SOLICITATION NOTICE
A -- Systematic Review of Neonatal Medicine
- Notice Date
- 4/4/2016
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 541712
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Contracts Management Branch, 6100 Executive Blvd., Suite 7A07, MSC7510, Bethesda, Maryland, 20892-7510
- ZIP Code
- 20892-7510
- Solicitation Number
- NIH-NICHD-PPB-2016-17
- Point of Contact
- Gilberto A. Perez Rosa, Phone: 3014519698, Adelola St John, Phone: 3014356955
- E-Mail Address
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gilberto.perez-rosa@nih.gov, 202p@nih.gov
(gilberto.perez-rosa@nih.gov, 202p@nih.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Pregnancy and Perinatology Branch (PPB) seek interested and qualified potential sources for the NICHD Systematic Review of Neonatal Medicine. Individual researchers who conduct clinical trials to evaluate the benefits of new drugs, diagnostic tests, specific therapies, or surgical interventions, etc., publish their results in peer-reviewed journals (e.g., in the New England Journal of Medicine, or JAMA, etc.). When many research groups conduct research on specific interventions, their findings may or may not be the same as those of previously published research. This can lead to difficulties for choosing appropriate therapy for the practitioner. As an example: if 4 studies testing the effect of an antibiotic for sore throat conclude that the drug was not effective, 2 others concluding that was extremely effect, and 5 others studies find drug can actually worsened the disease, the clinicians cannot determine whether to use the drug or not. Thus, such contradictory outcomes need to be resolved to clarify the direction of the "collective evidence" for doctors to offer most appropriate therapy to their patients. The electronic manuscript with summary evidence is made available on the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) website to help pediatricians across United States to access it freely, guiding their practice. The purpose of posting the systematic reviews on the federal webpage will allow students, medical, surgical, and nursing practitioners across the United States to have a FREE access to the valuable reviews, which otherwise will need to be paid for. By supporting neonatal systematic reviews and making them available free of cost to the general public is a unique accomplishment for NICHD, since this is helping to bridge much needed gap for the medical community. This contract will be an option contract. In reference to clause Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 52.217-9 Option to Extend the Term of the Contract, this Contract will have a base year and four (4) option years. The Government may extend the term of this contract by written notice to the Contractor within 30 days. Proposals will be evaluated on technical approach, 35%, personnel 35%, resources and facilities 20% and, review results and methodology 10%. A significant portion of the technical approach includes the following: documented soundness and practicality of technical approach for carrying out each of the designated requirements specified in the Statement of Work, for performing literature search, extracting data, synthesizing the results from the literature, documentation of study methods, appropriate statistical analyses, and appropriate preparation of the report including interpretation based on the evidence summary. In addition, the offeror shall demonstrate prior experience with the operation of a registry, including: a. maintaining and updating the data base, i.e., electronic ascertainment of neonatal trials, a classification scheme for coding trials b. commissioning of meta-analyses of trials by expert reviewers c. providing overall editorial supervision of the reviews d. serving as the liaison between the co-editors and reviewers and participation as author in publications in peer-reviewed biomedical journals e. The offeror shall clearly articulate the roles and responsibilities of the core editorial team and the reviewers. The personnel component focuses on demonstrated experience in the area of systematic reviews and meta-analyses. The offeror will identify core individuals (key personnel) and their respective role(s) and how they interact with each other complementing to improving the final review report. The offeror will also demonstrate that all senior and key personnel have appropriate expertise relevant to their roles, which may include, but not limited to, statistics, meta-analyses, systematic reviews, scientific writing, and evidence-based medical practice. These individuals should possess the necessary expertise to promote the continued registry and coding of trials in neonatology, the updating of existing neonatal systematic reviews, the production of new meta-analyses, the expression of results in a clinically useful manner, and the wide dissemination of the results. Items to be evaluated during the review include: all of the above, plus demonstrated experience, qualifications and availability of the PI and the other senior and mid-level professional staff, to successfully handle their proposed scientific, technical, and managerial duties and responsibilities; demonstrated expertise in managing large databases of similar scope and complexity. For resources and facilities; the offeror shall demonstrate that they have adequate specific facilities and equipment for the anticipated scientific, communications, logistical, organizational, data management and data analysis tasks And, on the review results and methodology; offerors shall provide the details of the Newsletter (how often produced, how and to whom it is disseminated etc.) and plans for conducting educational courses/seminars/workshops in which the scientific knowledge about, and the methodology in conducting systematic review is disseminated to trainees, and interested academic faculty (graduate and postgraduate students; fellows in various branches of pediatrics, members of nursing profession, junior faculty, and other academic faculty interested in learning, applying, and performing systematic reviews on neonatal topics.) The RFP is anticipated to be posted on or about April 19, 2016 on the FedBizOpps (FBO) website: http://www.fedbizopps.gov. Information in the anticipated RFP supersedes any information in this pre-solicitation announcement. This acquisition has been designated as full and open competition under the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code 541712. Any questions concerning this announcement must be submitted in writing to Gilberto Perez Rosa at gilberto.perez-rosa@nih.gov, Contract Specialist or Adelola St John, Contracting Officer, at kelluml@mail.nih.gov. No collect calls will be accepted. This announcement does not commit the Government to award a contract. The reference number to be used for this announcement is: RFP NIH-NICHD-PPB-2016-17. All correspondence must cite the reference number as provided. The RFP will be made available electronically only via the FedBizOpps website (http://www.fedbizopps.gov). Offerors are responsible for routinely checking the FedBizOpps website for any possible solicitation amendments that may be issued. For the solicitation, the NICHD requires proposals to be submitted via e-mail.
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