Specifications include, but are not limited to: The purpose of this RFP is to seek a Contractor who can assess the current data and surveillance infrastructure, as well as workforce capacity, gaps and opportunities to improve data and health information modernization for the Department. The Contractor must use assessment outcomes to develop a modernization plan for public health data and informatics infrastructure as well as a workforce development plan that includes how existing gaps will be addressed and how modernization efforts will be supported. This RFP supports the Federal Data Modernization Initiative. The purpose of the initiative is to move forward on modernization strategies for the Department’s public health data and surveillance infrastructure in a coordinated and collaborative fashion. The services needed include documenting and understanding workforce, data, and public health information systems needs and opportunities across the State. The Department does not have a cost history that it can provide as this is a new service for the Department’s Division of Public Health as a whole. Offerors should note that State and federal funding and or policy changes may cause fluctuations in the Department’s funding and or the services needed. Through collaboration with each bureau within the Division of Public Health, the Information Technology and Services Division, all seven (7) local public health districts, Idaho’s Health Information Exchange, the Idaho Health Data Exchange, the Cancer Registry of Idaho, and Idaho Hospital Association, the Contractor must assess and document current public health data and informatics and services, workforce competency and capacity and identify gaps in interoperability, data exchange and workforce capacity and systems. The Contract is funded by the Data Modernization – COVID grant awarded July 2021 through the U.S. Department of the Treasury. The Contract supports the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare Strategic Plan and the Division of Public Health priorities. The Contractor must provide a point of contact to the Contract Monitor. If a change in key staffing occurs during the Contract timeframe, the Contractor must notify the Contract Monitor of the change within thirty (30) calendar days. The Contractor must receive prior written approval from the Department for any deviations from the Cost Matrix services/activities. The Contractor must be financially responsible for costs deemed unallowable or unapproved by the Contract Monitor. For the general monitoring of the Contract, the Contractor must maintain and have available for review all reporting and evaluation data and information for activities, and financial data as specified in the Records and Data section of the Special Terms and Conditions. The Contractor must ensure that procedural safeguards are followed in confidentiality requirements according to IDAPA 16.05.01, Use and Disclosure of Department Records.
