MODIFICATION
A -- LUNG TISSUE RESEARCH CONSORTIUM: DATA COORDINATING CENTER
- Notice Date
- 2/27/2003
- Notice Type
- Modification
- 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
- NHLBI-HR-04-11
- Response Due
- 5/22/2003
- Archive Date
- 6/6/2003
- Point of Contact
- Gwennifer Epps, Administrative Intern, Phone 301-435-0340, Fax 301-480-3338, - Joanne Deshler, Contracting Officer, Phone (301) 435-0340, Fax (301) 480-3338,
- E-Mail Address
-
epps@nhlbi.nih.gov, jd52g@nih.gov
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- THIS PROPOSED PROGRAM IS 100% SET ASIDE FOR SMALL BUSINESS CONCERNS. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code is 518210 and the business size standard is not to exceed $21M. The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), National Institute of Health (NIH), will make available a request for proposal (RFP) to interested offerors with the ability to serve as a Data Coordinating Center (DCC) for a new five-year multi-center research program, the Lung Tissue Research Consortium (LTRC). The overall objective of the LTRC is to enable better management of lung diseases by increasing understanding of the pathogenetic mechanisms of these diseases through molecular histopathological studies of human lung tissues with and without disease. The LTRC will facilitate histopathological research of pulmonary diseases by collecting lung tissues from donors and preparing and distributing collections of tissue specimens to researchers within and outside the Consortium. Primary emphases will be on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Collections of specimens will be linked to extensive, individual clinical data appropriate to the particular disease. Donor subjects will be recruited for specific enrollment groups that are designed to address important research questions. The consortium will be comprised of Clinical Centers (CC), RFP-NHLBI-HR-04-08; a Tissue Processing and Distribution Center (TC), RFP-NHLBI-HR-09; a Radiology Center (RC), RFP-NHLBI-HR-10; and a DCC. Offerors are strongly encouraged to read the RFPs for all of these components of the LTRC to better understand the overall structure and function of the Consortium. The Principle Investigator of the DCC will have expertise in biostatistic and clinical research study design and support the protocol development, including power and sample size calculations. The Principle Investigator will be responsible for the statistical approaches and the overall performance within the DCC. The DCC will plan and make all arrangements for meetings and teleconference calls of the LTRC; participate and assist the TC in site visits of the CCs by the TC; verify that potential subjects are eligible for recruitment into specific enrollment groups; coordinate the electronic transfer of clinical data from the CCs to the DCC; maintain an electronic repository of clinical data collected from LTRC subjects, together with descriptive histopathological analyses from the TC and descriptive reports and radiographic measures of lung disease from the RC; maintain computer software necessary to process, store, and analyze data furnished by the CCs, TC, and RC; maintain a liaison with each CC to assist in the solution of operational problems involved in data collection and reporting; assist CC staff in data management and administrative functions; prepare public use data sets corresponding to tissue collections prepared by the TC; direct the TC and the RC to provide specified LTRC resources and public use data sets to investigators approved for access; perform statistical analyses for investigators for research studies that utilize LTRC materials; prepare progress reports of the LTRC; and develop, maintain and enhance a LTRC web site. ******This is not a RFP and the Government is not committed to award a contract pursuant to this notice. It is anticipated that RFP-NHLBI-HR-04-11, Lung Tissue Research Consortium: Data Coordinating Center, will be available on or fifteen (15) days after the publication of this notice through the NHLBI Website at: http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/funding/inits/index.htm#rfp and posted on FedBizOpps at: http://www.fedbizopps.gov. No collect calls will be accepted.
- Record
- SN00266469-W 20030301/030227213327 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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