SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- Help Desk and Information Technology Support for the Insight Toolkit 2016 (ITK-v4) - Attachments
- Notice Date
- 6/13/2016
- Notice Type
- Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
- NAICS
- 511210
— Software Publishers
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Library of Medicine, 6707 Democracy Blvd., Suite 105, Bethesda, Maryland, 20894, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20894
- Solicitation Number
- NIHLM2016825
- Archive Date
- 7/12/2016
- Point of Contact
- Keturah D. Busey, Phone: 3014966546
- E-Mail Address
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buseyk@mail.nlm.nih.gov
(buseyk@mail.nlm.nih.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- T&Cs T&Cs GPAT Technical Evaluation Criteria Statement of Work This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in FAR 12.6 as supplemented with additional information contained in this notice. This procurement is being conducted under Simplified Acquisition Procedures in accordance with FAR Part 13 and FAR 16.504. This solicitation document and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through May 16, 2016 Federal Acquisition Regulation revision, which includes the consolidation of all Federal Acquisition Circulars through 2005-88. The NAICS code for this acquisition is 511210. This announcement constitutes the formal Request for Quote (RFQ) and NO additional written solicitation will be issued. It is the intent of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to procure contract software support services for the Insight Toolkit (ITK), the image processing tools initiative of the Visible Human Project. The goal is to support ITK to attempt to allow it to perform and evolve for the research community for up to another five years. It is anticipated that at least ONE labor-hour (1) Indefinite-Delivery, Indefinite-Quantity type award will be made from this solicitation and that the award will be made on or about August 9, 2016. It is anticipated that the award(s) from this solicitation will be for a one year period of performance with options for two (2) successive one-year periods. The period of performance begins on or about August 9, 2016. Submission of Technical Proposals. Technical Proposals should not exceed fifteen (15) pages. Beyond introductory material, software management experience and philosophy, and other ancilliary information, the offeror should map the substance of the proposal to the following sections, corresponding to the categories of the Technical Evaluation Plan/Criteria for this solicitation: I. Perspective and Understanding of the Technical requirements The proposal must demonstrate a thorough understanding of the requirements of the Statement of Work and describe an approach that will demonstrate the achievement of timely and acceptable performance. The proposal must present a comprehensive statement of the problem, scope, and purpose of the project to demonstrate an understanding of the requirements from a management and technical standpoint. Specifically the proposal must demonstrate how the offeror will meet the specific tasks in the statement of work including: 1. Maintain and monitor communications with the ITK user community. This includes the running of mailing lists/list-serves and responding user questions and complaints. It also includes conducting and moderating weekly teleconference meetings for ITK developers, keeping minutes and maintaining meeting agendas. 2. Identify and correct bugs and other software flaws in ITK. 3. Contribute documentation, tutorial materials, and courseware. Organize outreach activities such as one or two symposia, tutorials, or workshops in conjunction with related conferences per year. 4. Produce semi-annual software releases of ITK. 5. Perform all software and documentation development under the style guidelines and architectural rules of the Insight Toolkit. 6. Maintain the ITK software repository using a source code control system. The contractor will support ITK through Git until and unless the ITK developer community adopts a different system. 7. Support the quality of ITK software through the use of software code review tools. The contractor will promote software quality in ITK by supporting Gerrit until and unless the ITK developer community adopts a different system. II. Qualifications of key personnel NLM is placing considerable emphasis on ITK programming experience either from a systems development perspective or from the application developer point of view. This background experience with ITK is deemed essential to successfully be able to support ITK. Each proposal must demonstrate and document the relevant experience, education, and availability of developers to meet the needs of the project. Some of the traits NLM is seeking include: • Strong knowledge of C++ object-oriented programming. • Demonstrated experience (of at least a year) in supporting a Git and Gerrit software revision control and review system (verified through peer-reviewed publication or the existence of an established Github site). • In-depth knowledge of the ITK software internals (verified through a response to a written or oral inquiry or a track record of responses and answers on the existing ITK users and developers mailing lists). • Demonstrated understanding of collaborative multi-institution open-source software development principles (verified through documented participation of the offeror in the Insight Software Consortium or as part of some other open-source community project). • Scientific depth in image processing methods (demonstrated through peer-reviewed papers with research investigators named as authors). • Commitment to developing software under this contract under the style rules and architectural design of the Insight Toolkit. Offerors should map named personnel to technical tasks in section I, making initial staff assignments of software developers to specific programming objectives. III. Institutional Experience/Commitment NLM is seeking confirmation that the offeror is committed to building and releasing open-source software, especially in working with software under the ITK license or similar unrestricted copyrights. Support of this experience and commitment should be expressed through (a) documentation of previous releases of ITK software, (b) a letter of support from the offeror's Dean or Chief Operating Officer or similar official stating the offeror's commitment to releasing patent privileges and copyrights of work performed under this requirement to the public domain, and/or (c) the text of the copyright or license, documented or clearly cited for its source, used by the offeror in previous releases of