MODIFICATION
A -- Specimen Resource Locator
- Notice Date
- 6/7/2010
- Notice Type
- Modification/Amendment
- NAICS
- 541511
— Custom Computer Programming Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, Bldg 427, Room 12, Frederick, Maryland, 21702
- ZIP Code
- 21702
- Solicitation Number
- S10-149
- Archive Date
- 7/10/2010
- Point of Contact
- Alexander Konev, Phone: 301-228-4323, Jennifer Thomas, Phone: 301/228-4004
- E-Mail Address
-
konevas@mail.nih.gov, thomasjennifer@mail.nih.gov
(konevas@mail.nih.gov, thomasjennifer@mail.nih.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Email questions in writing to konevas@mai.nih.gov by 2:00 (EDT) June 8, 2010. The lack of standardized, high-quality biospecimens is widely recognized as a significant roadblock to cancer research. The National Cancer Institute (NCI), through its Office of Biorepositories and Biospecimen Research (OBBR), is leading a national initiative to systematically address and resolve one of the most difficult problems that will drive 21st century cancer research: the limited availability of carefully collected and controlled, high-quality human biospecimens annotated with essential clinical data and properly consented for broad investigational use. This issue has been repeatedly identified by the scientific community as a leading obstacle to progress in post-genomics cancer research, and the NCI is committed to resolving this complex problem through a multifaceted approach that addresses those factors under our control and provides insights that will inform broader policy making in this area. The NCI through its Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology (NCI CBIIT) has sponsored the development of the Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid® (caBIG®) initiative, a common informatics infrastructure that incorporates and encourages the use of common data standards. caBIG® is an open source, open access information network connecting the cancer research community and enabling the sharing of data and tools. Using the caBIG® infrastructure, researchers and clinicians can accelerate their ability to share, integrate and analyze data. By providing a comprehensive collection of interoperable software tools, data standards, and computing infrastructure, the caBIG® initiative promotes data and knowledge exchange, simplifies collaboration, and ultimately helps realize the potential of molecular medicine. The existing NCI Specimen Resource Locator (SRL) is the product from the NCI Cancer Diagnosis Program (CDP) to create a cancer-focused locator service. Despite a low level of maintenance the use and wide sources of inquiries for this application has remained relatively consistent over time signifying an unfulfilled need for the locating specimens effectively. While the present SRL makes no use of caBIG® technology the next phase will employ several including but not limited to: caGrid, Cancer Data Standards Registry and Repository (caDSR), Enterprise Vocabulary Services (EVS), and the caCORE Software Development Kit (SDK). This will enable the creation and sharing of Common Biorepository Model (CBM) grid nodes at biorepositories in a revised SRL and allow for the sharing of de-identified summary-level specimen collection information. In addition, this will also enable the use of other caBIG® compatible systems (such as caTissue Suite and caHUB Portal) and non-caBIG® applications to use CBM as a service. The objective of this RFP is the ongoing development of SRL. The initial focus of the contract will be on the Common Biorepository Model followed by the SRL web application with any needed architecture or updates to support the proposed SRL components. CBIIT has adopted a modified Unified Process Framework (UPF) methodology for software development. Each release cycle of the product can be divided in four phases - inception, elaboration, construction and transition. While individual teams may propose to employ various versions of UPF (e.g., Agile, Extreme or a more traditional RUP style development cycle), the goal is to build and deliver software iteratively with transparent methodologies and clear milestones to avoid a "waterfall" like development cycle. It is expected that there will approximately two release cycles per contract year over the total Period of Performance.
- Web Link
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FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/HHS/NIH/FCRF/S10-149/listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Address: The majority of the work can be performed at the subcontractor’s facilities; but, with a preference to co-location at the NCI CBIIT office. However, the SAIC-F COTR may ask that specific tasks, such as testing and demonstrations, be performed at other locations., United States
- Record
- SN02170690-W 20100609/100607235239-cf458e7442ce8be3fe19b0971324fb28 (fbodaily.com)
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