SOLICITATION NOTICE
D -- Technical Support Services for Research and Development Activities in the Office of Medical Applications of Research, OMAR
- Notice Date
- 6/27/2008
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 541611
— Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, Office of Administration, 6011 Executive Blvd, Rm 538, Rockville, Maryland, 20892-7663
- ZIP Code
- 20892-7663
- Solicitation Number
- NIHOD2007019
- Response Due
- 7/22/2008
- Point of Contact
- Terita R Stevenson, Phone: 301-402-3727
- E-Mail Address
-
stevenst@od.nih.gov
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- This Sources Sought Notice is for information and planning purposes only and shall not be construed as a solicitation or as an obligation on the part of the National Institutes of Health, NIH. The purpose of this Sources Sought is to seek the availability and capability of small business concerns, including 8(a) small business and/or small qualified small business concerns [including Small Disadvantaged Businesses (SDB), Woman-owned Small Businesses (WOSB), Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone) Small Businesses, Veteran-Owned Small Businesses (VOSB) and Service-Disabled Veteran-owned Small Businesses (SDVOSB] that are interested in and capable of performing the work described herein: Provide technical support for the Office of Medical Applications of Research, OMAR in fulfilling its responsibilities to identify and assess medical technologies and to make judgments as to their suitability for incorporation into medical practice and to further the understanding and advancement of disease prevention research and health promotion. Specifically, the Contractor shall be required to furnish administrative, management, and clerical support for the Consensus Development Conference, CDC meetings and the pre-CDC meetings. The Contractor shall also be required to perform tasks such as technical writing and reporting, media relations, scientific journal routing, teleconferencing, speech writing, and other channels of medical communications. The Contract shall conduct technology assessment seminars and workshops, utilizing outside experts and consultants, and write scientific papers/reviews on a particular technology. Finally, the Contractor shall evaluate previous and ongoing technology assessment/technology transfer activities to assess the extent, effectiveness and impact of OMARs dissemination efforts and economic analyses of specific conference technologies. The Contractor must have the capability for a 24 hour turnaround time for the preparation and revision of typed materials, such as agendas and abstracts, as well as slides, during the entire consensus development conference planning process and especially during the actual consensus conferences. The Contractor must also have conference facilities to accommodate 30 people, including adjoining support facilities (clerical, duplicating, food serving, break-out rooms, etc.). If a Contractor does not own their own conference facility, they must be able to provide a written rental commitment for conference facilities through June 2013. This conference facility must be located proximate to the NIH campus (within approximately 30 minutes commuting time at any given time of the day). All responsible sources may submit a proposal which shall be considered. No collect calls will be accepted. THE SOLICITATION WILL BE AVAILABLE ELECTRONICALLY ONLY. OFFERORS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR ROUTINELY CHECKING THIS WEBSITE FOR ANY POSSIBLE SOLICITATION AMENDMENTS THAT MAY BE ISSUED. NO INDIVIDUAL NOTIFICATION OF ANY AMENDMENTS WILL BE PROVIDED. Capability statements must specify the offeror's business size and type, and demonstrate similar work that has been performed in the past. Capability statements should also clearly demonstrate the offeror's ability to fully meet the requirements specified above. This is not a request for proposals. The intention of this announcement is to survey the market for potential offerors. Questions regarding this requirement must be submitted in writing and directed toTerita Stevenson, Contract Specialist, 6011 Executive Blvd. Room 539C, Rockville, MD 20852. Interested qualified small business organizations should submit a tailored capability statement for this requirement, not to exceed 15 single-sided pages (including all attachments, resumes, charts, etc.) presented in single-space and using a 12-point font size minimum, that clearly details the ability to perform the aspects of the notice described above and in the draft SOW. All proprietary information should be marked as such. Statements should also include an indication of current certified small business status; this indication should be clearly marked on the first page of your capability statement (preferably placed under the eligible small business concerns name and address). Responses will be reviewed only by NIH personnel and will be held in a confidential manner. In the event a solicitation is issued, NAICS code 541611 with a size standard of $6 million is being considered. Interested firms responding to this market survey must provide (a) capability statement demonstrating their experience, skills and capability to fulfill the Governments requirements for the above. A copy of the capability statement must be received at the address identified in this synopsis no later than July 22, 2008 at 2:00 p.m. This synopsis is for information and planning purposes and is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government, nor will the Government pay for information solicited. In order to receive an award at NIH the contractor must have a valid registration in the Central Contractor Registration (CCR) www.ccr.gov. The clauses are available in full text at http://www.arnet.gov/far. Inquiries regarding this procurement may be made to the Office of Acquisition, Office of Logistics and Acquisition Operations, 6011 Executive Blvd., Room 539C, Rockville, Maryland 20892, Attention: Terita R. Stevenson.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: Rockville, Maryland, 20852, United States
- Zip Code: 20852
- Zip Code: 20852
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