Proclamation on Declaring a National Emergency Concerning the Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Outbreak _ The White House.pdf

This notice announces the Department of Health and Human Services Indian Health Service's intent to award a sole source contract to the Association of Public Health Laboratories. The contract is for the agency's electronic laboratory data reporting requirement for COVID-19 testing using APHL's AIMS platform. The AIMS platform is the only service identified by DHHS that provides an acceptable single intake point to reach all state public health departments, the CDC, and several local public health organizations for COVID-19 test reporting. The reduced level of effort from using AIMS will facilitate achieving reporting guidance contained in an HHS memo. The period of performance is one base year and three option years. The NAICS code is 813920 for Health Professional Associations with a size standard of $16.5 million. Responses must demonstrate how competition would be advantageous, not cost or time prohibitive, and not hinder the IHS mission objective for COVID-19 reporting. Questions should be directed to the specified contracting specialist.