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NOTICE OF INTENT TO SOLE SOURCE: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announces its intention to negotiate a sole source contract with the American Association of Poison Control Centers (AAPCC), 3201 New Mexico Avenue, Suite 330, Washington, DC 20016. AAPCC is the association of the 63 poison control centers in the United States and as such receives data concerning 2.2 million poison exposures annually from U.S. poison control centers. This poisoning data is updated every 4-10 minutes, 24 hours a day. Toxicologists, epidemiologists, and statisticians at AAPCC and CDC (NCEH/EHHE/HSB) have developed and continually modify categories of information collected by the national poisonings data system to analyze for aberration detection. The Contractor, as an independent agent and not as an agent of the government, shall provide CDC with data about poisonings from the Poison Control Centers (PCCs) (i.e., call volume, clinical effect data, and specific substance data) for use in CDC toxicosurveillance and notification of public health officials of aberrations. The Contractor shall provide real-time toxicosurveillance data in a manner that meets or exceeds CDC security requirements established by the Public Health Information Network (PHIN). The software and hardware used to collect national poisonings data will be flexible enough to eventually allow for the uploading of, or ensure the accuracy of coding for, text fields from the PCC record; is compatible with the four data entry platforms currently being used by the PCCs; and can be modified as CDC’s data needs grow and change. The system and the data collected will be continually reviewed and evaluated collaboratively by the Contractor and CDC toxicology and surveillance experts so that data quality and utility is improved. All work performed under this contract is done so under guidelines and limitations set forth in the executed licensing agreement(s). So that progress can be monitored, the Contractor shall provide quarterly reports to CDC. Reports will describe the progress of each activity, as well as the costs associated with that progress. Technical Requirements The Contractor shall: 1. Complete initial rebuild of national poisoning data system, ensuring CDC access to data, compliance with CDC security and technology specifications, and system redundancies to protect the data. 2. Continue to review 10-20 aberrations detected in the regularly monitored exposure data and provide subject matter expertise interpretation and resolution of the aberration as appropriate. This activity is the daily operation and purpose of the national poisoning data system for CDC. 3. Expand the current capability of national poisoning data so it can be utilized by GIS software applications and will purchase the software to allow creation of visual display of national poisoning data. 4. Develop a database and track the details about alerts issued by the national poisoning data system, including origin, follow-up actions, contacts, and resolution. 5. Facilitate an evaluation activity local poison control centers to expand their surveillance capabilities and improve their ability to detect aberrations at the local level. The proposed activity will replicate and expand the national aberrancy detection algorithms at 3 local PCCs; the evaluation will compare detection of anomalies at the local level versus the national level. 6. Facilitate an evaluation activity local poison control centers to: a) develop a database to track the details (e.g., origin, follow-up actions, contacts, resolution) about aberrations that their local detection systems identify; and b) compare their anomalies with PCC surveillance to determine whether there is any added public health benefit in conducting surveillance on the local level in addition to national surveillance. The PCC tracking databases will be compared for sensitivity and specificity to the databases developed by AAPCC f