SOURCES SOUGHT
R -- NIH Consulting Entrepreneur Services
- Notice Date
- 11/22/2016
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541690
— Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Rockledge Dr. Bethesda, MD, Office of Acquisitions, 6701 Rockledge Dr RKL2/6100 MSC 7902, Bethesda, Maryland, 20892-7902
- ZIP Code
- 20892-7902
- Solicitation Number
- HHSN-NIH-NHLBI-SBSS-2017-036
- Archive Date
- 12/17/2016
- Point of Contact
- Jonathan M. Lear,
- E-Mail Address
-
john.lear@nih.gov
(john.lear@nih.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Title: NIH Consulting Entrepreneur Services This is a Small Business Sources Sought notice. This is not a solicitation for proposals, proposal abstracts, or quotations. The purpose of this notice is to obtain information regarding: (1) the availability and capability of qualified small business sources; (2) whether they are small businesses; HUBZone small businesses; service-disabled, veteran-owned small businesses; 8(a) small businesses; veteran-owned small businesses; woman-owned small businesses; or small disadvantaged businesses; and (3) their size classification relative to the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for the proposed acquisition. Your responses to the information requested will assist the Government in determining the appropriate acquisition method, including whether a set-aside is possible. An organization that is not considered a small business under the applicable NAICS code should not submit a response to this notice. The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) does not intend to award a contract on the basis of responses nor otherwise pay for the preparation of any information submitted. As a result of this sources sought notice, the NHLBI may issue a Request for Quote (RFQ). There is no solicitation available at this time. However, should such a requirement materialize, no basis for claims against NHLBI shall arise as a result of a response to this sources sought notice or the NHLBI's use of such information as either part of our evaluation process or in developing specifications for any subsequent requirement. The NHLBI is seeking capability statements from all eligible small business concerns under the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code 541690 with a size standard $15.0M. Based on the responses received from this sources sought announcement, the proposed acquisition may be solicited as a total small business set-aside. All eligible small business concerns responding to this sources sought announcement must have the capabilities to provide the services as stated below. Purpose and Objectives The NHLBI is seeking services from a contractor with experienced innovation and commercialization professionals who have worked extensively with the private sector. The contractor shall have specialized expertise in the commercialization of biomedical innovation, increasing access to early-stage funding, and moving inventions and ideas from lab to market. The contractor's expertise should focus on related industries that drive the research innovation economy, including biotechnology, pharmaceutical, medical devices, and health informatics. The contractor shall have established relationships with a variety of corporate, private, and angel investor groups that are active in the biomedical economy. The contractor shall also demonstrate experience with federal technology transfer programs including the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) assistance programs. Previous experience supporting Entrepreneur-In-Residence (EIR) or similar programs at the NIH is highly desirable. Tasks to be Performed Contractor Responsibilities: The contractor shall recruit and retain the services of up to six personnel as required by the government to: 1) act as full-time Consulting Entrepreneur(s) (aka EIRs) in each participating NIH institute or center; 2) facilitate collaboration between the NIH and leaders from the biomedical industry; 3) provide the agency with the private sector perspective on imperatives for innovation and commercialization in research and development; and 4) educate NIH scientists, NIH funded academic and small business innovators on commercialization best practices. In order to successfully work across the science-business-regulatory interface, the contractor shall recruit EIR candidates that have a combination of multidisciplinary biomedical research experience; extensive biomedical technology development and commercialization experience; knowledge of regulatory aspects; and business and product development expertise. The contractor shall also work collaboratively with participating institutes and centers to identify the additional skills and qualifications commensurate with the scientific and business needs of the specific institute or institutes they are recruited to serve. These qualifications will be conveyed to the contractor on a case-by- case basis. In addition to recruiting and retaining qualified candidates to serve at the discretion of the IC business owners, the contractor shall budget for and manage the travel and accommodations for each consultant to attend up to six national meetings per year. At the end of the base period of performance, and any option period thereafter, the contractor shall deliver a report, summarizing the program outcomes, providing best practices and lessons learned from individual projects, and providing recommendations on how best practices may be disseminated across the NIH. The contractor shall submit monthly invoices tracking hours, rates, and associated indirect costs for each consultant for both the billing period and the cumulative amount. Consultant Entrepreneur Responsibilities: The Consultant Entrepreneurs shall be engaged in business planning and outreach coordination for a full range of cross-cutting small business technology development projects and activities in participating ICs, including providing strategic guidance to start-up companies, evaluating opportunities for new ventures, and leveraging NIH resources to provide information, intelligence, and insights that drive critical business decisions for research innovations. The consultants shall be involved in developing effective scientific collaborations between federal agencies, industry including small businesses, and the private sector to: -Facilitate access to NIH's research infrastructure