SOURCES SOUGHT
R -- Multidisciplinary Studies of Nutrition and Cancer
- Notice Date
- 4/7/2011
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541990
— All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, Office of Acquisitions, 6120 Executive Blvd., EPS Suite 600, Rockville, Maryland, 20852
- ZIP Code
- 20852
- Solicitation Number
- HHS-NIH-NCI-SBSS-ETSB-11003-49
- Archive Date
- 5/6/2011
- Point of Contact
- Catharine Muir, Phone: (301) 435-3779, Lisa Coleman, Phone: (301) 496-8605
- E-Mail Address
-
muirca@mail.nih.gov, licoleman@mail.nih.gov
(muirca@mail.nih.gov, licoleman@mail.nih.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Synopsis: This is a Small Business Sources Sought notice. This is NOT a solicitation for proposals, proposal abstracts, or quotations. The purpose of this notice is to obtain information regarding: (1) the availability and capability of qualified small business sources; (2) whether they are small businesses; HUBZone small businesses; service-disabled, veteran-owned small businesses; 8(a) small businesses; veteran-owned small businesses; woman-owned small businesses; or small disadvantaged businesses; and (3) their size classification relative to the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for the proposed acquisition. Your responses to the information requested will assist the Government in determining the appropriate acquisition method, including whether a set-aside is possible. An organization that is not considered a small business under the applicable NAICS code should not submit a response to this notice. This requirement is assigned a code of 541990 in the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), and the size standard for such requirements is $7 million. The National Institute of Cancer (NCI), Nutrition Epidemiology Branch (NEB), within the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics (DCEG), is anticipating re-competing a contract for support for both methodologic and substantive nutritional epidemiology research projects and studies. This support services contract is essential to NEB to maintain its program of studies that includes: • Multi-centric/multi-institutional studies (often international) that require extensive coordination. • Focused studies designed to follow-up on important scientific discoveries and/or to capitalize on time-sensitive opportunities for studies in areas of relevance to NEB. • Etiologic research studies; methods development for future etiologic studies; improving exposure assessment for diet and physical activity studies; support for NEB administration related to the studies. The contract will establish a mechanism to provide all the services required to support over seventeen (17) program studies that are time sensitive and/or require coordination across multiple sites and institutions. Some of the major activities of the contract include: - Development of coordination and liaison at a local or international level with collaborating investigators or institutions whose cooperation is needed for the conduct of a study. - Assistance in the design and pilot testing of forms required for field investigations (e.g., questionnaires, abstracting forms, coding forms, manuals for field procedures and other documents). - Supervision and management of field operations including hiring, training and supervision of field personnel (interviewers, abstractors, telephone screeners, coders, phlebotomists and others). - Identification and location of study subjects. - Collecting data (interviewing/record abstraction, biologic specimen collection and processing). - Data entry and maintenance of tracking systems for data and biologic specimens. - Data reduction activities (coding, keying, and editing) of data collected into a format suitable for computer analysis. - Quality control and standardization for producing appropriate and valid data. - Support and manage web-based studies - Translate data collection instruments or manuals into appropriate languages for foreign studies. Back-translate either a portion of the material or all the material into English to assure that the original material has not been changed by the translation. - Support a large cohort study to trace more than 500,000 participants, link participants to vital statistics data such as Social Security Administration Death Master File and National Death Index, link to health care data such as Medicare and identify cancer cases by linking participants to more than a dozen state cancer registries and To be deemed capable of providing the current need for the contract the offeror must submit a tailored, written capability statement. Organizations that submit capability statements in response to this notice will be evaluated against the following technical areas of experience and expertise: 1. Personnel/Experience: a) Organizational experience in conducting and simultaneously managing several concurrent, multiple, large (including international) cohort and case-control epidemiological studies. b) Experience with oversight of large, complex contracts c) Ability of the Offeror to respond quickly to changes in priorities and to supply support to urgent new efforts as directed by the Project Officer. d) The offeror must demonstrate how it will accomplish the task of attendance at face-to-face discussions, on a nearly daily basis, between the NCI Project Officers and the Project Director or project managers of individual studies in order to monitor and review progress on project activities. e) The offeror shall provide the name of the principal investigator, his/her professional qualifications and specific experience as a key investigator in large international nutritional epidemiology studies with biospecimen collection, including blood and possibly other specimens such as urine, saliva, feces, tumor, etc., repository monitoring and specimen storage and specimen shipping. f) The offeror shall demonstrate that the proposed staff have previous experience in carrying out nutritional epidemiologic studies in multiple geographic areas, including subject identification, recruitment, and protection, design of data collection instruments, data collection, biospecimen collection and shipping, and coding (standard disease, occupational, and geographic) and keying of data. g) The offeror shall demonstrate that the proposed staff has previous successful experience in carrying out the requirements of the services stated herein. 2. Facilities: The offeror shall have the necessary dedicated office space and accommodations to fulfill the requirements. Organizations shall provide a description of security of Medical Record Room, accessibility of medical records to NCI staff and tracking of records. The offeror must demonstrate how it will maintain the Medical Record Room at a secure location which will assure that patient records will be delivered to the Project Officer at the Executive Plaza South Building, 6120 Executive Blvd, Rockville, Maryland within thirty (30) minutes of a request. The offeror shall demonstrate it has the necessary telephone interviewing center and computer assisted interview capability. 3. Technical: The offeror must have secure data storage and transfer capability that can be compatible with personally identifiable data transfer to and from NCI secure networks. If any responsible source believes it can perform the requirements they may submit their tailored capability statements via email (PDF format; 20 Page Limit, these pages exclude resumes and cite this notice number: HHS-NIH-NCI-SBSS-ETSB-11003-49) for consideration by NCI to Kate Muir, Contract Specialist, at the e-mail address provided by the response date. No collect calls or facsimile transmissions will be accepted. Respondents must include DUNS number, organization name, address, point of contact, and size and type of business (e.g., 8(a), HUBZONE, etc) pursuant to the applicable NAICS code. Disclaimer and Important Notes: This notice does not obligate the Government to award a contract or otherwise pay for the information provided in response. The Government reserves the right to use information provided by respondents for any purpose deemed necessary and legally appropriate. Any organization responding to this notice should ensure that its response is complete and sufficiently detailed to allow the Government to determine the organization's qualifications to perform the work. Respondents are advised that the Government is under no obligation to acknowledge receipt of the information received or provide feedback to respondents with respect to any information submitted. After a review of the responses received, a pre-solicitation synopsis and solicitation may be published in Federal Business Opportunities. However, responses to this notice will not be considered adequate responses to a solicitation(s). Confidentiality: No proprietary, classified, confidential, or sensitive information should be included in your response. The Government reserves the right to use any non-proprietary technical information in any resultant solicitation.
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