SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- Pain Registry
- Notice Date
- 9/10/2013
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 541511
— Custom Computer Programming 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
- HHS-NIH-NIDA-PS20133103329
- Archive Date
- 10/2/2013
- Point of Contact
- Robert M. Christopher, Phone: 3014023812
- E-Mail Address
-
robert.christopher@nih.gov
(robert.christopher@nih.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- THIS IS A PRE-SOLICITATION NON-COMPETITIVE (NOTICE OF INTENT) SYNOPSIS TO AWARD A CONTRACT OR A PURCHASE ORDER WITHOUT PROVIDING FULL AN OPEN COMPETITION (INCLUDING BRAND NAME). The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), Station Support Contracts and Simplified Acquisitions Branch (SS/SA) on behalf of the National Institutes on Drug Abuse intend to negotiate and award a fixed price purchase order to Stanford University, 340 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305 without providing for full and open competition (Including brand-name). The intended procurement is classified under NAICS code 541511 with a size standard of $25M dollars. The resultant contract will include all applicable provisions and clauses in effect through the Federal Acquisition Circular (FAC) 05-69, August 1, 2013. This acquisition is conducted under the procedures as prescribe in FAR subpart 13-Simplified Acquisition Procedures at an amount not exceeding the simplified acquisition threshold. This acquisition is conducted under the authority of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 13-Simplified Acquisition Procedures, Subpart 13.106-1 (b) (1), Soliciting from a single source and is not expected to exceed the simplified acquisition threshold. Contract awarded using FAR Part 13 -Simplified Acquisition Procedures are exempt from the requirements of FAR Part 6 - Competition Requirements. Description of Requirement: Stanford University will develop, test and implement an open source, open standard and free National Pain Registry. This registry will be used to collect outcomes data that will be used for outcomes research, comparative effectiveness research, and point of care decision making on large numbers of patients suffering from chronic pain. Background: Over 100 million people in the U.S. still suffer from unwanted pain, (Institute of Medicine Report) at a cost of hundreds of billions of dollars each year in indirect costs and direct medical expenses. As a result of this, there has been a great increase in the number of treatments available for chronic pain management. Yet in many cases it is not know which treatments are most effective or safest. This information could be obtained through comparative effectiveness studies which could be developed with a Pain Registry. These registries exist now but they are commercial products with expensive fees putting them out of the range of most potential users. It is proposed to continue to develop, test and implement an open source, open standard and free National Pain Registry. The NIH Pain Consortium has contracted with Stanford University, to continue the work on a registry initiated by Stanford University and to continue development of the Registry, and to engage early adopter sites to use the registry. Specifically, this registry will be used to collect outcomes data that will be used for outcomes research, comparative effectiveness research, and point of care decision making on large numbers of patients suffering from chronic pain. This contract will leverage the existing work performed by the NIH initiative: Patient Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS), to utilize item response theory (IRT) and computer adaptive testing (CAT) to provide a state of the art registry framework. The determination by the Government to award a contract without providing for full and open competition is based upon market research conducted as prescribed in FAR Part 10-Market Research. This synopsis is not a request for competitive proposals. However, interested parties may identify their interest and capabilities in response to this notice. Responses to this notice shall contain sufficient information to establish the interested parties' bona-fide capabilities for fulfilling the requirement and include: unit price, lit price, shipping and handling costs, the delivery period after contract award, the prompt payment discount terms, the F.O.B. Point (Destination or Origin), the Dun & Bradstreet Number (DUNS) the Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN), and the certification of business size. 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 the proposed contract based upon responses to this notice is solely with the discretion of the Government. The information received will normally be considered 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 17, 2013 3:00pm EST and must reference number HHS-HHS-NIH-NIDA-PS 20133103329. Responses may be submitted electronically to Robert Christopher, robert.christopher@nih.gov or by U.S. mail to the National Institutes on Drug Abuse, Station Support Contracts and Simplified Acquisitions Branch (SS/SA), 31 Center Drive, Bldg. 31, Room 1B59, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-2080 Attn: Robert Christopher, Contract Specialist. Fax responses will not be accepted.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: Bethesda, Maryland, 20892, United States
- Zip Code: 20892
- Zip Code: 20892
- Record
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