SOURCES SOUGHT
B -- AMDTC-17-0011 TREC Clinical Decision Support
- Notice Date
- 3/23/2017
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- 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
- AMDTC-17-0011
- Point of Contact
- Chantel Adams, Phone: 301-975-6338
- E-Mail Address
-
chantel.adams@nist.gov
(chantel.adams@nist.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- This is a Sources Sought Notice ONLY. Requests for copies of a solicitation will not receive a response. This Notice is for planning purposes only and shall not be misunderstood as a Request for Proposal or a Request for Quotation or as an obligation on the part of The National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST) for conducting a follow-on acquisition. NIST does not intend to award a contract on the basis of this Notice, or otherwise pay for the information requested. No entitlement or payment of direct or indirect costs or charges by NIST will arise as a result of submission of responses to this Notice and NIST use of such information. NIST recognizes that proprietary data may be part of this effort. If so, respondents are responsible for identifying proprietary components, interfaces and equipment, and clearly mark restricted or proprietary data and present it as an addendum to the non-restricted / non-proprietary information. In the absence of such identification, NIST will assume to have unlimited rights to all technical data in the information paper. NO SOLICITATION DOCUMENTS EXIST AT THIS TIME. Section I - Sources Sought Information: 1.Synopsis: NIST is seeking information from commercial vendors that are capable of providing Contractor Support Services for NIST's 2015 Text Retrieval Conference (TREC) Clinical Decision Support Effort. 2.Background: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Information Technology Laboratory's (ITL) Information Access Division's Retrieval Group works with industry, academia and other government agencies to promote the use of more effective and efficient techniques for manipulating information not specifically structured for automatic use--especially the browsing, searching, and presentation of that information. Accurate evaluation of the capabilities of current information access systems is a prerequisite to improving the systems' capabilities. Human-created annotations are essential to the evaluation of information systems. Over the years, these evaluations have helped dramatically improve the overall state-of-the-art in information retrieval systems. The work of the Retrieval Group includes the Text Retrieval Conference (TREC). One of the main goals of TREC is 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. The goal of the TREC Clinical Decision Support Track is to support research on finding clinically relevant information within the medical literature. TREC participants use their retrieval systems to find articles from the biomedical literature that answer one of three clinically important questions (What is the diagnosis? What test is needed? What treatment should be started?) for each of a set of 30 case studies summarizing a (hypothetical) patient's condition. Making relevance decisions for the Clinical Decision Support Track requires medical expertise, so Contractor personnel must be retired and/or former physicians. One Contractor personnel, serving as Project Manager is further required to have background in Information Retrieval and experience building Information Retrieval Test Collections. 3.Statement of Requirements: The Contractor shall provide a relevance judgment on a 3-point scale for each document in a case study's document set for each of 30 case studies. The judgment for a (document, case study) pair shall indicate whether information in the document would contribute to a health care provider's understanding of the answer to the clinical question for the case study. Relevance judgments shall be made on a 3-level scale of "not relevant", "possibly relevant", and "relevant". The document set for a case study will contain an average of 1,200 documents. NIST will provide the document sets to be judged to the Contractor. Specific Tasks The contractor shall provide a relevance judgment for each document contained in each document set corresponding to a specific case study. There will be 30 case studies and an average of 1,200 documents per document set, for an approximate total of 36,000 documents. Judgments shall be made on a three-point scale: not relevant, possibly relevant, or relevant. A document shall be judged "relevant" or "possibly relevant" if the document would contribute to a health care provider's understanding of the answer to the clinical question for the case study. Relevance is specific to and shall be judged with respect to that document and that case study. The distinction between "relevant" and "possibly relevant" is expected to be case study specific as well, and the contractor shall decide how to reach that distinction in the context of each case study. NIST will provide the document sets to be judged. ========== NIST is seeking responses from all responsible sources, including large, foreign, and small businesses. DoC has not made a determination whether this will be a small business set-aside. The small business size standard for the applicable NAICS code of 541990 - All Other Professional, Scientific and Technical Services - is $15 million. Please include your company's size classification and socio-economic status in any response to this notice. After results of this market research are obtained and analyzed, NIST may conduct a competitive procurement and subsequently award a Purchase Order. If at least two qualified small businesses are identified during this market research stage, then it is anticipated that any competitive procurement that results from this notice will be conducted as a small business set-aside. Section II - Response Instructions: Companies that can provide such services are requested to email a written response (see Section II - Responses defined below) describing their abilities to chantel.adams@nist.gov no later than the response date for this sources sought notice. The report should include achievable specifications and any other information relevant to your product or capabilities. Also, the following information is requested to be provided as part of the response to this sources sought notice: 1.Name of the company that manufactures the system components for which specifications are provided. 2.Name of company(ies) that are authorized to sell the system components, their addresses, and a point of contact for the company (name, phone number, fax number and email address). 3.A description of prior related experience to a Federal, State or Local Government customer(s). 4.A typical pricing structure to include any licenses, modules, or other options required to provide the requirements and whether the pricing structure and information may be used as a quote. 5.Estimated timeframe for installation, training, and fully operation status, if applicable. 6.Indication of whether products/services for which specifications are provided are currently on one or more GSA Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) contracts and, if so, the GSA FSS contract number(s). 7.Any other relevant information that is not listed above which the Government should consider in developing its minimum specifications and finalizing its market research. Responses are limited to a total of twelve (12) pages. The responses must be in MS Word format. Pages shall be 8½-inch x 11-inch, using Times New Roman 11-Point Font. Each page shall have adequate margins on each side (at least one inch) of the page. Header/footer information (which does not include any information to be evaluated) may be included in the 1" margin space. Please send responses via email to chantel.adams@nist.gov.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: 100 Bureau Drive, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 20899, United States
- Zip Code: 20899
- Zip Code: 20899
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