Expanding Syndromic Surveillance in Colorado's Tri-County Health Department to Support Statewide Suicide Prevention
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Center for Environmental Health, Division of Violence Prevention intends to award a sole source contract to The Colorado Tri-County Health Department, 6162 South Willow Drive Suite 100, Greenwood Village, CO 80111. This contract will be for a period of 36 months.
The statutory authority for this sole source acquisition is 10 U.S.C. 2304 (c)(1) in accordance with FAR Part 6.302-1- only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy the agency requirement.
The Division of Violence Prevention is looking to expand syndromic surveillance of nonfatal suicide-related outcomes and upstream related violence outcomes (sexual violence and intimate partner violence) to the Colorado counties currently implementing comprehensive suicide prevention activities (referred to herein as CNC intervention counties), thereby supporting the evaluation efforts of the CNC statewide, comprehensive suicide prevention efforts by providing access to near real-time data on nonfatal suicide-related outcomes and disseminating reports of these data.
The Colorado Tri-County Health Department (TCHD) is the largest local health department in Colorado and currently the only agency in the state of Colorado conducting syndromic surveillance around nonfatal suicide-related outcomes. As such, the Colorado TCHD is the only agency that can provide CDC the syndromic surveillance data needed to understand real-time nonfatal suicide-related outcomes at the local level in the counties currently covered by the TCHD's syndromic surveillance system. Additionally, the Colorado TCHD is currently the only entity in Colorado supporting and onboarding eligible hospitals in their jurisdictions to transmit emergency department data into their syndromic surveillance system. The syndromic surveillance coordinators within the Colorado TCHD also have established relationships with the state health department and other local health departments, which can be leveraged for onboarding new intervention counties to their
syndromic surveillance system. Finally, any syndromic surveillance data requests submitted to the Colorado State Health Department are remitted to the Colorado TCHD, as they are the only entity collecting syndromic surveillance data within the state, but also because they are the only entity with the established infrastructure necessary to house data from millions of emergency department visits occurring within the six counties covered by the TCHD's syndromic surveillance system.
No solicitation will be posted to FedBizOpps. We will only issue a solicitation to TCHD. TCHD is the only source available to provide this service that meets mission critical requirements. This notice of intent is not a request for proposal. A determination to compete this procurement based on response to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Contracting Officer.
Interested parties who believe they possess the capability to satisfy this requirement should submit a capability statement demonstrating their ability to meet this requirement. All responses must be sent in writing to Ms. Sherrie Blackmon via email to kuj1@cdc.gov using solicitation number 75D301-19-R-68024 in the subject line, no later than 5:00pm Eastern Standard Time, July 19, 2019.
Sherrie A. Blackmon, Sr. Contract Specialist, Phone 7704882925, Email kuj1@cdc.gov