open source software and/or public domain data. IV. Proposed relevant facilities The contractor should have a demonstrated ongoing active research interest and an in-house program in clinical or biomedical information processing or the use of medical computing in health services research. This requirement is necessary to ensure the contractor has the established background and knowledge required to make practical advances in these complex areas of research. NLM wishes to establish relationships with institutions or organizations that have independent/complementary research interests to ensure continued development towards the eventual goal of comprehensive algorithm coverage in ITK. The contractor should also have access to members of the principal user groups for which ITK is intended (i.e., computer software designers and toolbuilders for health sciences practitioners, educators, health services researchers, biomedical researchers) who can be used to test the effectiveness of the structures and models developed. The proposal must describe the availability and proposed utilization of appropriate facilities and equipment required to successfully perform work in the proposed application area. This includes access to source data and validation instrumentation. Additional Material Beyond the 15 pages of technical proposal, resumes of key investigators, reprints of relevant technical papers, and other supplemental materials can be provided outside of the page limit. Reviewers are instructed that the 15-page technical proposal is required reading, and supplemental materials are available as part of the support documentation but not required. The attached Contract Terms and Conditions shall be made a part of any contract awarded as a result of this RFQ. The attached Addendum to Terms and Conditions of Purchase Order shall be made a part of any purchase order awarded as a result of this RFQ. A final best-value analysis will be performed taking into consideration the results of the technical evaluation, price analysis, and adequate resources to respond to the Government's need. The Government reserves the right to make an award to the best value of the Government, technical merit, price, and other factors considered. The NLM reserves the right to make a single award, multiple awards, or no award at all as a result of this RFQ. In addition, the RFQ may be amended or cancelled as necessary to meet NLM's requirement. Vendor shall furnish services, qualified personnel, material, equipment and/or facilities as needed to perform the work as stated on Statement of Work (SOW). ****The Statement of Work and Evaluation Criteria of this requirement are included in the Attachments Section of this solicitation in a single file as Attachment 1. All proposals received via eCPS by June 27, 2016 at 12:00 PM Eastern Time will be considered by NLM. The National Library of Medicine (NLM) requires proposals to be submitted via eCPS.: Electronic copy via the NLM electronic Contract Proposal Submission (eCPS) website at https://ecps.niaid.nih.gov/NLM. All submissions must be submitted by 12:00 PM Eastern Time on June 27, 2016. Vendors must submit questions via email to buseyk@mail.nlm.nih.gov. The deadline for vendors to submit questions is Noon on June 17, 2016. For directions on using eCPS, go to https://ecps.niaid.nih.gov/NLM and click on "How to Submit." NOTE: To submit your electronic proposal using eCPS, all offerors must have a valid NIH External Directory Account, which provides authentication and serves as a vehicle for secure transmission of documents and communication with the NLM. The NIH External Directory Account registration process may take up to 24 hours to become active. Submission of proposals by facsimile or e-mail is not accepted. Firms interested in responding to this notice must be able to provide the professional services required by NLM. The offeror shall include all information necessary to document and/or support the qualification criteria in one clearly marked section of its proposal. All responses from responsible sources will be considered. Inquiries regarding this procurement may be made via email to Keturah Busey, Contract Specialist, buseyk@mail.nlm.nih.gov. Please include the solicitation number "NIHLM2016825" in the subject line. Solicitation Provisions Incorporated by Reference [FAR 52.252-1, February 1998] This solicitation incorporates one or more solicitation provisions by reference, with the same force and effect as if they were given in full text. Upon request, the Contract Officer will make their full text available. The offeror is cautioned that the listed provisions may include blocks that must be completed by the offeror and submitted with its proposal. In lieu of submitting the full text provisions, the offeror may identify the provision by paragraph identifier and provide the appropriate information with its proposal. Also, the full text of a solicitation provision may be accessed electronically at this address: http://www.acquisition.gov. Vendor shall comply with all applicable Federal, State and Local laws, executive orders, rules and regulations applicable to its performance under this order. Full text of clauses and provisions are available at Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR). The following clauses and provisions shall apply to this acquisition and may be obtained from the web site: FAR 52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors-Commercial Items (October 2015), FAR 52.212-2, Evaluation-Commercial Items (October 2014). Offerors are advised to provide with their offer a completed copy of the following provisions: FAR 52.212-3, Offeror Representations and Certifications- Commercial Items (April 2016) With DUNS Number Addendum [52.204-6 (July 2013)]. The following FAR clauses apply to this acquisition: FAR 52.214-4, Contract Terms and Conditions-Commercial Items (May 2015)-With Addenda [Stop Work Order, FAR 52.242-15 (August 1989); FAR 52.217-5, Evaluation of Options (July 1990); FAR 52.212-5, Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statutes or Executive Orders-Commercial Items (March 2016), as well as the following clauses cited therein: FAR 52.217-8 Option to Extend Services (Nov 1999); FAR 52.217-9 Option to Extend the Term of the Contract (Mar 2000); FAR 52.216-18 Ordering (October 2015); FAR 52.216-19 Order Limitations (October 1995); FAR 52.216-22 Indefinite Quantity; FAR 52.222-41, Availability of Funds (April 1984); FAR 52-232-7 Payments under Time-and Materials and Labor-Hour Contracts (Aug 2012); FAR 52.242-15, Stop Work Order (August 1989) with Alternate I (April 1984); and FAR 52.242-17, Government Delay of Work (April 1984).
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