The purpose of this solicitation is for Heluna Health, on behalf of the California Department of Public Health Infant Botulism Treatment and Prevention Program (CDPH-IBTPP), to solicit proposals from qualified contractors to award a contract for design of a case-control study protocol.
Infant botulism is a rare but life-threatening illness that was first recognized in the 1970s in California, yet the causes remain poorly understood. Because infant botulism is extremely rare, a case-control study is the only feasible study design for identifying potential risk factors for the disease. The objective is to design the protocol for a case-control study of infant botulism, with specific attention to overall study design, selection of cases and controls (defining inclusion and exclusion criteria and sampling approach), mechanism of recruitment and enrollment of controls, variables and mechanisms of collection of participant data, and statistical analysis.
Proposal Submittal Deadline: August 22, 2025 8:00 PM PST
