Pain Neuroscience Education
Past New Requirement Updated
- Agency
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Indian Health Service
Department of Health and Human Services
- Solicitation expected
- Estimated value
- $250,000 to $700,000
- Set-aside
- No set-aside
Forecast facts
- Anticipated award
- NAICS code
- 541990 All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
- Points of contact
Forecast details come from HHS's procurement forecast. Agencies' dates and values are estimates.
About this forecast
The Indian Health Service is seeking a contractor to provide comprehensive pain neuroscience education training, including train-the-trainer programs, participant workbooks, and software licenses for an evidence-based intervention focused on pain signal processing. The program requires delivering a curriculum that explores complex pain mechanisms such as peripheral and central sensitization, biopsychosocial factors, and therapeutic pain management strategies for adolescents and adults. The estimated solicitation release is scheduled for October 1, 2025, with an anticipated contract award date of November 1, 2025.
While specific award value details are not provided, the contract falls under NAICS code 541990 for Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services and will require developing pre-recorded training sessions that include culturally competent content about pain neuroscience. The intervention curriculum will be evaluated for potential cultural adaptations, with key points of contact including Jeffrey Johnston (Acquisition Career Manager) and Cynthia Gunderson (Pharmacy Manager), both representing the Indian Health Service. Contact can be initiated through their respective IHS email addresses for further inquiries about this forecasted opportunity.
Forecast text
The contractor will be required to provide train-the-trainer training, participant workbooks, and applicable software licenses to deliver an evidence-based intervention on processing pain signals. This curriculum will be evaluated to identify cultural competence or opportunities for adaptation. The intervention should include 1-2, pre-recorded sessions. Content includes peripheral sensitization, central sensitization, and biopsychosocial factors associated with pain, threat appraisal of the brain, nociception, stress and endocrine responses in pain as well as various therapeutic endogenous strategies to ease pain, various images, metaphors and examples were used to convey the content to adolescents and adults.
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