SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- Lexicon Building Services
- Notice Date
- 3/19/2002
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Library of Medicine, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD, 20894
- ZIP Code
- 20894
- Solicitation Number
- Reference-Number-02074SAN
- Response Due
- 4/4/2002
- Archive Date
- 4/19/2002
- Point of Contact
- Susan Nsangou, Contract Specialist, Phone 301 496-6546, Fax 301 401-0642, - Karen Riggs, Contracting Officer, Phone 301 496-6546, Fax 301 402-0642,
- E-Mail Address
-
NsangoS@mail.nlm.nih.gov, RIGGSK@mail.nlm.nih.gov
- Description
- The Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications under the National Library of Medicine (NLM) intends to negotiate on a sole source basis with Lynn McCreedy, Ph.D., for lexicon building services. The contractor will continue performing the following services (1) Encode syntactic and other information in SPECIALIST lexical records on an ongoing basis according to the specifications given in the document "Specifications for the SPECIALIST lexicon. Such document may be found on the internet at: ftp://cgsb2.nlm.nih.gov/pub/nls/download/techrpt.pdf ; (2) Perform quality review of the lexical records to ensure that: lexical records conform to the format, codes, and rules for SPECIALIST lexical records; specifications for creating lexical records have been correctly followed; and assignment of all available codes and information is complete and accurate. The Lexicon is used extensively within the National Library of Medicine and in the Medical Informatics community. Expertise with the the linguistics of English particularly with regard to lexical issues, such as verb complementation, inflectional and derivational morphology and spelling variation is required as well as a close familiarity with the format of the SPECIALIST lexicon. Dr. McCreedy has a doctorate in linguistics and over 7 years of experience in lexicon building and SPECIALIST Lexicon. Dr. McCreedy has been performing this service for the NLM for 7 years. This service will be procured under FAR Part 13 (Simplified Acquisitions.) This is not a Request for Quotations (RFQ), nor is an RFQ available, however, all responsible and responsive sources may submit a proposal which will be considered by the NLM. Firms interested in responding to this notice must be able to provide the professional technical services as specified above. Responses should demonstrate the firm's ability to meet the government's requirements. Responses are required within 15 (fifteen) calendar days from the publication date of this notice. NLM synopsis No. 02-074/SAN shall be noted on all correspondence to this announcement.
- Place of Performance
- Address: 8600 Rockville Pike, Building 38A, Room B1N17, Bethesda, MD
- Zip Code: 20894
- Zip Code: 20894
- Record
- SN00044836-W 20020321/020319213140 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
-
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