safety of care delivered by the team.

IHS clinical professionals must be well-versed in the latest medical advances in order to make sound, evidence-based decisions aligned with public health interests. Our Continuing Education program provides a way to tailor IHS training to address the specific knowledge and skills and culturally-specific content needed by internal staff while at the same time allowing them to earn the credit hours necessary to maintain their licensure. The CSC provides and supports educational activities in a variety of formats including: lectures, workshops, webinars, seminars, rounds and regularly scheduled series for IHS, Tribal and Urban (I/T/U) healthcare teams.

The continuing education activities of the CSC directly support the IHS Strategic Goals and Objectives, specifically:

• IHS Strategic Goal 1: To ensure that comprehensive, culturally appropriate personal and public health services are available and accessible to American Indian and Alaska Native people.

o Objective 1.1: Recruit, develop, and retain a dedicated, competent, and caring workforce.

o Objective 1.3: Increase access to quality health care services.

• IHS Strategic Goal 2: To promote excellence and quality through innovation of the Indian health system into an optimally performing organization.

o Objective 2.1: Create quality improvement capability at all levels of the organization. [Quality Data, Improvement and Standards of Care] o Objective 2.2: Provide care to better meet the health care needs of American Indian and Alaska Native communities. {Culturally Appropriate Care and Sharing Best Practices}

• IHS Strategic Goal 3: To strengthen IHS program management and operations.

o Objective 3.2: Secure and effectively manage the assets and resources.

o Objective 3.3: Modernize information technology and information systems to support data driven decisions.

CSC's major role is to assist IHS, Tribal, and Urban health programs in planning continuing education activities. By virtue of its intimate involvement in the development, implementation, and evaluation of activities for and by the healthcare team, the CSC is able to award continuing education credits.

2.0 Performance Period

2/1/2026-01/31/2031. The contract period for base year and four (4), one (1) year options, as exercised. Each option year will have 12-month period of performance.

3.0 Description of Work

Deliverables services that are provided as part of Joint Accreditation annual fees:

• Accredited CE for multiple healthcare professions through a single, unified application process, fee structure, and set of accreditation standards.

• A single data reporting structure, Joint Accreditation’s Program and Reporting System (JA-PARS), for all program CE/IPCE which serves to track and describe the breadth of program accredited education.

• The ability to report credit for pharmacy learners and the option to report physician credit data in JA-

PARS, offering streamlined licensing and certification compliance using program CE activities.

• The collection and analysis of program data from all jointly accredited providers, resulting in an annual data report that offers a review of the year and long-range trends to allow programs to strategize.

• Timely communications and announcements delivered through the JA Newsletter and via the JA website.

• Discounts for jointly accredited providers at annual conferences/meetings and updates webinars.

• A more user-friendly Provider Directory to allow colleagues and healthcare professional learners to find your CE program.

• Support and promotion of program important work in support of the healthcare team and patient care – including efforts to coordinate with licensing boards to simplify credit requirements and the development of campaigns like IPCE Delivers to share the evidence that demonstrates the value of IPCE.

4.0 Type of Contract: Firm-Fixed-Price

4.1 Contract Award Meeting

The contractor shall only commence work upon notification of an approved contract award from the contracting officer.

4.2 Schedule for Deliverables

The contractor shall provide the requested product as soon as possible after the contract award.

4.3 Changes to the Statement of Work

Any changes to this SOW shall be authorized and approved only through written correspondence from the CO and changes will be definitized via contract modification. Costs incurred by the contractor through the actions of parties other than the CO shall be borne by the contractor.

4.4 Reporting Requirements

The contractor shall report to the contracting officer’s representative (COR) and/or CO in writing within one (1) business day upon awareness of any concerns about performance or delay in delivery as outlined in this SOW to include an estimated timeframe for resolution, identification of the problem preventing the timely delivery, and the plan to mitigate this problem from occurring again.

4.5 Government Responsibilities

The Government is responsible for communicating with the contractor promptly if assistance is needed in any matter related to this contract and for allowing a reasonable time for the contractor's response and follow-through.

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