Solicitation: 36C24520Q0363
Description of Work: PDHS will compare the health records of a cohort of MWDs that deployed to Southwest Asia, including those that deployed to OEF/OIF/OND, to the health records of a cohort of MWDs that did not deploy to that region. In collaboration with APHC, PDHS will receive the health and deployment records of all (approximately 3,000) deceased MWDs from the Department of Defense’s Military Working Dogs Veterinary Service (DODMWDVS).
The DODMWDVS will provide information from the MWD records, to include, but not limited to, clinical encounters, demographics, military service information, laboratory and pathology results, and the Permanent Change of Station/Temporary Duty (PCS/TDY) information for each MWD selected. These records may exist in both electronic and hardcopy, paper form. The
Contractor will produce scanned PDFs of all paper records. The Contractor will then abstract specific data from the military working dog records; these data will be: 1) missing data on current dogs in the database and, potentially, 2) data on deceased dogs that are not currently represented in the database. Monthly samples of abstracted data and their corresponding electronic files will be provided to the PDHS/APHC for review of accuracy and validation. APHC will provide the database that will be populated with the DODMWDVS records data.
The Contractor will add abstracted data from the records to the database. The Contractor will also perform updates to the coding of the database to improve functionality and usability as appropriate.
The Contractor shall provide the personnel and management necessary to support the transfer of data from the DODMWDVS to APHC via PDHS (who has an active research protocol with DODMWDVS), and subsequent abstraction and management through the use of a Microsoft Access database.
