NIMHD U. S. Burden of Health Disparities

This pre-solicitation notice announces the National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities' intent to negotiate a sole source, five-year follow-on contract with the University of Washington's Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation to sustain support services for identifying the U.S. burden of health disparities at the county level. Services will include modeling of risk factors, morbidity, mortality, and trends over time by demographics; estimating outcomes, exposures, and the burden of risk factors; managing and documenting data sources; creating forecasting models; and providing technical assistance. Interested parties may respond by December 8, 2022 to demonstrate how competition would be advantageous; however, there will be no solicitation or award process as this is intended to be a sole source follow-on contract.

There is no set-aside designated for this requirement. The incumbent contractor is the University of Washington's Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation, which has provided these specialized computing and scientific services under the existing contract. As the notice specifies a five-year period of performance with no stated award value, the potential follow-on contract size could be significant given the scope of services and nationwide modeling involved in sustaining this effort.