and technology resources; -Identify opportunities for collaboration with both NIH intramural and extramural scientists; -Provide strategic advice to start-up companies, by evaluating opportunities for new ventures, and providing information, intelligence, and insights that drive critical business decisions for research innovations; -Interface with private industry on the basis of specific technology areas to build partnerships for NIH funded advanced technology projects; -Plan trans-NIH advanced technology programs with the extramural scientific community and implement and manage these broad-cross cutting strategic initiatives; and, -Foster effective collaborations with the NIH and private, non-profit, and other government entities. The Consultant Entrepreneurs may be required to submit periodic reports (at a frequency to be determined by the sponsoring IC's) on the status of projects under their stewardship. Each consultant retained under this contract may be subject to an initial evaluation period of six months, which may then be extended at the discretion of the government for part or all of the full performance period. Period of Performance The period of performance for this contract is from February, 2017 and continuing for eighteen (18) months thereafter, with one additional option period of eighteen (18) months. The recruitment of Consultant Entrepreneurs by the contractor may be staggered across the contract according to the business needs of the participating institutes. Place of Performance The work shall be performed at the government's site(s). The NHLBI and/or other NIH Institutes and Centers (IC's) may, according to the government's need, retain the services of the contractor to provide one or more consultant personnel within their respective offices. Capability Statement / Information Sought Interested parties are expected to review this notice to familiarize itself with the requirements of this project. The following information shall be included in the capability statement: -A general overview of the respondents' opinions about the difficulty and/or feasibility of the potential requirement, and any information regarding innovative ideas or concepts. -Information in sufficient details of the respondents' (a) staff expertise, including their availability, experience, and formal and other training; (b) current in-house capability and capacity to perform the work; (c) prior completed projects of similar nature; (d) corporate experience and management capability; and (e) examples of prior completed Government contracts, references, and other related information. -The respondents' DUNS number, organization name, address, point of contact, and size and type of business (e.g., 8(a), HUBZone, etc) pursuant to the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code: 541690 - Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services, with a small business size standard of $15.0M. -Any other information that may be helpful in developing or finalizing the requirements of the potential acquisition. Capability statements must demonstrate experience with similar projects and will be evaluated by the following criteria: -Understanding the requirement and adequacy of the proposed approach (i.e. understanding of the goals and objectives with respect to the Consultant Entrepreneur responsibilities outlined above); -Qualifications and experience of the proposed personnel (i.e. demonstrated experience of proposed staff and ability to recruit consultants with the scientific knowledge and business expertise that are required to provide consultant entrepreneur services); and, -Corporate experience and resources (i.e. demonstrated successful past performance in planning and conducting entrepreneurial consulting programs). Closing Statement Interested qualified small business organizations should submit a tailored capability statement for this requirement, not to exceed ten (10) single-sided pages (including all attachments, resumes, charts, etc.) presented in single-space and using a 12-point font size minimum, that clearly details the ability to perform the aspects of the notice described above. All proprietary information should be marked as such. Statements should also include an indication of current certified small business status; this indication should be clearly marked on the first page of your capability statement (preferably placed under the eligible small business concern's name and address). Responses will be reviewed only by NIH personnel and will be held in a confidential manner. All capability statements sent in response to this sources sought notice must be submitted electronically (via email) to Jonathan Lear, Contracting Officer, at john.lear@nih.gov in either MS Word or Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF), by December 2, 2016 at 12:00PM EST and must reference synopsis number HHSN-NIH-NHLBI-SBSS-2017-036. All responses must be received by the specified due date and time in order to be considered. Disclaimer and Important Notes This notice does not obligate the Government to award a contract or otherwise pay for the information provided in response. The Government reserves the right to use information provided by respondents for any purpose deemed necessary and legally appropriate. Any organization responding to this notice should ensure that its response is complete and sufficiently detailed to allow the Government to determine the organization's qualifications to perform the work. Respondents are advised that the Government is under no obligation to acknowledge receipt of the information received or provide feedback to respondents with respect to any information submitted. After a review of the responses received, a pre-solicitation synopsis and solicitation may be published in Federal Business Opportunities. However, responses to this notice will not be considered adequate responses to a solicitation. Confidentiality No proprietary, classified, confidential, or sensitive information should be included in your response. The Government reserves the right to use any non-proprietary technical information in any resultant solicitation(s).
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- Place of Performance
- Address: National Institutes of Health / NHLBI, Bethesda, Maryland, 20892, United States
- Zip Code: 20892
- Zip Code: 20892
- Record
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