Notice of Intent.doc

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES

Program Support Center

Division of Acquisition Management, SAS

Room 5-101, Parklawn Building

5600 Fishers Lane

Rockville, MD 20857

August 23, 2011 Solicitation #: OS69885 Notice of Intent to Award The Division of Acquisition Management intends to award a sole source contract, utilizing acquisition procedures under the authority of FAR Part 6.302-1 for the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Department of Health & Human Services for the Standardizing Assessments and Supporting Health Information Exchange for long-term/post-acute care (LTPAC) and behavioral health (BH) Providers provided by American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA). This notice of intent to award is not a request for competitive proposals. The purpose of this notice is merely to obtain capability statements to allow interested firms an opportunity to demonstrate their qualifications for the standards below.

The purpose of the contract to acquire expertise in the workflow of and data needed in nursing homes and home health settings, demonstrated experience and expertise in convening and consulting with subject matter experts and managing interdisciplinary teams, experience in applying health information technology standards and developing training materials related to the use of such standards, and collaborating with a variety of organizations (including standard development organizations).”

The period of performance for the contract shall be one base year.

In order to respond to this notice, qualified firms must be able to clearly convey its experience and/or ability to perform the following tasks identified below in a capability statement:

1. The development, management and guidance on data and information flow in nursing homes, home health, and variety of other settings;

2. The data content used in and needed by nursing homes, home health, and other settings (including federally-required assessments);

3. Convening subject matter experts to identify solutions to health information management problems and identifying hit solutions to address these problems;

4. Demonstrated skills in managing interdisciplinary teams of experts required for complex contracts;

5. Applying health information technology standards to administrative requirements including semantic matching for LOINC represented assessment content, including use of web-based semantic matching tools for patient assessment content;

6. Working with CAST, IHE, HL7, LOINC; and

7. Developing training manuals for the use health information technology clinical terminologies, including chapters on the use LOINC.

Qualified firms must also include the following information

a. DUNS.

b. Company Name.

c. Company Address.

d. Current GSA Schedules appropriate to this Award.

e. Do you have a Government approved accounting system? If so, please identify the agency that approved the system.

f. Type of Company (i.e., small business, 8(a), woman owned, veteran owned, etc.) as validated via the Central Contractor Registration (CCR). All offerors must register on the CCR located at http://www.ccr.gov/index.asp

g. Company Point of Contact, Phone and Email address No solicitation document is available. Capability statement must be submitted with 15 days of the publication of this synopsis to the contact point and address given above. All capability statements are due to the Contract Specialist by 12 noon September 7, 2011. Capability statements will not be returned and will not be accepted after the due date. The maximum number of pages for submission is 5 pages. If no capability statements are received which specifically demonstrate the requirements above, the Government shall proceed with a sole source contract to AHIMA.

Government Official Designated for Receipt of Capability Statements Charles R. Hicks

Contract Specialist Email: Charles.Hicks@psc.hhs.gov Phone: 301.443.0706 Fax: 301.443.8488