Studying Community Programs to Reduce Childhood Obesity

Added: Jul 30, 2009 10:54 am The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) plans to establish a Research Coordinating Center for a Research Program entitled: Studying Community Programs to Reduce Childhood Obesity. The purpose of this initiative is to support a nation-wide scientific study of communities that will examine outcomes associated with characteristics of existing or new community programs and policies to reduce childhood obesity rates. Relevant programs and policies may address educational, behavioral, environmental, and/or other activities aimed at influencing energy balance in youth through diet and physical activity. One Research Coordinating Center (RCC) will be funded, which will work in partnership with members of the National Collaborative on Childhood Obesity Research (NIH, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and CDC), to design and implement the research. The goal is to inform public-health practice and policy by identifying community approaches that may work best for reducing childhood obesity rates. The study will also help identify future research directions.



This is a Presolicitation Notice in advance of a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA), and the Government is not committed to award a contract pursuant to this announcement. The BAA, NHLBI-HC-10-15, detailing the specifics of the project as well as information pertinent to the development of an offerors proposal will be available electronically on or about August 18, 2009 and may be accessed through the Internet at the following URL location: http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/funding/inits/index.htm#rfp and will be posted to Federal Business Opportunities website at: http://www.fedbizopps.gov under the National Heart Lung and Blood posting section. No paper copies will be available. Proposals will be due on or about November 18, 2009. It is anticipated that one cost-reimbursement contract award will be made for a period of five years beginning on or about August 1, 2010. Offerors are responsible for downloading their own copy of the solicitation and amendments and for routinely checking the Internet site for any possible solicitation amendments that may be issued by the Government. This advertisement does not commit the Government to award a contract.



Original Point of Contact:



National Institutes of Health, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Office of Acquisitions, Rockledge II - Room 6100, 6701 Rockledge Drive - MSC 7902, Bethesda, MD 20892-7902 (use 20817 for express mail)



Kristiane E. Cooper, Contracting Officer, Phone (301) 435-6671, Fax (301) 480-3430, E-mail cooperke@mail.nih.gov