Notice of Intent to Sole Source to Carefusion Solutions LLC

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention intends to award a sole source firm fixed price purchase order to Carefusion Solutions LLC to obtain and use electronic healthcare data for public health purposes to inform situational awareness for Monkeypox which is the latest pandemic facing this Nation.Carefusion Solutions, LLC is a global medical technology company that partners with numerous health systems to improve patient outcomes by assisting clinicians with the identification of at-risk patients, the empowerment of streamlined workflows for reporting, and the ability to advance insights with actionable analytics. Carefusion Solutions collects and standardizes clinical data from healthcare systems to ensure comparability across all facilities and provides active clinical surveillance for more than 39 million patients and evaluates more than 21 million total specimens annually. Carefusion Solutions has unique experience:i. Receives near real-time patient clinical data on

Monkeypox and Polio patients including information on facility characteristics; patient characteristics (state, zip code, age, sex); hospitalization status and hospital setting (ED, ICU, non-ICU); laboratory results; medication orders; and patient outcomes (mortality, readmission).ii. Has data rights from client healthcare systems (representing more than 350 geographically diverse hospitals) to share patient clinical data with CDC.iii. Manages a dynamic healthcare database that is updated in near real-time (several times a day) and can rapidly be accessed by CDC via interactive and customizable dashboards for timely analysis to inform the COVID-19 emergency response.iv. Provides advanced analytic tools and a responsive and tailored approach to dashboard elements that can be modified as the needs of the emergency response evolve..This contract action is for supplies or services for which the Government intends to solicit and negotiate with only one source under the authority of FAR 13.106-1(b) (SAP) and 41 U.S.C. 3304(a)(1).. Interested persons may identify their interest and capability to respond to the requirement or submit proposals.This notice of intent is not a request for competitive quotations; however, all quotations/responses received within fifteen (15) days of the issuance of this notice will be considered by the government.  A determination by the government not to compete this proposed contract based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the government.  Information received will normally be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement.  Any quotation/response should be emailed to Marva Lewis at knn5@cdc.gov by 4:00 pm  EST on December 19, 2022