Qualitative Inquiry Methods to Understand Issues in HIV Prevention, Care and Treatment

This is a Total Small Business Request for Proposal (RFP) issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Procurement and Grants Office to provide support CDC's, National Center for HIV/AIDS, STD, Viral Hepatitis, and TB Prevention, by awarding an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) Contract for a ceiling amount of $15.0M, in accordance with FAR Part 15 - Contracting by Negotiation, for Qualitative Inquiry Methods to Understand Issues in HIV Prevention, Care, and Treatment in the United States support services. Services performed under the IDIQ contract will be to conduct qualitative inquiry methods to help answer timely questions related to HIV prevention, and to use the findings to strengthen existing and future HIV prevention efforts.

The purpose of the IDIQ contract will be to provide the CDC an ‘as needed' mechanism with rapid turnaround to obtain required services related to understanding issues impacting HIV prevention. These services could include, collecting in-depth qualitative data, summarizing and analyzing existing qualitative data, and developing both technical documents and publishable manuscripts to add to the generalizable current state of knowledge regarding issues, barriers and facilitators to HIV prevention, care, and treatment. Located within the National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (NCHHSTP), the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention (DHAP) is responsible for providing national leadership and support for HIV epidemiologic research and surveillance of the behaviors and determinants of HIV transmission and disease progression, and for prevention research and the development, implementation, and evaluation of evidence-based HIV prevention programs serving persons affected by or at risk for HIV infection. The associated NACIS Code is541990 with a size standard of $14.0M.

The resultant IDIQ will be for 5 years consisting of a one-year base period and 4 one-year option periods. The contract anticipated period of performance will be 8/31/2013 through 8/30/2018. Task orders issued against the basic contract will be Firm-Fixed-Price with varying periods of performance.

Interested parties must respond to the RFP in order to be considered for award of any resultant contract. All responsible and qualified sources may submit a proposal which shall be considered by the agency. No written solicitation document is available, telephone requests will not be honored and no offerors list will be maintained. Notifications will not be sent to the offerors regarding the issuance of the solicitation nor any of its amendments. It is the offerors' responsibility to check this website.