Sources Sought-Womens Health Quality Improvement.pdf

DEFENSE HEALTH AGENCY (DHA)

REQUEST FOR INFORMATION/SOURCES SOUGHT

WOMEN’S HEALTH QUALITY IMPROVEMENT

The Professional Services Contracting Division, Defense Health Agency, is seeking sources capable of providing review, analytics and trending analysis of women’s health and perinatal care with the Military Treatment Facilities (MTFs) and Private Sector Care Facilities (PSCFs) against concurrent civilian maternal, fetal, and neonatal quality benchmarks.

NAICS Code: 541611

PSC: R408

BACKGROUND:

The Defense Health Agency (DHA) Medical Affairs Division is responsible for oversight of clinical quality for the Medical Health Systems (MHS). The MHS involves all military hospitals and clinics worldwide, to include care delivered to TRICARE beneficiaries in community and civilian care facilities. The objective of surveillance of the clinical quality is to monitor performance and to demonstrate and improve quality of care within the MHS. The services provided for the resulting contract will independently analyze the women’s and perinatal care outcomes in up to 41 MTFs and a determined number of designated PSCFs to highlight improvement opportunities in the MHS and TRICARE. Services shall also include an analysis and comparison of women’s health and perinatal care provided for MTFs and PSCFs to the Contractor’s benchmark average.

ANTICIPATED PLACE OF PERFORMANCE: Contractor’s site. Data will be collected by the Government and provided electronically, via secure transmittal, to the Contractor in order to perform services.

DISCLAIMERS AND IMPORTANT NOTES: THIS NOTICE IS NOT A REQUEST FOR

PROPOSALS. In accordance with FAR 15.201, responses to this notice cannot be accepted by the Government to form a binding contract. This notice constitutes part of a market research effort as described under FAR 10.002. This notice does not obligate the Government to award a potential contract or otherwise pay for the information provided in response. The Government reserves the right to use results of the communications with industry for any purpose consistent with, and not otherwise prohibited by FAR Part 10. In accordance with FAR 10.001(b), potential sources are not to submit more than the minimum information necessary.

DHA intends to review responses to this notice to formulate the acquisition strategy for a competitive follow-on. Employees of Amyx, Inc., under contract to DHA, may be involved, in some capacity, and receive responses to this notice and administer their review.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMISSION OF RESPONSE:

Points of contact for this notice are:

1. Crystal Randolph, crystal.d.randolph.civ@health.mil, Contract Specialist

2. Cherish Young, cherish.d.young2.civ@health.mil, Contracting Officer mailto:crystal.d.randolph.civ@health.mil mailto:cherish.d.young2.civ@health.mil

DHA requests responses by June 19th @ 10 AM EST, submitted by email to the points of contact, above. We will review all responses received on or before this date. DHA may review late responses at its convenience but makes no commitment to do so.

Companies may submit to the points of contact, above, questions for clarification of this notice at any time before responses is due. If the answer to the question requires a material change to this notice or necessarily includes non-public information, we will respond by update of the notice. Otherwise, we will respond directly to the company asking the question. DHA will not respond to questions determined to be outside the purpose of this notice. We request responses of 10 pages, or less. The agency may or may not review excess pages, or other attachments and addenda to the response.

1. In the context of the anticipated tasks, please address the following requests for information:

a. Company Name

b. Address

c. Point of Contact (POC)

d. POC Phone Number

e. POC E-mail

f. CAGE Code

g. Size representation under the NAICS code at the top of this notice

h. Socioeconomic Designation (if applicable)

2. The Government is interested in gaining insight on commercial best practices to review perinatal care, quarterly analysis, and trending of multiple perinatal and neonatal metrics. As a result, the DHA is performing market research to ascertain interest, capabilities, and available solutions within healthcare industry for MTFs and TRICARE supported facilities against established concurrent civilian maternal, fetal, and neonatal quality benchmarks areas. The Contractor will collect the specified set of perinatal data for services, materials, and equipment to provide support for the external review of perinatal care in the MHS to determine best clinical ‘outcomes’ and to evaluate and improve the quality and outcomes of perinatal care provided to MHS beneficiaries, to include both mothers and newborn infants. Services include but are not limited to program management, statistical analysis, reporting and documentation, healthcare Subject Matter Expertise analysis and support, healthcare database and analytics support. The Contractor will also advise and provide technical support in the areas of safety, quality, and access to knowledge of industry best practices.

3. Interested vendors shall describe its resources and approach for hiring and retaining highly qualified experts with experience in collecting data from MTFs, assessing risks, and analyzing trends with industry for quality improvement in women’s/perinatal care. Data collection will be sourced from all discharges for MTFs, and perinatal care discharges as designated by the Government. Data collection will be facilitated by access to the central and local Standard Inpatient Data Record (SIDR), the Standard Outpatient Data Record (SADR), and the Composite Health Care System (CHCS), the Military Data Repository (MDR), TRICARE Encounter Data- Institutional (TED I) (i.e., include electronic medical record as a data source).

4. Interested vendors shall describe its experience in drafting performance reports and quarterly reports from data collected, while providing comprehensive process improvement guidelines.

5. Interested vendors shall describe its experience working with the General Fund Enterprise Business System (GFEBS) to retrieve and analyze fiscal data.

7. The services described in this notice have been previously procured as commercial services.

CONFIDENTIALITY:

No proprietary, classified, confidential or sensitive information should be included in the response. Industry responses will be shared with DHA staff for the purpose of market research.

The Government reserves the right to use any non-proprietary technical information in any resultant solicitation(s