Establishing Workplans for Ten Regional Centers to Enhance Public Health Preparedness and Response

This pre-solicitation synopsis is not a request for competitive proposals. The Office of Readiness and Response (ORR) intends to competitively procure services for the establishment of ten (10) regional coordinating bodies of applicable state, tribal, local, and territorial health departments and officials, health care facilities, health care coalitions, academic, public, and private partners. Firm Fixed Price contracts of up to 1-year of performance are anticipated. It is anticipated that award will be made using a Best-Value Trade-Off approach.

The solicitation will be limited to to institutions of higher education, including accredited schools of public health, or other nonprofit private entities with at least 10 years of experience working with the public health emergency preparedness and response evidence base and coordinating at the regional level.

The requirement is for:

1. Establishment of and convening of a regional coordinating body of applicable state, tribal, local, and territorial health departments and officials, health care facilities, and health care coalitions, academic, public, and private partners
2. Coordination of relevant activities with the regional coordinating body including  
   1. Determination of public health emergency preparedness and response focus areas that would benefit from translation, dissemination, and evaluation of promising research findings or evidence-informed or evidence-based practices and, if needed development and evaluation of new strategies based on local needs, to enhance regional public health emergency preparedness and response practice. Focus areas may be broad and be based on things like public health emergency type, PHEP capability domain, PHEP Program Priorities See Figure 1) or target population.  
   2. Establishment of priorities within these focus areas that take into consideration the needs, capacity and capability of the regional health departments, and academic, public, and private partners of the region. Priorities should be specific and relate to strategies or interventions an STLT health department or public health regional coordinator can implement with the support of a regional Center for Public Health Preparedness and Response.
3. Creation of a five-year work plan to guide work of the regional centers once they are established
4. Dissemination of the plan to the members of the regional coordinating body
5. Provision of the plan and supporting documents used to develop the work plans to CDC for future use.  

The Government will release the solicitation, including any subsequent amendments, on the SAM.gov website. The government anticipates the solicitation will be available approximately 30 to 45 days from the date of this notice, with an anticipated closing date/proposal due date of at least 30 days from the date of release of the solicitation. No telephone or written requests for the solicitation will be accepted. Amendments to the solicitation, if issued, will be posted to the same website. After solicitation release, vendors should regularly access the website to ensure they have all of the amendments.

Please see draft PWS for more information. Any questions will need to be submitted by email to Eric Lyons, kpy2@cdc.gov. Questions will not be accepted by phone.