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D -- FLOW AND IMAGING CYTOMETRY COMPUTER PROGRAM SUPPORT SERVICES SOL 223-95-5564 DUE 090895 POC Contract Specialist, Christopher D. Wright, Contracting Officer, James Cooper, (301) 443-2597 The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Center for Biologics, Evaluation, and Research, is recompeting a requirement which is currently being performed by Systex, Inc. The work involves Flow and Imaging Cytometry Computer Program Support to be performed using work directives that normally will by identified by task area as determined by the hardware and/or software configuration for which the work is to be done in these four areas: (A) Personal computers such as the Macintosh, HP and IBM PC using IBMs PC/DOS or MS/DOS operating system and programming languages including BASIC, PASCAL, FORTRAN, AND C, (B) Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) Vax and microVax-series computers using DECs VMS operating system, and computer programming languages including Assembler, PASCAL, and FORTRAN, (C) DEC RISC-based workstations using DECs Ultrix Unix operating system, and computer programming languages including Assember, PASCAL, and FORTRAN, (D) Image analysis tasks will be centered around a kodax Professional DCS 460 digital camera and a Nikon Microphot-FX microscope, The Evaluation Criteria are as follows: (35%) a) Understanding of the nature of the work to be done as described in the Statement of Work, and of the problems involved in providing computer systems and programming support in a biomedical and regulatory research environment.(10%), b) Demonstrating a working knowledge of, or a plan to obtain working knowledge of, specialized computer systems for flow cytometry which have been developed by the Computer Systems Laboratories, Division of Computer Research and Technology at the National Institutes of Health.(10%), c) Demonstrating a working knowledge of, or a plan to obtain working knowledge of, technical issues involved in computer network management and in the use of servers to support local area networks of personal computers.(10%), d) The nature of the organization, management, staff mix, and methodologies and day-to-day operating procedures proposed for planning and execution of tasks.(5%), e) Extent of the offerors ability to attract and retain qualified professional technical staff.(10%), f) Evidence that the offeror has, or can readily obtain, the needed staff.(5%), g) Experience in providing computer systems and programming services in a research and develpment environment.(5%), h) Depth, training, and experience of additional staff to support heavier workloads or to provide technical advise/assistance to analyst/programmers working in the defined task areas of the Statement of Work.(2.5%),and i) Experience in providing services in a technical direction letter (technical directive) contracting situation.(2.5%). It is anticipated that the proposed contract will be performed on a CPFF (Term) basis and will be incrementally funded over a thirty-six (36) month performance period. The estimated level of effort for the entire performance period is approximately 2020 hours per year of programmer/analyist (journeyman-level) time and 80 hours per year of Project Director time. Written requests for the solicitation should be mailed to the above address. Telephonic requests will not be accepted. All responsible sources may submit an offer which will be considered. See Note 1. (0205)

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