2019 IPC Information Awareness Training

Project Title: 2019 IPC Information Awareness Training
Announcement No.: 75H704-19-R-00027

The Government hereby submits a notice of intent to award a sole source contract to the Profound Knowledge Partners, Inc. (DUNS: 171837243) for the Indian Health Service (IHS) Improving Patient Care (IPC) of American Indian and Alaskan Native (AI/AN) people for training and technical assistance for the National IPC staff and Quality Resource Team members. This sole source contract is for the training and technical assistance services will provide the members with Subject Matter expertise as Improvement Advisors (IA). The IA's will assist care teams from Indian Health Service, Tribal and Urban (I/T/U) facilities in attaining Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) designation and by assisting the organization by becoming effective leaders that are trained to identify, plan, and implement quality improvement across the agency, of which is integral in assisting IHS care teams to achieve PCMH implementation and designation by 2022.

The Improving Patient Care program has identified this specific training program to develop Subject Matter Experts to equip them with the necessary skills, knowledge, and capability to define, develop, test and implement quality improvement efforts for the agency using the science of improvement.
This sole source contracting action is being pursued under the authority of FAR 6.302-1.

This notice is for informational purposes only and is not a request for proposal/quotation. Responses to this notice must demonstrate clear and convincing evidence that competition would be advantageous to the Government, would not be cost or time prohibitive, and would not hinder the mission objective of the Indian Health Service.

Questions or comments to this Notice of Intent should be directed to Contract Specialist, Melani Hainesworth at melani.hainesworth@ihs.gov via e-mail only (no phone calls/voice mail messages regarding questions will not be accepted and will not receive a response). Please indicate in the subject of your email: Notice of Intent Question Submission - 75H704-19-R-00027.

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