SPECIAL NOTICE
B -- Sole Source Notice - Text Retrieval Conference (TREC) - Clinical Decision Support
- Notice Date
- 7/31/2015
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 541990
— All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Acquisition Management Division, 100 Bureau Drive, Building 301, Room B130, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 20899-1410, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20899-1410
- Solicitation Number
- NB774020-15-03266
- Point of Contact
- Chantel Adams, Phone: 3019756338, Keith Bubar, Phone: 3019758329
- E-Mail Address
-
chantel.adams@nist.gov, keith.bubar@nist.gov
(chantel.adams@nist.gov, keith.bubar@nist.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- SYNOPSIS: The National Institutes of Standards and Technology (NIST) hereby provides notice of its intent to negotiate on a sole source basis with Oregon Health & Science University, 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Road, Portland, Oregon 97201-3011, pursuant to FAR 6.302-1. A Justification for Other than Full and Open Competition has been prepared. The period of performance for this effort is date of award through September 30, 2015. The Order will be in support of the Information Technology Laboratory's (ITL) ongoing Text Retrieval Conference (TREC) efforts to promote research in information retrieval (IR) by providing appropriate test collections. IR test collections consist of three parts: a set of documents, a set of information needs called "topics" that can be answered by some of the documents in the document set, and a set of relevance assessments that lists for each topic the set of documents that are relevant to that topic. To build a test collection, many different organizations run their own search engine on the document set and return the results to NIST. NIST pools all submitted results and selects a subset of the top-ranked 1,000, or more, documents for each question to be judged for relevance by a human (an "assessor"). To make a good test case, the questions must be appropriate for the kinds of documents being searched, which means the relevance judgments must be created by humans with expert knowledge of the domain covered by the documents. In support of the Health IT initiative, TREC 2015 contains a task to build a test collection for search engines for medical Information. The document set in this case is the biomedical literature as contained in the public-access portion of NIH's PubMed system. The questions, which are case studies ending in a request for either a diagnosis or test procedure, were created by NIH physicians to mimic realistic cases that clinicians would encounter in practice. Thus, the relevance judgments for this test collection must be performed by physicians because only people with sufficient medical training are able to judge the extent to which a document in the biomedical literature addresses the particular question posed in the case study. Without domain-expert judgments, the test collection will not be built. Obtaining relevance judgments for this task requires assessors in the intersection of two specialties: people with the analytical skills to be good general assessors (reading quickly, information organizational skills) and people with requisite medical knowledge. The Oregon Health and Sciences University (OHSU) has a Bio Informatics program that has physicians with the requisite medical expertise, retrieval evaluation and relevance assessment experience this effort requires. OHSU is the only known source with the ability to provide the requisite expertise for this requirement. Interested parties may identify their interest and capability to respond to the requirement. THIS NOTICE OF INTENT IS NOT A REQUEST FOR COMPETITIVE PROPOSALS. A determination not to compete this requirement, based upon responses to this notice, is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information received will normally be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. NIST will NOT be responsible for any costs incurred by interested parties in responding to this notice of intent. Only written responses will be considered. As a result of analyzing responses to this notice of intent, the Government shall determine whether a solicitation will be issued. Any prospective contractor must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) in order to be eligible for award. Information concerning SAM registered requirements may be viewed via the Internet at http://sam.gov. INSTRUCTIONS: All interested parties shall submit clear and convincing documentation demonstrating their capabilities to satisfy the requirements listed above to Chantel Adams at chantel.adams@nist.gov and Keith Bubar at keith.bubar@nist.gov no later than 12:00 p.m. Eastern Time on Wednesday, August 12, 2015. Fax inquiries will not be accepted. The capability documentation should include general information and technical background describing in detail the prospective contractor's capabilities and experience that will demonstrate the ability to support these requirements.
- Web Link
-
FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/DOC/NIST/AcAsD/NB774020-15-03266/listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Address: 100 Bureau Drive, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 20899, United States
- Zip Code: 20899
- Zip Code: 20899
- Record
- SN03818958-W 20150802/150731234742-cd11d470c4f75b41f535b0d17268a3e5 (fbodaily.com)
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