SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- Payment of Patent Maintenance and Annuity Fees
- Notice Date
- 11/18/2011
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 541990
— All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, Office of Administration, 6011 Executive Blvd, 5th Floor, Rockville, Maryland, 20852-3804, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20852-3804
- Solicitation Number
- NIHOD2011289
- Archive Date
- 6/30/2012
- Point of Contact
- Sheryn N. Etti, Phone: 3015943560
- E-Mail Address
-
ettis@mail.nih.gov
(ettis@mail.nih.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The Office of Technology Transfer (OTT) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) intends to solicit, negotiate, and award a contract on a competitive basis for the purpose of providing payment of patent maintenance and annuity fees for the patent protection of inventions of the NIH and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) employees in the United States and foreign countries. The OTT, NIH intends to award a firm fixed-price/indefinite-delivery contract with a one-year base period plus four (4) one-year option periods. Option years will be exercised at the sole discretion of the Government. The Contractor shall: 1. Maintain records of all patents which have been filed with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and foreign countries by the Office of Technology Transfer (OTT), NIH. 2. Provide the OTT Contracting Officer's Technical Representative (COTR) with reports listing patents which require maintenance or annuity fees to be paid with the estimate of cost in U.S. dollars for each patent. Separate reports shall be provided on the patents filed in the United States and foreign countries. Each report shall be organized and subtotaled by government organizational component and provide a grand total of fees to be paid. 3. Pay annuities by the due date as designated from the reports submitted to and agreed to by the OTT COTR. 4. Examine the impact of adjustments or revisions in the patent annuity or maintenance fees of the United States and foreign countries with whom the NIH has activity and advise the OTT COTR as to the action that needs to be taken to meet those changes. 5. Treat all information as strictly confidential. 6. Maintain all such information and the media on which it is stored with the full understanding that they are the exclusive property of the Government. At the completion of the contract, this information and media shall be delivered to the Government or the successor Contractor at the direction of the OTT COTR. THIS IS A SYNOPSIS, NOT A REQUEST FOR A PROPOSAL (RFP). A RFP WILL BE AVAILABLE ON OR ABOUT December 6, 2011, ON THE FEDBIZOPPS (FBO) WEBSITE AT HTTP://WWW.FBO.GOV. Prospective offerors are responsible for downloading the solicitation and amendments. It is the offeror's responsibility to monitor the FBO website for the release of the solicitation and amendments. Hard copies will be provided to individuals eligible under the American with Disability Act and Rehabilitation Act upon request. Note: This synopsis follows Sources Sought notices (Small and Large Business), HHS-NIH-OD-SBSS-11-008 and HHS-NIH-OD-SBSS-11-010, that were released on May 18 and June 7, 2011.
- Web Link
-
FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/HHS/NIH/OoA/NIHOD2011289/listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Address: 6011 Executive Blvd., Rockville, Maryland, 20852, United States
- Zip Code: 20852
- Zip Code: 20852
- Record
- SN02626173-W 20111120/111118234557-f691bd72811ed4946112eaefb6eff91e (fbodaily.com)
- Source
-
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