SOLICITATION NOTICE
D -- Support for Continued Pain Registry Development
- Notice Date
- 12/12/2013
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 541990
— All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical 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-SSSA-PSOL-14-0018
- Archive Date
- 1/5/2014
- Point of Contact
- Lauren M. Phelps, Phone: 3015942490
- E-Mail Address
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lauren.phelps@nih.gov
(lauren.phelps@nih.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- INTRODUCTION This is a pre-solicitation non-competitive (notice of intent) synopsis to award a contract without providing for full or open competition (including brand-name). THIS IS A NOTICE OF INTENT, NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL. A SOLICITATION WILL NOT BE ISSUED AND PROPOSALS WILL NOT BE REQUESTED. The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), Consolidated Station Support and Simplified Acquisitions (CSS/SA) Branch intends to negotiate and award a contract to Stanford University for support of the NIDA Division of Epidemiology, Services, and Prevention Research's National Pain and Chronic Disease Registry without providing for full and open competition (including brand-name). NORTH AMERICAN INDUSTRY CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM (NAICS) CODE The intended procurement is classified under NAICS code 541990 with a Size Standard of $14 Million. REGULATORY AUTHORITY The resultant contract will include all applicable provisions and clauses in effect through the Federal Acquisition Circular (FAC) 05-71 dated November 25, 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 ($150,000). STATUTORY AUTHORITY 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). DESCRIPTION OF REQUIREMENT Background According to the Institute of Medicine Report, over 100 million people in the U.S. still suffer from unwanted pain 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 known which treatments are most effective or safest. This information could be obtained through comparative effectiveness studies which could be developed with a Pain Registry. Pain Registries currently exist, but they are commercial products with expensive fees placing them out of the reach of many potential users. The National Institutes of Health is interested in implementing a free open source and open standard National Pain Registry. This work was begun via a contract with Stanford University and sources are now sought to support continued development of National Pain Registry requirements. Purpose and Objectives The purpose of this potential requirement is acquisition of support to continue development of an open source, open framework, and freely available National Pain Registry. This work will promote widespread collection of patient outcomes data for point of care decision making and longitudinal assessments of treatment efficacy. Period of Performance The anticipated period of performance is 1/1/2013 through 6/30/2014. A firm fixed price contract is contemplated. Project Description To Contractor must be able to perform the following tasks: 1. Provide pain medicine experts and computer experts to further refine the currently developed functional Pain Registry prototype using NIDA PROMIS CAT modules. 2. Beta-test the prototype Pain Registry. 3. Contact other pain medicine practices for data contributions. 4. Analyze data to provide assessment on longitudinal treatment effectiveness outcomes. 5. Scale Pain Registry for installation, configuration, integration, operation, and maintenance at multiple sites. CONTRACTING WITHOUT PROVIDING FOR FULL OR OPEN COMPETITION (INCLUDING BRAND-NAME) DETERMINATION The determination by the Government to award a contract without providing for full and open competition is based upon the market research conducted. Specifically, this is a follow-on requirement and the intended award will serve to continue current Pain Registry development support. The Pain Registry development has already begun and to start over with a new contractor would unnecessarily duplicate effort and expense. There are no other vendors in the current marketplace who can provide both the information technology and medical expertise to continue development of the required registry. The intended source is: Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305 CLOSING STATEMENT 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 and include: unit price, list 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 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 December 21, 2013 at 6:00 PM EST and must reference number HHS-NIH-NIDA-SSSA-PSOL-14-0018. Responses may be submitted electronically to lauren.phelps@nih.gov or by U.S. mail to the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), Consolidated Station Support and Simplified Acquisitions Branch (CSS/SA) 31 Center Drive, Room 1B59, Bethesda, MD 20892 Attention: Lauren Phelps. Fax responses will not be accepted.
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