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FBO DAILY ISSUE OF MAY 10, 2003 FBO #0527
SOLICITATION NOTICE

Q -- Second Year Urology Surgery Residents

Notice Date

5/8/2003
 

Notice Type

Solicitation Notice
 

Contracting Office

Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, Research Contracts Br., 6120 Executive Blvd. EPS Suite 600, Rockville, MD, 20852
 

ZIP Code

20852
 

Solicitation Number

NCI-30055-NG
 

Response Due

5/23/2003
 

Archive Date

6/7/2003
 

Point of Contact

Malinda Holdcraft, Purchasing Agent, Phone (301) 402-4509, Fax (301) 402-4513, - Renita Smith, Contract Specialist, Phone 301-496-8612, Fax 301-480-0241,
 

E-Mail Address

holdcram@exchange.nih.gov, rs442i@nih.gov
 

Description

The National Cancer Institute (NCI) Urologic Oncology Branch (UOB), plans to procure two, second year urology residence to perform services and support from Georgetown University Medical Center Operations, 4000 Reservoir Road NW 120 Bldg. 10, Washington, D.C., 20007. The acquisition is being conducted under the simplified acquisition procedures authorized in FAR Part 13. The North American Industry Classification System code is 622110 and the business size standard is $29M. Background: There are very few opportunities to obtain urologic surgery physicians to evaluate and manage patients at the NCI. The urologic surgery program at the National Cancer Institute evaluates patients with known or suspected urologic cancer and manages a large number of patients with hereditary forms of cancers of the kidney and other organs. These patients are evaluated in the Clinical Center of the NIH and are entered into clinical trials involving medical as well as surgical therapy. NCI has a need for two second year urological surgery residents in approved training programs to see the patients, manage them in the clinic, as inpatients and in the operating room under the direct supervision of an NCI urological surgery attending surgeon. The NCI urologic surgery program is also responsible for all urologic care at the Clinical Center, NIH. Second year urological surgical residents have the unique skills and training and education required to evaluate and manage patients with urologic disorders at the NCI. It is important that the residents be from a urologic surgery program that is less than one hour from NIH and that the urology program that they are from be approved by the Residency Review Committee (RRC) for this activity. The residents must be in an RRC-approved residency program and the RRC must have approved this activity. This is important for the educational mission of the Urologic Oncology Branch and for the Urologic Oncology Fellowship program at the NCI. Physicians at the Urologic Oncology Branch, CCR, NCI have had a long standing relationship and are conducting joint collaborative studies with physicians from the Division of Urology at the Georgetown University Medical Center. Contractor Requirements: The physicians need to be residents in urologic surgery and have at lease one year of urological surgical training experience. Residents must be able to manage patients with complex urologic disorders before surgery, in the operating room and after surgery in the post-operative period. They also must be able to manage critical urological surgical emergencies in pre and post-operative patients. These physicians shall provide urologic medical care for the Urologic Oncology Branch (UOB) of the National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institutes of Health (NIH). The urology residents shall evaluate urologic surgical patients in the clinic and shall assist in surgery in the operating room. All activities shall be performed under the direction of an attending urologic surgeon. Residents shall rotate on the Urologic Surgery service and assist with the management of in-patients as well as outpatients at the Clinical Center, NIH. Residents shall take night and weekend call while on the urologic surgery rotation at the Clinical Center. Residents shall attend scheduled patient care rounds and didactic lecture sessions. Residents assigned to UOB/NCI rotation shall work on the clinical service. Each resident must be credentialed at UOB/NCI at least one (1) month prior to assignment at NIH. The Urologic Surgery Residents from the Georgetown University Hospital shall serve on the clinical service of the Urologic Oncology Branch. In that capacity they shall manage patients in the clinic, in the operating room and in the in-patient units. Residents shall participate in surgical management of patients with complex urologic cancers and in clinical trials for patients with Genitourinary Malignancies. Residents shall participate in clinical trials and assist in the operating room and in the clinic. Residents shall learn about research protocols, about novel approaches to surgical as well as medical therapy and about the conduct of clinical trials. Residents shall also get exposure to basic research and to the fundamental aspect of cancer genetics. Residents will learn advanced techniques for laparoscopic management of localized as well as advanced GU malignancies as well as the critical role of a team approach to management of patients with advanced urologic malignancies. The residents shall be assigned to the clinical service of the Urologic Oncology Branch for a 6-month period each. Residents shall manage in-patients, outpatients and assist with surgery in the operating room. They shall take night and weekend calls on the Urologic Oncology Clinical call schedule. Their entire clinical activities shall be under the direct supervision of an attending urologic surgeon. The Urology Residents are responsible for completing the physician credentialing including the completion and transmission to the Urologic Oncology Branch original signed documents to include a Record of Participation in Patient Care, Delineation and Privileges, and Applications for Short-Term Appointment. During the period in which any physician is assigned to this contract, the physicians must always remain within commuting distance of the NIH Clinical Center. Residents shall be required to provide in house medical coverage at night, weekends, and holidays as assigned, and wear name tags or ID badges at all times. Residents shall accept that they are subject to a written evaluation of their professional performance at the completion of each tour/rotation at NCI. Contractor shall provide liability insurance for the resident physicians. The urology residents shall not be covered by the Federal Tort Claims Act. The residents shall accept that all patient files are the property of the UOB/NCI and are subject to the Confidentiality clause contained herein. Any and all data, including information generated on computer is subject to the Confidentiality clause. Residents must be within commuting distance of the NIH Clinical Center, Bethesda, MD. Period of Performance: Upon award through 12 months. The contractor shall provide two second year urology residents for the period of six (6) months each. Georgetown University Medical Center is the only known source that can provide two second year residents to perform the aforementioned services. Georgetown is also the only known University Urology Department who can send urological surgical second year residents to NCI for 12 months who are approved for this activity by the Urologic Surgery Residency Review Committee. It is also important to have highly skilled surgeons from a program such as Georgetown that has high clinical standards who can provide outstanding surgical and medical care to the patient population at NCI. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive quotation. However, if any interested party believes it can meet the above requirements, it may submit a statement of capabilities. The capability statement and any other furnished information must be in writing and must contain material in sufficient detail to allow NCI to determine if the party can fully meet the requirements herein. Capability statements must be received in the contracting office by 1:00 PM EDT (local Washington DC time) on May 23, 2003. If you have any questions, please submit them in writing via electronic mail to Malinda Holdcraft, Purchasing Agent on holdcram@exchange.nih.gov or by fax 301-402-4513. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed requirement based on responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information received shall be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. No collect calls will be accepted.
 

Place of Performance

Address: NIH/NCI, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD

Zip Code: 20892

Country: USA
 

Record

SN00320250-W 20030510/030508213255 (fbodaily.com)
 

Source

FedBizOpps.gov Link to This Notice
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