Maintenance of AHRQ COOP Plan

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is soliciting proposals for the maintenance of the AHRQ Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP) and Pandemic Flu Plan to ensure that the AHRQ COOP is up to date at all times and that all employees and COOP Team members are adequately trained to perform COOP activities. A changing threat environment and recent events emphasize the need for COOP capabilities that will enable AHRQ to continue its essential functions across a broad spectrum of emergencies. COOP planning establishes operational procedures to sustain essential functions if normal operations are not feasible and guides the restoration of AHRQ to full operational status following an emergency. The AHRQ COOP will provide for attaining operation capability within 12 hours and sustaining operations for up to 30 days or longer as the result of a catastrophic event or a national security emergency affecting the Rockville, MD metropolitan area. This requirement is a Total Small Business Set-Aside. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code that best describes the requirement is 541611. The small business size standard is $7.0 million. It is estimated that the solicitation will be issued on or about September 22, 2009 with proposals due on October 21, 2009 In addition to the solicitation being available on this site it will be available for downloading from the internet on AHRQ’s site at www.ahrq.gov. Once in AHRQ’s homepage go to “Funding Opportunities”, then to “Contracts”, and then to “Request for Proposal (RFP)”. It is the offerors responsibility to monitor this site for release of the solicitation, download their own copy of the solicitation, and to monitor this site for any subsequent amendments.