SPECIAL NOTICE
99 -- Marine Resiliency Study II
- Notice Date
- 5/5/2011
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 541712
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)
- Contracting Office
- N62645 Naval Medical Logistics Command 693 Neiman Street Ft. Detrick, MD
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- N6264511WM002
- Archive Date
- 5/26/2011
- E-Mail Address
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NMLC Research
(NMLC-Research@med.navy.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The Naval Medical Logistics Command intends to award a sole source contract under the authority of 6.302-1 to the Veterans Medical Research Foundation of San Diego (VMRF), 3350 La Jolla Village Drive (151A), San Diego, CA 92161, for the performance of research and development (R&D), clinical studies in support of the Naval Medical Research Center. This requirement will evaluate the physical, family, social, cognitive and mental health status of ground combat Marines deploying to Iraq or Afghanistan. Marine Resiliency Study II (MRS-II) will provide for extended evaluation and additional follow up assessments of remaining active duty Marines in battalions previously assessed by Marine Resiliency Study I (MRS-I), a prospective, longitudinal assessment of 2,500 Marines pre- and post-deployment across psychosocial, physiological, and biological domains. MRS-II will assess Marines in those same battalions, or other battalions slated for deployment who have not previously enrolled in MRS-I, thus enabling use of novel pre- and post-deployment measures that will not interfere with the ongoing MRS project, but can be designed to coordinate with measures used in the United States Army ™s Study to Assess Risk and Resilience in Service members (STARRS). Additionally MRS-II will recruit Marines drawn from the original MRS cohort to study the feasibility of targeted prevention or intervention protocols, or the use of new technologies to identify biomarkers. A specific goal of these small studies would be to determine feasibility and to estimate effect sizes for more extensive studies in larger Department of Defense (DoD) groups, such as that from Army STARRS. The primary aim is to identify the individual, social, and deployment factors that predict post-deployment mental health response, particularly posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and secondly, by integrating and analyzing data across psychosocial, physiological and biological domains, to accomplish a multi-system understanding of the phenomenology of adaptation to stress. The estimated value of this contract is $6.898 Million. The period of performance for this contract is anticipated to be a base period of 12-months, followed by two 12-month option periods for a total of 36-months. MRS-II is the direct follow-on and expansion of a previous study performed, by the VA San Diego Healthcare System (VASDHS), Veterans Medical Research Foundation of San Diego (VMRF), and affiliate University of California, San Diego (UCSD), entitled MRS I. MRS-II includes a long-term follow-up to MRS-I that would add two additional assessments beyond the originally proposed 3-month and 6-month post-deployment assessments. In addition, a pre-post redeployment study in MRS cohorts designed to identify additional predictors of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) vulnerability will be performed using the members of the same battalion as previously enrolled Marines. Lastly, a series of demonstration projects would be designed so that subgroups drawn from the original cohort could test the feasibility of specific experimental designs such as targeted prevention or treatment protocols, or the use of new technology to identify biomarkers. Since MRS-I is already in progress at the core VASDHS facility, associated non-profit VMRF, and affiliate UCSD, the administrative structure, relationships, and Institutional Review Board (IRB) approvals are in place for implementation of the long-term follow-up component of MRS-II, and for the enrollment of new Marines for the pre-post redeployment study, it would be financially prudent and timely to use the current performer on the study, VASDHS non-profit associate, VMRF. Only VASDHS, which houses the MRS administrative core, along with associate non-profit VMRF and affiliate UCSD have the data from MRS-I and the knowledge and experience to perform MRS-II. In addition, specific psychophysiologic and biomarker methodology that is proprietary to MRS has been developed by VASDHS and affiliate UCSD researchers for MRS-I, and would be essential for the scientific validity of the longitudinal nature of the work proposed for MRS-II. Given that execution of MRS-II requires infrastructure, relationships, and data that are available only from MRS-I, the MRS team is a unique group that can fulfill the research required (prospective assessment of risk factors predictive of PTSD and other mental health disorders after combat in active duty Marines), most efficiently in terms of feasibility, cost, subject burden, data quality, experience, and extensive United States Marine Corps (USMC) working relationships. Due to the extensive assessment battery, custom equipment, and expertise needed to implement these data collections it would be virtually impossible for another group to adequately replicate the procedures used in a seamless enough way to ensure data integrity for the cross time-point and cross-cohort analyses proposed in this project. Based on these unique capabilities and the previous work done with the Veterans Medical Research Foundation of San Diego (VMRF), VMRF is the only institution capable of meeting the Government ™s requirements. This Notice of Intent is not a request for competitive proposals and no solicitation document exists for this requirement. However, parties interested in responding to this notice will need to submit technical data and other information sufficient to determine capability to perform the proposed contract effort. All capability statements received by 3:30PM Eastern Time on May 26, 2011, will be considered by the Government. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed contract based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information received will normally be considered solely for purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. Capability statements shall be submitted by email ONLY as a Microsoft Word or Adobe PDF attachment to NMLC-Research@med.navy.mil.
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