SOLICITATION NOTICE
A -- A SOLICITATION OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE FOR SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATION RESEARCH CONTRACT PROPOSALS
- Notice Date
- 7/17/2002
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Contracts Operations Branch 6701 Rockledge Dr RKL2/6100 MSC 7902, Bethesda, MD, 20892-7902
- ZIP Code
- 20892-7902
- Solicitation Number
- PHS-2003-1
- Response Due
- 11/8/2002
- Point of Contact
- Office of Extramural Programs Office of Extramural Research, National Institutes of Health, Phone 301-435-2688,
- E-Mail Address
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- Description
- THE SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATION RESEARCH (SBIR) PROGRAM OF THE U.S. PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE SOL [PHS 2003-1] DUE 110802 POC Office of Extramural Programs, Office of Extramural Research, (301) 435-2688. National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892 and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30305 are soliciting proposals from small business concerns that possess the research and development (R&D) expertise to conduct innovative research that will contribute toward meeting the program objectives of the agencies. A SOLICITATION OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE FOR SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATION RESEARCH CONTRACT PROPOSALS [PHS 2003-1], with a closing date of November 8, 2002 for receipt of proposals, soon will be available electronically through the National Institutes of Health's Small Business Funding Opportunities (NIH SBIR/STTR) home page at http://grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/sbir.htm. The SBIR Phase I Contract Solicitation will only be available via electronic means. Printed copies of the solicitation will not be distributed. Potential offerors are encouraged to check the NIH SBIR/STTR home page for updates on the program. Any updates or corrections to the solicitation will be posted there. The SBIR program, which was initiated in 1982, was reauthorized through fiscal year 2008 by the Small Business Innovation Research Program Reauthorization Act of 2000 (Public Law 106-554; December 21, 2000). The purposes of the Act are to: (a) expand and improve the SBIR program; (b) emphasize increased private sector commercialization of technology developed through federal R&D; (c) increase small business participation in federal R&D; and (d) foster and encourage participation of socially and economically disadvantaged small business concerns and women-owned small business concerns in the SBIR program. For purposes of the SBIR program, a small business concern is any business concern that, on the date of award, (1) is organized for profit, with a place of business located in the United States, which operates primarily within the United States or which makes a significant contribution to the United States economy through payment of taxes or use of American products, materials or labor; (2) is in the legal form of an individual proprietorship, partnership, limited liability company, corporation, joint venture, association, trust or cooperative, except that where the form is a joint venture there can be no more than 49 percent participation by foreign business entities in the joint venture; (3) is at least 51 percent owned and controlled by one or more individuals who are citizens of, or permanent resident aliens in, the United States; AND (4) has, including its affiliates, no more than 500 employees. Following are the research topics identified in the PHS SBIR Contract Solicitation [PHS 2003-1]: NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH (NIH) National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA): The Use of Information from the Mouse Transcriptosome and Proteome to Develop a Correlational Alcohol-Relevant Database; National Cancer Institute (NCI): Clinical Trial Data Collection Using Hand-Held Technology; Development and Application of High-Throughput Proteomics Technology; Development of Oligonucleotide Selection Software for Molecular Genetic Analysis; Particle-Based Flow Cytometric Assay for Detection and Quantification of Viral Antibodies; Biomedical Informatics System for Basic and Clinical Cancer Research; Development of Novel Agents Directed Against Childhood Cancer Molecular Targets; Target Based High Throughput Screening for the Identification of Radioprotectors; Expert vs. User-Tailored Interactive Media; Technologies to Promote Best Practices in Data Sharing; Real-time Cancer Communications Data Collection; New Approaches for the Determination of 3-Dimensional Protein Structure; Technologies for the Study of Genetic Alterations; New Technologies for Monitoring the Tumor Micro-environment; Development of Inhibitory Reagents for the Study of Protein Function. National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA): Design, Synthesis, Preclinical Testing and Scale-up of Novel Treatment Agents for Stimulant Abuse; Antibody-based Therapies for Substance Abuse Treatment; Virtual Reality for the Treatment of Co-Morbid Drug Abuse and Post-Traumatic Stress; Pharmacovigilance Database for Anti-Addiction Medications; National Census of Therapeutic Community Treatment Services for Substance Abusers; Measurement Modules for Psychiatric Comorbidity Evaluation; Worksite Based Health Promotion for Youth; Synthesis of New Chemical Probes; Virtual Reality for Treatment of Pain or Drug Addiction; Technologies for Proteomic Analysis in the Nervous System; Development Of Science Education Materials Related to the Use of Animals in Research; Development of Testing Technology to Support Delivery of Linked Drug Abuse Treatment and Primary Medical Care. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS): Development of Software to Associate Haplotype Populations with Disease Pathways; Development of Antibody Arrays for Toxicoproteomics; Use of Metabonomics to Develop Biomarkers of Organ Toxicity; Automated Scoring of Chromosome Damage in Sperm Using FISH Biomarkers; Development of Microarray Profiles for Microbial Toxicity. National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI): Novel Allosteric B2-Adrenergic Receptor Agonists; Novel PAR1 Antagonists. National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS): Polyclonal Antibodies from Non-Mammalian Model Systems. National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH): Families as Research Partners: Development of Interactive Educational and Dissemination Modules to Train Family Members of Children with Emotional or Behavioral Disorders about Mental Health Research Methods, Procedures, Data Analyses, and Interpretation; Developing Research Based Training Modules for Conducting Community Based Mental Health Interventions and Services Research with Underserved Racial/Ethnic and Rural/Frontier; Inventory of Successful Archived Mental Health Data Sets; Interactive Web-Based Networking Tool for Linking Collaborative/International Research Training Programs; Development of a Flexible Decision Support System for the Management of Psychiatric Diseases. CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (CDC) National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP): Method to Screen Tobacco Products for Reduced-Harm or Reduced-Exposure Claims; High Through-Put Method to Isolate Tobacco and Tobacco-Derived Cigarette Components; Testing Youth Innovations to Increase; Consumption of Vegetables and Fruits; Environmental Partnering Innovations to Improve Consumption of Vegetables and Fruits. National Center for HIV, STD and TB Prevention (NCHSTP): Curriculum Development for Rapid Ethnographic Assessment; STD Counseling Guide for Pharmacists; Video Training in Parent-to-Child Communication Skills. National Center for Infectious Diseases (NCID): Biodefense: Rapid Detection of Plague Organisms in Throat Swabs; Novel Antigen Delivery for Improved Influenza Vaccination in Aged Populations. National Immunization Program (NIP): Develop Methods for Administration of Vaccines, Including Live Virus Vaccines, through the Respiratory Tract; High-Speed, Disposable-Cartridge, Needle-Free Jet Injectors. The PHS SBIR Contract Solicitation PHS 2003-1, including proposal forms, soon will be available electronically through the National Institutes of Health's Small Business Funding Opportunities home page at http://grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/sbir.htm on the World Wide Web. (Note: The PHS 2002-2 Omnibus Solicitation of the National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Food and Drug Administration for Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) GRANT APPLICATIONS is still open and is available at the same website noted above with remaining closing dates of August 1 and December 1, 2002.) LINKURL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/sbir.htm LINKDESC: National Institutes of Health's Small Business (SBIR/STTR) Funding Opportunities
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