Pre-Sol 15-day Notice.pdf

Title: NIMHD US Burden of Health Disparities

Notice Number: NIH-NIMHD-2023-7

Announcement Type: Pre-Solicitation

Agency/Office: National Institutes of Health

Location: National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities

Pre-Solicitation Notice

The National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), within the National Institutes of Health, intends to negotiate on a sole source basis, under the authority of 41 U.S.C. 253 ( c )(1) and FAR 6.301-1(a)(2)(ii) a five (5) year follow on contract with University of Washington (Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation- IHME), entitled, “U.S. Burden of Health Disparities”. This follow on support will sustain the supporting services and the highly specialized computing capacity, data linkages, model estimation methods, forecasting methods, and technical assistance required for this effort. It is critical that the services and work provided by IHME, not be interrupted as they are integral part to the success of identifying the mortality and morbidity burden in the U.S. at the county-level by age, sex, race-ethnicity, and education for all U.S.

counties.

As the incumbent Contractor, IHME conducts modeling of risk factors, morbidity, disability, and mortality at the county-level for all U.S. counties by race-ethnicity, sex, age, and education, and trends over time. In addition to mortality outcomes, the IHME conducts statistical modeling of non-fatal outcomes and risk factors at the county-level by the demographic groups specified and their intersection, and draft manuscripts based on these analyses. These support services include systematic analysis of data sources, systematically account for differences in data sources and biases, optimize and standardize indicators, estimate all-cause mortality, cause of death and YLL, estimate prevalence, incidence and YLD, estimate DALYs and HALE, estimate exposures to and the burden of risk factors, data management and documentation of data sources, generate summary report, create forecasting models (complex simulations) that provide estimates of the extent of possible health improvements (eg, reductions in cigarette smoking) and health-related expenses associated with alternative public health actions or inaction, and provide training and technical assistance to other researchers interested in utilizing the U.S. data and relevant modeling strategies developed under this requirement.

Transitioning to a new contractor would be extremely costly and challenging to assemble anew the scientific team to develop a platform accessible to the public that houses the results and modeling approaches already identified and developed. Additionally, due to data protection practices of other governmental agencies, a new contractor would have to obtain access on a state-by-state basis to county-level data on risk factors of disease and disability which would further delay results of the project. In view of this, it is critical that these services not be interrupted.

There will not be a solicitation or Request for Proposals (RFP) issued as a result of this announcement. Any responses or inquiries to this notice must demonstrate clear and convincing evidence that competition will be advantageous to the Government. All information received from this notice shall be used for planning and market research purposes only.

The Government will not pay for the preparation of any information submitted or use of such information. Acknowledgement of receipt of responses will not be made, nor will respondents be notified of the evaluation of the information received. Interested parties may respond and provide a capability statement no later than 4:00 pm., Eastern Standard Time (EST), December 8, 2022, via Email to Deb Blackshear, Contracting Officer, at blacdebo@mail.nih.gov. Emails must reference the announcement number in the subject line. This is not an RFP, and this announcement does not commit the Government to award a contract. The reference number to be used is NIH-NIMHD-2023-7.

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