SOLICITATION NOTICE
Q -- MRI Diagnosis of Cardiovascular/Lung Diseases in Children
- Notice Date
- 7/22/2008
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 622110
— General Medical and Surgical Hospitals
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Rockledge Dr. Bethesda, MD, Office of Acquisitions, 6701 Rockledge Dr RKL2/6100 MSC 7902, Bethesda, Maryland, 20892-7902
- ZIP Code
- 20892-7902
- Solicitation Number
- NHLBI-PB(HL)-2008-197-SLC
- Response Due
- 8/26/2008
- Archive Date
- 9/10/2008
- Point of Contact
- Sharon L Cummings,, Phone: (301) 435-0352, Kathleen J. Marsden,, Phone: (301) 435-0364
- E-Mail Address
-
cummings@nhlbi.nih.gov, km66x@nih.gov
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) has a long history of translating scientific and technical developments into clinical practice. The Translational Medicine Branch of NHLBI consists of scientists and physicians with expertise in pulmonary and cardiovascular diseases together with a world class group of physical scientists specializing in the application of real time Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) approaches to clinical sciences. Despite the fact that NIH's reputation is well known, it does not as yet have a robust clinical MRI diagnosis and treatment program in children's cardiovascular/lung diseases. As a result the NHLBI is seeking to enter into a collaborative initiative with a local institution with extensive experience in the clinical diagnosis, treatment and management of children's cardiovascular and lung diseases. The primary goal is to develop a program to conduct investigational studies on the use of MRI in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases in children. All patients recruited through the NHLBI for MRI study purposes would be followed/managed clinically by the contractor. The successful contractor will provide the day to day clinical management and care of all the patients. This would have to be accomplished through a successful pre-existing infrastructure including 24/7 physician and nurse coordinator availability in support of the MRI patient populations. Patients referred to the contractor will be seen and evaluated at the contractor's facilities. They will be given the option of enrollment in one of more of the collaborative NHLBI/contractor clinical trials. Though it is envisioned that most clinical activity will occur at the contractor's facilities, some patients may be referred to the NIH Clinical Center for specialized studies. The contractor's existing MRI facility will be critical to the program's needs. The contractor must have a successful academic pediatric medicine program in the metropolitan District of Columbia region in order to allow patients to been at both locations. This is not a request for proposal (RFP) and the Government is not committed to award a contract pursuant to this announcement. It is anticipated that an RFP detailing specifics of the project as well as information pertinent to the development of an offeror's proposal will be available on or about August 04, 2008.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: Contractor's facilities/National Institutes of Health, National Heart Lung and Blood Institute., United States
- Record
- SN01619798-W 20080724/080722223123-ff884fff692971434dd73d6a33988489 (fbodaily.com)
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