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FBO DAILY - FEDBIZOPPS ISSUE OF SEPTEMBER 06, 2013 FBO #4304
SOLICITATION NOTICE

B -- NIH Blueprint Neuroscience Information Framework

Notice Date

9/4/2013
 

Notice Type

Presolicitation
 

NAICS

541720 — Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities
 

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

NIDA-2013-SS-SA-001
 

Archive Date

9/28/2013
 

Point of Contact

Lauren Phelps, Phone: 301-594-2490
 

E-Mail Address

lauren.phelps@nih.gov
(lauren.phelps@nih.gov)
 

Small Business Set-Aside

N/A
 

Description

THIS IS A PRE-SOLICITATION NON-COMPETITIVE (NOTICE OF INTENT) SYNOPSIS TO AWARD A CONTRACT WITHOUT PROVIDING FOR FULL AND OPEN COMPETITION. The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), Office of Acquisitions (OA), Station Support/Simplified Acquisitions Branch (SS/SA) intends to negotiate and award a contract without providing for full and open competition to the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California, 92093-5004. The intended procurement is classified under NAICS Code 541720 with a size standard of $19 million. The resultant contract will include all applicable provisions and clauses in effect through the Federal Acquisition Circular (FAC) 2005-69 effective September 3, 2013. This acquisition is conducted under the procedures as prescribed in FAR subpart 12 - Acquisition of Commercial Items and FAR subpart 15 - Contracting by Negotiation at an amount exceeding the simplified acquisition threshold. This acquisition is conducted under the authority of 41 U.S.C. 253(c) under provisions of the statutory authority of FAR Subpart 6.302-1 - Only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements 41 U.S.C. 253(c)(1). In 2004, the 16 Institutes, Centers and Offices that support neuroscience research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) established a cooperative effort known as the NIH Blueprint for Neuroscience Research. By pooling resources and expertise, the Blueprint supports the development of new tools, training opportunities, and other resources to assist neuroscientists in both basic and clinical research. To enhance these cooperative efforts, an early blueprint initiative called for development and deployment of an inventory of information and other resources within a framework that enables neuroscientists to identify resources relevant to their research needs. The framework was not intended to be a resources warehouse or repository itself, but a means for disclosing and locating resources and their associated data via the web. This resulted in the initiative called the Neuroscience Information Framework (NIF). This acquisition is for the continued operation and maintenance of the NIF. In 2008, the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) was awarded the contract to develop, maintain and enhance the NIF requirement. The development and enhancement of the Framework has enabled three levels of functionalities and components in resource registration and discovery; Search of the NIF inventory using high level vocabulary descriptors in a registration process that uses either a manual HTML form or direct posting via XML transfer. Automated or semi-automated discovery, updates, and indexing of the resource registry, Deep-querying of content across multiple databases through a single interface, and involves a registration process which maps data fields and content to the NIF vocabularies using both semi-automatic processes and human expertise and also creates a wrapper to allow remote NIF mediator query. The purpose of this requirement is for UCSD to host, operate, maintain, support, and enhance the functionalities and components of the NIH Blueprint Neuroscience Information Framework. Specifically, the contractor shall provide the IT infrastructure necessary to host, enhance, operate, and maintain production version of the NIF system. The contractor shall provide services to access and utilize NIF Data, resources and tools to NIF users. The Contractor shall maintain and further populate the NIF document archive. The contractor shall be responsible for maintaining, modifying, updating, extending, and enriching the NIF Vocabularies, and engaging in community efforts to assure their timely public availability, usefulness, adoption, and compatibility with other efforts as well as Framework needs. The contractor shall provide Informatics and ontological support services to resource providers needing assistance in resource registration. It is estimated that the period of performance for this acquisition will be 9/30/13 through 9/29/14. The determination by the Government to award a contract without providing for full and open competition is based upon the market research conducted as prescribed in FAR Part 10 - Market Research. Specifically, the review and evaluation of the responses to the sources sought notice published in the FedBizOpps. No contractor other than the incumbent can satisfy this requirement. UCSD has established a cadre of investigators that are engaged in multidisciplinary and multi-scale studies. This experience is necessary for integrating multiple data types to understand the functional relationship of central nervous system processes. UCSD led the focused integration of the semantic modules and vocabularies of NIF, encoding them in Web Ontology Language. In addition, they have worked with NIH National Roadmap Center for Biomedical Ontologies to assure consistency of the NIF standard vocabularies with the OBO Foundry principals. Lastly, UCSD has created a unique resource for a registry of databases for neuroscience that permit data integration. This synopsis is not a request for competitive proposals. However, interested parties may identify their interest and capability to respond to this notice. Responses to this notice shall contain sufficient information to establish the interested parties' bona-fide capabilities for fulfilling the requirement. All offerors must have an active registration in the System for Award Management (SAM) www.sam.gov." 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. The information received will normally be considered solely for the purposes of determining whether to proceed on a non-competitive basis or to conduct a competitive procurement. All responses must be received by September 13, 2013 at 12:00pm EST and must reference NIDA-2013-SS-SA-001. Responses may be submitted electronically to Lauren Phelps, lauren.phelps@nih.gov. Fax responses will not be accepted. "All responsible sources may submit a capability statement, proposal, or quotation, which shall be considered by the agency."
 

Web Link

FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/HHS/NIH/NIDA-2/NIDA-2013-SS-SA-001/listing.html)
 

Place of Performance

Address: La Jolla, California, 92093, United States

Zip Code: 92093
 

Record

SN03173336-W 20130906/130904235420-b2aa19e963bb6d830f740fa7b6e42de8 (fbodaily.com)
 

Source

FedBizOpps Link to This Notice
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