SPECIAL NOTICE
B -- Pakistan Genetics Disorders
- Notice Date
- 4/16/2010
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 541690
— Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, Office of Administration, 6011 Executive Blvd, 5th Floor, Rockville, Maryland, 20852-3804, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20852-3804
- Solicitation Number
- LG-1547307
- Archive Date
- 5/6/2010
- Point of Contact
- M. Lloyd Garnes, Phone: 3014023341
- E-Mail Address
-
garnesl@od.nih.gov
(garnesl@od.nih.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The National Institutes of Health (NIH) intends to negotiate under the authority of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 13.105 sole source with Allama Iqbal Medical College for the following: The NDICD has maintained a longstanding collaboration in Pakistan to study the genetics of hearing and speech disorders. Researchers in the Laboratory of Molecular Genetics (Thomas B. Friedman and Dennis Drayna, PhD) work with Professor S. Riazuddin's Laboratory for Research in Genetic Diseases, previously at the National Centre of Excellence in Molecular Biology (NCEMB) and presently at the Allama Iqbal Medical Research Centre(AIMRC). This collaboration involves ascertaining families in Pakistan with hearing and speech disorders and mapping the underlying genes for theses disorders. Two protocols at the NIH have been approved for these studies: (1. Nonsyndronic hereditary hearing impairment-gene mapping protocol number is OH93-DC-016, and 2. Genetic Studies of Stuttering, protocol 97-DC-0057. Thomas B. Friedman, PhD, Chief, Laboratory of Molecular Genetics is the PI for the hereditary deafness protocol, and Dennis Drayna PhD is the PI on the stuttering protocol. Andrew Griffith, MD,PhD is the Medical Advisory investigator on both protocols. DNA samples from several hundred extended families have already been collected for these protocols under previous professional service contracts (PSC's) with Professor Riazuddin. Professor Riazzudin's laboratory is the premier research facility for research on human genetic diseases in Pakistan. He has established collaborations with many laboratories in Europe and the US. Most notableof these endeavors in addition to those at the NIH are collaborations with Richard J. Roberts previously at Cold Spring Harbor Labs; Lawrence Loeb and Eugene Nester at the University of Washington, Seattle, Marc Van Montgu at Ghent University, Belgium, Hans van Bookhoven at Radbound University Nijmejen Medical Centre, Netherlands and Robert H. Ropers at the Max Planck Institute, Berlin, Germany. These collaborations are built on the strengths of participating laboratories designed to advance common goals. The US National Science Foundation (International Program), the Rockefeller Foundation and the National Research Council have also funded some of these USA-Pakistan collaborations. Dr. Riazuddin's Laboratory is funded by the Pakistani federal government, andworks at the frontiers of molecular biological research. It is advised by the following Foreign Scientists Advisory Council Dr. Roger McMacken E.V. McCollum Professor & Chairman Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Again, this is a notice of intent to negotiate on a sole source basis with Allama Iqbal Medical College for the continuation of services and is not a request for competitive proposals. The Government intends to issue a firm-fixed price purchase order for the services requested utilizing simplified acquisition procedures. Interested parties may identify their interest and capability to respond to the requirement or submit capability statements by email to Garnesl@od.nih.gov, Contract Specialist by April. 21, 2010 at 1PM EST. A determination by the Government not to compete this 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.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: Bethesda, Maryland, 20892, United States
- Zip Code: 20892
- Zip Code: 20892
- Record
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