SPECIAL NOTICE
R -- Notice of Intent - 2021 Text Retrieval Conference (TREC) Clinical Trials Task
- Notice Date
- 7/27/2021 8:31:11 PM
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 541990
— All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
- Contracting Office
- DEPT OF COMMERCE NIST GAITHERSBURG MD 20899 USA
- ZIP Code
- 20899
- Solicitation Number
- NIST-NOI-21-02454
- Response Due
- 8/6/2021 2:00:00 PM
- Archive Date
- 08/21/2021
- Point of Contact
- January Magyar, Phone: 3019755442
- E-Mail Address
-
january.magyar@nist.gov
(january.magyar@nist.gov)
- Description
- The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) intends to negotiate on a sole-source basis with Oregon Health and Sciences University (OHSU) of Portland, OR under the authority of FAR Subpart 13.106(b)(1) for Text Retrieval Conference (TREC) Clinical Trials Support Services. Background Information and Basis for Sole Source NIST�s Information Technology Laboratory�s (ITL) ongoing Text Retrieval Conference (TREC) efforts 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 Clinical Trials Track of the TREC was developed to support research on connecting patients to appropriate clinical trials. Track participants use their retrieval systems to find clinical trials from the provided collection that are appropriate for a given textual summary of a (fictional) patient�s electronic health record. Obtaining relevance judgments for this requirement 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. 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. In addition, OHSU has performed similar work under NIST�s TREC program in prior fiscal years. Awarding to an organization other than OHSU may result in significant delays as such an organization would experience a learning curve ultimately resulting in burdensome delays to the Government. General The North American Classification System (NAICS) code for this acquisition is 541990 � All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services. The small business size standard is $16.5M. No solicitation package will be issued. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive quotations; however, responses received by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on August 6, 2021 will be considered by the Government. A determination by the Government not to compete the proposed acquisition 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. Interested parties that believe they could satisfy the requirements listed above for NIST may clearly and unambiguously identify their capability to do so in writing on or before the response date for this notice. This notice of intent is not a solicitation. Any questions regarding this notice must be submitted in writing via email to January Magyar at january.magyar@nist.gov. All responses to this notice of intent must be submitted so that they are received at january.magyar@nist.gov no later than the aforementioned
- Web Link
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- Place of Performance
- Address: Gaithersburg, MD 20899, USA
- Zip Code: 20899
- Country: USA
- Zip Code: 20899
- Record
- SN06074385-F 20210729/210728203726 (samdaily.us)
- Source
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