On February 4, 2014, AHRQ posted a Small Business Sources Sought Notice (Solicitation Number HHS-AHRQ-SBSS-14-10007) on www.fbo.gov looking for firms to coordinate relevant patient safety resources.
To address patient safety, AHRQ established the Patient Safety Network (PSNet) in 2004. Currently, PSNet offers weekly updates on patient safety literature, news, tools, and meetings and links to research and other information on patient safety. Users of PSNet are able to do powerful searches.
PSNet is coupled with WebM&M, a national; web-based learning program for healthcare providers. The site relies on user submitted reports on near misses, medical errors, and patient injuries.
Now AHRQ is looking for small businesses that have the capability to maintain, develop, and monitor a national web-based learning program for healthcare providers containing reports on near misses, medical errors, and patient harm and/or injury resulting from healthcare delivery.
Also, responders to the notice need to be able to provide learning materials geared to professionals, conduct surveys, develop appropriate partnerships to continue to expand knowledge in the field, and perform a root cause analysis.
Interested small businesses will need to submit a tailored capability statement to be submitted electronically no later than February 19, 2014. The period of performance will be from September 30, 2014 to September 2015.
Responders to this notice must have knowledge in clinical medicine, healthcare management, current and emerging topics in patient safety and healthcare quality, experts and key stakeholder organizations within the patient safety field, and knowledge on human and organizational factors.
Email David Goodno, Contract Specialist at david.goodno@ahrq.hhs.gov for more information, or call 301-427-1782.