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FBO DAILY ISSUE OF OCTOBER 10, 2004 FBO #1049
SOLICITATION NOTICE

R -- INDEXING OF BIOMEDICAL LITERATURE

Notice Date

10/8/2004
 

Notice Type

Solicitation Notice
 

NAICS

541690 — Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services
 

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

05-101-KS
 

Response Due

11/23/2004
 

Small Business Set-Aside

Total Small Business
 

Description

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) has a need for indexing of approximately 550,000 biomedical and life sciences journal articles per year for citation in MEDLINE/PubMed. Indexing is to be performed over a one-year period (April 1, 2005 through March 31, 2006), with options to extend for four additional one-year periods. This is a 100% small business set-aside. Most of the articles to be indexed are in English, with lesser amounts in German (approximately 8,000 articles annually), French (8,500 articles), Japanese (6,500 articles), Russian (6,500 articles), Spanish (6,000 articles), Italian (2,500 articles) and sixteen other foreign languages (each fewer than 1,000 articles annually). The articles to be indexed are in highly technical, scientific, biomedical and life sciences subject areas (e.g., anesthesiology, biochemistry, cardiology, genetics, hematology, immunology, microbiology, molecular biology, neurology, pharmacology, radiology, etc.) and are from journals selected by NLM for citation in MEDLINE. Indexing will be performed in accordance with established policies and procedures set forth in NLM?s Indexing Manual. Indexers must analyze each journal article for subject content and apply appropriate subject headings drawn from NLM?s controlled vocabulary, Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). As part of the analysis and indexing of each journal article, gene indexing will be performed when appropriate. Gene indexing will consist of the creation of an annotated link between the citation for the journal article and the appropriate record for a gene or protein in the Entrez Gene database of NLM?s National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). Approximately 55,000 gene indexing links will be created annually. Indexers who work on this project must complete the standard training regimen provided at NLM?s facilities in Bethesda, Maryland. The training regimen, taught by a team of senior Index Section revisers, and scheduled by NLM, consists of formal two-weeks of Indexing Class and informal one-on-one training and feedback. The total formal and informal training regimen requires trainees to work on site at NLM for at least six weeks, depending on the proficiency of the individual. The minimum educational requirement for proposed trainees is a Bachelor?s degree with a major in the biomedical sciences, or its equivalent in work experience in a biomedical field. Journals to be indexed will be assigned by NLM to individual indexers in batches containing approximately one week?s work capacity and based on the indexer?s language and subject capabilities. NLM prefers that indexers work in the local Washington, DC metropolitan area and requires local work to be completed and returned within one week of assignment at NLM. NLM will allow indexers to work outside the Washington, DC area, but the contractor must then bear all costs related to pick-up, delivery and return of journals between NLM and indexers, and journals must be completed and returned to NLM within fourteen days of pick-up. Rapid processing of work is required to ensure the currency of citations in MEDLINE. Average production from trainee indexers in past years has been 55 articles per week during the first six months; average weekly production from individual trainees during the first six months has ranged from 27 to 97 articles per week. Indexers will perform work online using NLM?s Web-based indexing system, the Data Creation and Maintenance System (DCMS). Online work will be performed using Government equipment loaned by NLM for installation at individual work sites. Equipment will consist of a specially-configured workstation and telecommunications setup. Indexing is also sought for up to 6,000 chemical queries per year to be indexed by chemical specialists, and for up to 1,800 records per year of ongoing health services research projects for the National Information Center on Health Services Research and Health Care Technology (NICHSR). Multiple awards are anticipated for this project. Awards will be based primarily on the merits of the proposed indexing personnel, ranked by experience with NLM indexing, past performance with any form of indexing or work involving analysis of the biomedical literature, and subject and foreign language expertise. All responsible small businesses may submit a proposal which will be considered by the NLM.
 

Place of Performance

Address: 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda/MD

Zip Code: 20894

Country: USA
 

Record

SN00691814-W 20041010/041009084840 (fbodaily.com)
 

Source

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