Patient Safety Organization Privacy Protection Center (PSOPPC) and Network of Patient Safety Databases (NPSD) Systems

The Department of Health and Human Services Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality intends to solicit proposals for the Patient Safety Organization Privacy Protection Center and Network of Patient Safety Databases Systems contract. This contract aims to establish a centralized privacy protection center and network of databases to allow for the collection and analysis of patient safety event data. Proposals will be evaluated based on the offeror's technical approach, management plan, and past performance related to privacy protection, data analytics, and systems integration. Interested parties should monitor the Federal Business Opportunities website for the formal RFP, which is expected to be released in January 2021 with proposals due in March.

This will be a total small business set-aside contract. The primary NAICS code is 541511 with a PSC code of D304. The incumbent contractor is unknown at this time. The estimated annual budget for this single award IDIQ contract is $5-10 million over 5 years. The systems provided under this contract must be able to support the ongoing collection, analysis and reporting of de-identified patient safety event data from over 50 contributing Patient Safety Organizations on a national scale.