SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- Patient Recruitment Support for the NIAID-DCR
- Notice Date
- 2/18/2011
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 541990
— All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases/AMOB, 10401 Fernwood Drive, Suite 2NE70, MSC 4811, Bethesda, Maryland, 20817
- ZIP Code
- 20817
- Solicitation Number
- NIAID-AO-2011-052
- Point of Contact
- Ivan Hernandez, Phone: 301-402-6954, Terrie L Nestor, Phone: 301-402-6790
- E-Mail Address
-
ihernandez@niaid.nih.gov, tnestor@niaid.nih.gov
(ihernandez@niaid.nih.gov, tnestor@niaid.nih.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) has a requirement for the facilitation of patient recruitment both locally and nationally. The contractor will be required to establish and maintain relationships with community-based, public health and hospital-based clinics in the Washington-Baltimore metropolitan area. The contractor will be required to support selected NIAID protocols for which nation-wide recruitment is required and provide personnel support to the NIAID intramural patient recruitment efforts. Contractor will develop and distribute informational materials appropriate for patient and physician populations. Contractor will design, develop, and implement an annual recruitment campaign, which will include four major media campaigns, quarterly outreach campaigns, and targeted mailings of informational material. Contractor shall also provide transportation services for patients and specimens. Offerors's proposals must include evidence that they have established relationships with the clinics named by NIAID and of these facilities' willingness to participate in the recruitment efforts by working directly with the contractor. This evidence will be provided in the form of Commitment Letters signed by each clinic. NIAID currently has relationships with the following clinics: Upper Cardozo Health Center, Unity Health Care, Inc. (Washington, D.C.), Carl Vogel Center (Washington, D.C), La Clinica Del Pueblo (Washington, D. C.), Whitman-Walker Clinics (Max Robinson- Washington, D.C.), Family and Medical Counseling Services (Washington, D. C), Phoenix Health Center, Unity Health Care (Washington, D. C), Washington Hospital Center, Infectious Diseases Clinic (Washington, D.C), Casey Health Center (Alexandria, V.A.), Walker-Jones Health Center, Unity Health Care (Washington, D. C), Prince Georges County Health Department, and Greater Baden Medical Services (Prince Georges County). A cost plus fixed fee award is anticipated. The contract is expected to begin on or about September 29, 2011 for a one year base period, and include options for four additional 12 months periods. The contract will contain FAR 52.217-8. The solicitation will be available for download from www.fedbizopps.gov on or about March 11, 2011. No hard copies will be distributed. Please forward all questions electronically to Ivan Hernandez at ih2a@nih.gov.
- Web Link
-
FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/HHS/NIH/AMOB/NIAID-AO-2011-052/listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Address: The main campus of the National institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland and at the above mentioned community-based, public health and hospital-based clinics in the Washington-Baltimore metropolitan area within 50 miles of the National institutes of Health, Bethesda campus., Maryland, Virginia, District of Columbia, United States
- Record
- SN02383928-W 20110220/110218234416-cb6e63282fcd8bdd8fd67fe035546d2a (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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