SOLICITATION NOTICE
B -- Assessing Psychopathology in Children with Early-Life Temperament Types
- Notice Date
- 5/9/2011
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 541690
— Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Station Support/Simplified Acquisitions, 31 Center Drive, Room 1B59, Bethesda, Maryland, 20892
- ZIP Code
- 20892
- Solicitation Number
- NOI-2088716
- Archive Date
- 6/8/2011
- Point of Contact
- Korriise L. LaRoche, Phone: 301-435-8782
- E-Mail Address
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larochek@mail.nih.gov
(larochek@mail.nih.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- This is a notice of intent, not a request for a proposal. A solicitation document will not be issued and proposals will not be requested. The National Institute on Drug Abuse, Office of Acquisitions-Neuroscience, Station Support/Simplified Acquisition (SS/SA) on behalf of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) intends to negotiate and award a purchase order on a sole source, noncompetitive basis to the University of Maryland - Child Development Laboratory/Department of Human Development, College Park, MD 20742 for assessing psychopathology in children with early-life temperament types. The Section on Development and Affective Neuroscience (SDAN) and the Child Development Laboratory (CDL) represent two laboratories that are currently collaborating on studies of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies in children. SDAN is centered within the Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program, within the NIMH-IRP while CDL is located within the Department of Human Development, University of Maryland, College Park. These studies are designed to examine brain structure and function within temperamentally fearful children and children that are associated with various person-specific factors, including aspects of cognitive development, chronological age, and psychopathology. The population of temperamentally fearful school-age children has been followed for several years by the CDL. The collaborative research with SDAN requires considerable data collection on the social, contextual, and cognitive status of the sample. In particular, data are needed to examine friendship and social status of the children, personality variables, and family relationships. Moreover, maintaining contact with the sample at CDL also requires considerable effort. This is necessary so that subjects can be readily available to participate in studies at NIH when MRI time is available. The CDL has considerable expertise in the collection of these types of data. They also have considerable expertise in facilitating cooperation in collaborative, MRI-based research, specifically through a series of studies performed with NIMH. In order for the research collaboration between CDL and SDAN to move forward it is vital that detailed questionnaire data be collected from the subjects and their families, prior to their visit to SDAN and the NIH. It is also vital that close contact be maintained with this sample. CDL personnel have over the years established rapport with the subjects and their families and thus are in a natural and unique position to easily collect such data and to maintain contact with the sample. The CDL has spent the past 20 years studying two populations of children who are extreme in their temperamental disposition. In each case, these two samples of children were identified in infancy and have been followed through to either adolescence (“cohort 1”) or school age (“cohort 2”). Very few such samples are available worldwide. No samples are available in close proximity to the Washington, DC metropolitan area. The CDL has been collaborating with NIMH to study children with extreme temperaments (NIMH-IRP Protocol 03-M-0186; The Psychobiology of Temperament). This collaboration has developed over the past 11 years. A prior contract supported collaborative work on “cohort 1”. The current contract is designed to support similar collaborative work on “cohort 2”. The current studies require acquiring novel clinical data on psychopathology, personality and social relationships from the sample as well as working with the sample so that they will be readily available to participate in fMRI research. It would take years to develop a new sample, and it is imperative that the current sample be tested while contact is maintained with them. NIMH has considerable contact with the sample and will over the coming period be in a position to complete unique neuroimaging studies with this sample. NIMH would not be able to contact or recruit this sample, nor acquire the necessary questionnaire data on personality and social relationships without the collaboration and work of the CDL. Therefore, it is imperative that NIMH continue its collaboration with the CDL. The CDL will acquire a wide range of clinical data from 45 temperamentally fearful children and 45 non-fearful children who have been part of the CDL longitudinal study and to facilitate entry of these individuals into fMRI studies conducted by SDAN at the NIMH. The Period of Performance is 12 months. The acquisition is being conducted under simplified acquisition procedures using FAR Part 13 and is exempt from the requirements of FAR Part 6, Competition Requirement. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals. Interested parties may identify their interest and capabilities in response to this synopsis by submitting a statement of capabilities on or before 2:00 PM E.T., May 24, 2011 to Korriise LaRoche, larochek@mail.nih.gov. All information furnished must be in writing and must contain sufficient detail to allow the NIDA/NIMH to determine if it can meet the above unique specifications described herein. The determination by the Government not to compete the proposed contract based upon responses to this notice is solely with the discretion of the Government. Information received will be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. In order to receive an award from the NIDA, the vendor must be registered in the Online Representations and Certifications Applications (ORCA) at http://orca.bpn.gov. In addition, the vendor must be registered in the Central Contractor Registration (CCR) at ww.ccr.gov. Please reference announcement number NOI-2088716 on all correspondence.
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