SOLICITATION NOTICE
Q -- Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging Services
- Notice Date
- 1/9/2013
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 622110
— General Medical and Surgical Hospitals
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Rockledge Dr. Bethesda, MD, Office of Acquisitions, 6701 Rockledge Dr RKL2/6100 MSC 7902, Bethesda, Maryland, 20892-7902
- ZIP Code
- 20892-7902
- Solicitation Number
- NHLBI-CSB-(HL)-2013-010-DDC
- Archive Date
- 2/7/2013
- Point of Contact
- Deborah - Coulter, Phone: (301) 435-0368, Kristiane E Cooper, Phone: 301-435-6674
- E-Mail Address
-
dc143b@nih.gov, cooperke@nhlbi.nih.gov
(dc143b@nih.gov, cooperke@nhlbi.nih.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) is seeking a Contract to perform for a Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging Services. The purpose of this announcement is to provide a Presolicitation Notice for the release of Solicitation NHLBI-CSB-(HL)-2013-010-DDC. THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL. NHLBI has been developing Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) techniques and applying these methods to patients with acute presentations of ischemic heart disease. Many technical developments have been achieved in making cardiovascular MRI more feasible, specifically advances in how to acquire cine MRI, infarct images, T2 weighted images, and perfusion images have all been achieved over the past 8 years. In addition, substantial advances have been made in developing methods for quantifying myocardial perfusion at rest or during stress. Many of these advances have been made possible through image acceleration techniques related to parallel imaging methods. Three major breakthroughs consist of the following: 1) Fat water separated imaging: Developed imaging method for generating separate images of water and fat which is used for (a) imaging fibro‐fatty infiltration, (b) improved tissue characterization and mass characterization, (c) reduced artifacts related to fat, (d) improved imaging of the pericardium and other thin walled structures in close proximity to fat. 2) Viability: Developed an improved free breathing motion corrected real‐time late gadolinium enhancement protocol that may be used in patients with difficulty breath‐holding and/or with arrhythmias. 3) Extra‐cellular volume (ECV) fraction and T1‐mapping: Developed parametric mapping of T1 and ECV that is useful in tissue characterization, and for the detection diffuse processes such as edema and fibrosis that are challenging to detect and characterize with conventional late gadolinium enhancement. NHLBI is interested in focusing primarily in two areas: 1) advanced characterization of myocardial tissue and the relationship between these characteristics and disease processes; and 2) of exploring the role of quantitative MRI measures of myocardial perfusion at rest and during stress. The contract will accomplish the following specific aims: 1. To improve the ability of MRI to differentiate acute and chronic myocardial infarction. 2. To develop more robust MRI methods to determine the ischemic myocardium at risk associated with acute myocardial infarction. 3. To characterize fat and water in myocardium and other tissue, particularly in specific cardiomyopathies. 4. To use T1 mapping to characterize the extracellular volume fraction and diffuse myocardial fibrosis in various cardiomyopathies. 5. To use MRI to predict which patients will respond better to specific interventions (e.g. valve replacement, transmyocardial laser therapy). A Summary of Contract Requirements as follows: 1) Provide a dedicated cardiovascular MRI facility 2) The MRI facility needs to be within a facility with a cardiac catheterization laboratory and an echocardiography facility appropriate for acutely ill cardiovascular patients and patients undergoing cardiothoracic surgery procedures. 3) Provide the facilities necessary to maintain the NHLBI cardiovascular MRI scanner. 4) Develop mechanisms to maintain access to greater than150 hospitalized patients per year and greater than150 patients undergoing cardiac catheterization within the constraints of applicable HIPPA/Privacy Act standards. 5) Provide MRI technologist support. Provide staffing appropriate to maintain the cardiac catheterization laboratory and echocardiography facility. 6) Provide nursing coverage adequate for monitoring acutely ill patients with cardiovascular disease coming from the emergency department or the Cardiac Care Unit. At least one of these nurses must be qualified at the level of a nurse research coordinator. 7) Provide Physician (Cardiology or Radiology Fellow). The physician shall be board certified or board eligible. 8) Provide support for medical records, archiving of medical images, and scheduling. 9) Provide supplies necessary for running a cardiovascular MRI facility (including but not limited to ECG gating supplies, MRI compatible intravenous injectors and supplies), a patient examination room, a cardiac catheterization laboratory (including but not limited to a bi-plane fluoroscopy unit, catheters, hemodynamic monitoring, intravenous injectors and supplies, quantitative coronary artery capability), and an echocardiography facility (including but not limited to three echocardiography machines, one of which allows transesophageal echo, echo probes, echo compatible intravenous contrast agents), intravenous tubing and associated supplies, scan room supplies, cleaning and miscellaneous supplies, laboratory and pathology services (including autopsies) and supplementary medical testing when indicated (such as x-rays to exclude MRI incompatible devices). 10) Provide translation services for those patients who require the service (both telephonic, as well as face-to-face interpretation) 11) Monthly meetings shall occur between contractor Staff and the NIH staff to assure contract compliance and protocol development. This is not a request for proposal (RFP) and the Government is not committed to award a contract pursuant to this announcement. This advertisement does not commit the Government to award a contract. The RFP will be available on FedBizOpps Web page at http://www.fedbizopps.gov. Prospective offerors are responsible for downloading the RFP and all attachments. The Offeror is responsible for monitoring the FedBizOpps Web page for the release of the solicitation and any amendments. The RFP will be available from the FedBizOpps on or about 15 calendar days from the date of this notice. All responsible sources may submit a proposal which shall be considered by the NHLBI. No paper copies will be available. Offerors are responsible for downloading their own copy of the solicitation and for routinely checking the FBO website for any possible solicitation amendments that may be issued by the government. Original Point of Contact Deborah Coulter, Contracting Officer, CSB Contracts Branch, Phone (301) 435-0368, Email: coulterd@nhlbi.nih.gov. No fax copies are accepted. COAC Service Branch, Office of Acquisitions, DERA National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, (NHLBI) 6701 Rockledge Drive, Suite 6042, Bethesda, MD, 20892-7902,
- Web Link
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FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/HHS/NIH/NHLBI/NHLBI-CSB-(HL)-2013-010-DDC/listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Address: NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, 20892, United States
- Zip Code: 20892
- Zip Code: 20892
- Record
- SN02962313-W 20130111/130109234509-979c22531ad0af8c7451150b4aeb5744 (fbodaily.com)
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