SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- Haz-Map Udates and Enhancements
- Notice Date
- 8/1/2007
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 621111
— Offices of Physicians (except Mental Health Specialists)
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Library of Medicine, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD, 20894, UNITED STATES
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- NLM-07-172-RHW
- Response Due
- 8/15/2007
- Archive Date
- 8/30/2007
- Description
- It is the intent of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), Division of Specialized Information Services (SIS), to acquire professional services, on a sole source basis, from Dr. Jay Brown of Indiana, for the purposes of updating, enhancing and providing specialized consultation on the Haz-Map database. The North American Industry Classification System Code is 621111 and the business size standard is $9.0. This is a 100% small business set-aside. NLM anticipates that award will be made on or about August 16, 2007. The period of performance shall be twelve (12) months from the effective date of award with four (4) one year options. BACKGROUND The National Library of Medicine (NLM), Division of Specialized Information Services (SIS) offers a variety of toxicology information to the public through the World Wide Web. This information takes the form of bibliographic files such as TOXLINE and data files such as the Hazardous Substances Databank (HSDB). Most files are not structured in such a way that a symptom developed in the workplace such as ?rash? can be tracked back to a given chemical or chemical class and/or type of job. Haz-Map created by Dr. Jay Brown is such a database and it provides linkage between symptoms, jobs, and chemicals. Specialized Information Services Division wishes to provide access to information in Haz-Map. The experimental Haz-Map web site was made available to the public in May 2002 and since then the file has been updated and the web interface has been refined. CONTRACT REQUIREMENTS Tasks may include but are not limited to the following: 1. Update the data in Haz-Map for completeness and compatibility with the SIS suite of databases. 2. Provide a list of core journals that are used for updating the content of the file and search PubMed for relevant information. 3. Provide Internet sources of relevant images for diseases and findings. 4. Enhance the job table by adding information on cancer risk. This information can be added in a new field. 5. Consider ways for including new jobs not classified in the SOC code. 6. Add or modify information as needed. A monthly progress report is required. The progress report should include documentation of all changes, additions and deletion to the database. Deliverables include an updated database of Haz-Map. The NLM Project Officers will assign tasks, and work will be reviewed for completeness and timeliness. Pursuant to 41 U.S.C. 253(c)(1) as set forth in the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) at 6.302, Dr. Jay Brown is the only known source that is capable of fulfilling this requirement. Dr. Brown is uniquely qualified to offer these services. He is the originator and sole author of Haz-Map and makes it available to NLM as a public resource. Dr. Brown holds M.D. and M.P.D. degree and is Board Certified in Occupational Medicine by the American Board of Preventive Medicine and has over ten years of experience working in occupational medicine clinics. In order for NLM/SIS to continue to further their mission, the capabilities provided by Dr. Brown and Haz-Map is needed. This is not a Request for Quotations (RFQ), nor is a RFQ available. However, if any interested party believes it has the capability to fulfill the above requirement; it may submit a statement of capabilities. The capabilities statement should demonstrate that the interested party is able to provide the professional technical services as specified above. All capabilities statements received in response to this notice will be evaluated based on the following evaluation criteria: 1) Key personnel must have earned a MD degree, Master in Public Health and be Board Certified in Occupational Medicine (35%); 2) experience in formatting developing and maintaining biomedical relational databases and the ability to assemble, organize, analyze and disseminate a variety of biomedical materials in electronic environment for the use of public domain (25%); 3) ability to demonstrate extensive working knowledge and experience working with medical literature and chemical information regulations (20%); 4) key personnel must have a least 5 years experience in occupational medicine clinics and an extensive working knowledge of them (20%). Capability statements must be received in the contracting office by 3:00 PM EDT August 15, 2007. Faxed capability statements are NOT authorized. Questions must be submitted in writing to Robin Hope-Williams at rhwilli@mail.nih.gov or Erin Goldstein at egoldstein@mail.nlm.nih.gov. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed requirement based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information received will be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. No collect calls will be accepted. In order to receive an award, contractors must be registered and have valid certification in the Central Contractor Registration (CCR) and the Online Representations and Certifications Application (ORCA).
- Place of Performance
- Address: Bethesda
- Zip Code: 20894
- Country: UNITED STATES
- Zip Code: 20894
- Record
- SN01358586-W 20070803/070801220701 (fbodaily.com)
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