SOURCES SOUGHT
A -- NTP Technical Report Preparation Support Services
- Notice Date
- 5/21/2008
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 511130
— Book Publishers
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Office of Acquisitions, Office of Management, P.O. Box 12874, 79 T.W. Alexander Dr, Bldg 4401, RTP, North Carolina, 27709
- ZIP Code
- 27709
- Solicitation Number
- NIHES2008050
- Point of Contact
- David C. Sedgley,, Phone: (919)541-4027
- E-Mail Address
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sedgley@niehs.nih.gov
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- THIS IS A SOURCES SOUGHT SYNOPSIS FOR WRITTEN INFORMATION ONLY. THIS IS NOT A SOLICITATION ANNOUNCEMENT FOR PROPOSALS AND NO CONTRACT WILL BE AWARDED FROM THIS ANNOUNCEMENT. This Sources Sought is a reissuance of a previous Sources Sought for solicitation number NIHES2008017 which has been cancelled as a result of a NAICS code change. This new sources sought is being issued under the NAICS code 511130, Book Publishers. The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences is requesting information to determine the availability of interested small businesses to compete for a contract to provide Technical Reports Preparation Support Services for the National Toxicology Program (NTP). The Contractor shall serve as a resource to the NTP for the preparation of documents describing toxicology and carcinogenicity studies of selected chemicals. Two principal reports series are to be produced. These reports are (1) book-length monographs (approximately 150 to 300 pages), and which provide background information on the biologic effects of a particular substance or set of chemicals and full details on the conduct, results, and interpretation of long-term (generally 2-year) NTP studies of the effects of the test chemical in rodents. The subject matter of these reports include toxicology, animal physiology, histologic and clinical pathology, chemistry, genetics, and statistics, and may also on occasion include pharmacology, molecular biology, and other related disciplines. (2) A second series, describes a variety of short-term toxicity studies in rodents. These reports are generally shorter in length (50 to 150 pages) and involve the same subject areas as in (1). The Contractor shall work in concert with NTP staff scientists and contractors to provide technical writing, copy editing, proofreading, word processing, desktop publishing, graphics, file research, and record keeping services. File research is defined as reviewing laboratory reports and extracting relevant experimental information and also capturing, downloading and reformatting files of tabular data. The Contractor shall engage in report preparation activities for approximately 40 reports in various stages at one time. Each report will be prepared in a series of four or five drafts, each incorporating text, materials, and revisions from NTP staff. Each report will be presented for outside peer review at one of the intermediate draft stages; some are conducted in public session. The Contractor shall provide a PDF file of the report for each draft stage and shall also prepare PDF files of the public review drafts and the final reports for display on the NIEHS World Wide Web servers and of the final revision of the report for use by printers. Approximately 24 reports total shall be presented for review and printed each year; the Contractor should expect to commence preparation of approximately two reports per month and to deliver approximately two drafts per week. The contractor shall archive all materials received, maintain a log of all materials received and delivered, and submit a biweekly status report detailing the status of each report in preparation and the cumulative labor hours spent on each report. All materials sent to the Contractor are considered the property of the Government, and upon completion of a report and delivery of the final version and files, the Contractor shall return to the Project Officer any of the materials as specified. Each report shall follow a standard format and will contain a cover, various front matter, and separate sections for an Abstract, Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, References, and various Appendixes. Page layout will include text, tables (both embedded in pages of text and multi-page data sets), line art graphics, and photomicrographs with captions. Reports are to be prepared with a desktop publishing package (e.g., QuarkXPress or Adobe Pagemaker) with the capability to incorporate the entire report, including all headings, text, tables, line art images, and photomicrographs, into a single file. The Contractor shall be able to produce hard copies, electronic files, and Portable Document (PDF) files of the entire report, or sections thereof, for use by the NTP. The Contractor shall be able to receive and capture electronic files with text, graphics, and tables from a variety of sources, platforms, and programs. Electronic data accessing methods will include reading disks, e-mail attachments (originating both from Macintosh and PC platforms), and World Wide Web sites. These files may be in a variety of formats and programs, including but not limited to MS Word or Word Perfect (various versions) for text files, Excel spreadsheets, and TIFF, GIF or JPEG files for photographs. The Contractor should also be able to read and capture text with citations incorporated in reference libraries (e.g., EndNote). The Contractor shall be responsible for ensuring the accuracy of transcription of any electronically converted or hand-keyed text or data. On occasion the Contractor may be asked to prepare graphical displays of data (e.g., time plots or bar graphs) or chemical structures and metabolism pathways. These should be prepared as transportable files with programs such as Photoshop for line art, Freehand for graphics, and Chem Draw or ISIS/Draw for chemical structures and not be embedded in a proprietary format. The contractor shall have the capability of scanning line art graphics (e.g., chemistry spectra, schematic diagrams) into electronic files at a resolution of 600-1200 dpi. In the event that photographs (rather than digital files) of photomicrographs are provided, the contractor shall have the capability of scanning the photograph at the original quality and producing a TIFF file at a final resolution of 300 dpi for color images or with gray tones for black and white images. During the report preparation process the Contractor shall be able to extract portions of entire sections or the report and send them as electronic files to NTP staff for review. The Contractor will certify that a written, enforced administrative process to identify, manage, reduce and eliminate conflicting financial interest is currently in effect. The anticipated effective date of the subsequent award is January 1, 2009. The performance period for the base contract is expected to be 60 months. Should the Government choose to exercise the time extension options for continued support; the period may be extended to December 31, 2018. For estimating purposes the Government anticipated an approximate level-of-effort of 11 person-years per year for the contract and each one-year option. The Government anticipates the participation of a project supervisor, a production supervisor, senior science writers, technical writers/copy editor, desktop publishing specialists and clerical staff. This is a follow-on requirement. Biotechnical Services, Inc., a woman-owned small business, at 4610 West Commercial Drive, North Little Rock, AR 72116-7059 is the incumbent. Interested organizations should submit only five (5) copies of their capability statement, not to exceed fifteen (15) pages in length, excluding standard brochures, for receipt by the agency within ten (10) days from the date of this announcement. All organizations that submitted capability statements under the previous NAICS code of 541712 for NIHES2008017 are required to submit a new capability statement for this new sources sought. Standard company brochures will not be considered a sufficient response to this sources sought synopsis. In the capabilities statements, contractors should provide their size status for the NAICS Code (511130) and whether or not they are a certified HUBZone, 8(a), Woman-Owned, Small Disadvantaged and/or Service Disabled Veteran-Owned or Veteran-Owned concern. An RFP will be synopsized on the FedBizOpps Website at a later date. Mail information to: David Sedgley, P.O. Box 12874, 79 T.W. Alexander Drive, Building 4401, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709; or by FAX to (301) 435-2709. Electronic submissions on a CD will be accepted (one copy). Electronic submissions by FAX (one copy) should be sent to (301) 541-5594. For commercial delivery, send to David Sedgley, Third Floor Desk, 79 T.W. Alexander Drive, Building 4401, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709.
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