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

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Center for HIV/AIDS, STD, Viral Hepatitis, and TB Prevention (NCHHSTP), intends to solicit and award 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 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) an ‘as needed' mechanism with rapid turnaround to obtain required services related to understanding issues impacting HIV prevention. These services could include, but are not limited to, 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 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 is 541990 - All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services 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.

All responses regarding this Notice shall be emailed to Wikiki Henton, Contracting Specialist, at kfv5@cdc.gov. Offeror responses shall include "RFP No. 2013-N-15633" in the subject line of the e-mail.

The solicitation for this requirement will be posted to www.fob.gov on or about 5/24/2013.

Proposals in response to the solicitation will be due on or about 6/23/2013. CDC will consider all responsible small business sources.

Offerors are expected to download all documents concerning this requirement, as no hard copies will be mailed. Offerors are advised to frequently view www.fbo.gov website for updated postings.