283-16-0490 Behavioral Health Services Information System (BHSIS)

THIS IS A PRE-SOLICITATION SYNOPSIS.

The Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Department of Health and Human Services contemplates awarding a nine-month cost-reimbursement contract with four optional years for a project entitled "Behavioral Health Services Information System (BHSIS).

This project is Set Aside for Small Business under NAICS Code 541519, Other Computer Related Services.

The purpose of BHSIS is to provide current data on substance abuse and mental health treatment facilities and the people they serve, to issue reports on the data collections, and to produce an on-line treatment locator of these treatment facilities. In cooperation with state substance abuse and mental health agencies and individual facilities, five complexly inter-related components combine and integrate census survey data and state administrative data to provide an accurate picture of the state of substance abuse and mental health treatment in the United States, including each state and territory/jurisdiction.

The purpose of this contract is to collect, manage, and analyze the data that comprise five (5) BHSIS components and to improve the quality of BHSIS data. BHSIS consists of five (5) inter-related components: (1) the Inventory of Behavioral Health Services (I-BHS); (2) the substance abuse treatment facility survey called the National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS); (3) the mental health treatment facility survey called the National Mental Health Services Survey (N-MHSS); (4) the Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS), a collection of substance abuse treatment admissions and discharges to state-funded substance abuse treatment facilities, and (5) the Mental Health-Treatment Episode Data Set (MH-TEDS) and the Mental Health-Client Level Data (MH-CLD), collections of mental health client level data from state-funded mental health treatment service facilities, as well as the Uniform Reporting System (URS) Tables required for Mental Health Block Grant application procedures. This last component represents data collection efforts in coordination with CMHS Mental Health Block Grant program data needs as authorized by section 1911 of title XIX., Part B, Sub part I and III of the Public Health Service Act.

The estimated date for issuance of this RFP is Monday, May 23, 2016, with proposal responses due Friday, June 24, 2016. The anticipated period of performance is a base period of 9 months, plus four (4) 12-month option periods.

The solicitation, when issued, may be obtained through the FedBizOpps website at www.FedBizOpps.gov. If you have difficulty downloading the document from FedBizOpps, you may request a copy via U.S Mail by sending an email request to Blenda Perez at Blenda.Perez@samhsa.hhs.gov with "RFP No. 283-16-0490" in the subject line. Requests will be filled as soon as possible; however, there is no assurance that copies requested after the twentieth (20th) day will reach the requestor before the due date for receipt of proposals.