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R -- INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND OTHER SUPPORT SERVICES SOL NIMH-95-OD-0008 POC Contact Point, Tricia Gibbons, 301/443-2696, Contracting Officer, David J. Eskenazi, 301/443-2696 The proposed procurement is Set-Aside 100 percent for Small Business participation, the SIC code is 7379 and the size standard is 18 million dollars. The primary purpose of this contract is to provide continued information systems, support services to the Office on AIDS, National Institute of Mental Health/National Institute of Health (NIMH/NIH) on a day-to-day basis to complete ongoing office requirements and to develop, operate, and maintain new data systems which will be integrated into current NIMH/NIH systems. This contract will allow the office on AIDS to maintain a complicated coding system for the AIDS grant portfolio in order to respond accurately and efficiently to public inquiries, prepare congressional budget junstifications, and preparation of reports. In addition, this contract shall provide that the contractor perform a specified range of effort for various tasks needed by the NIMH during the next five years. The Office on AIDS routinely receives requests on an average of 2 per day for information from the Office of AIDS Research, NIH, often from 2-3 different individuals from the Office of AIDS Research with 2-3 different deadlines. The requests are broad in scope and complexity, ranging from numbers of grants in the portfolio to very complex budget spreadsheets and narrative for budget justification. All grants within the office are coded with 3-4 AIDS coding groups (codes are unique to OA). The contractor must have the capability to retrieve data on these projects by any of the coding mechanisms or grant/contract mechanisms and sorted a variety of ways to repond to inquiries and requests. There are ongoing quarterly reports, detailing each grant, coded by various mechanisms and the dollars associated with each mechanism. A sixty month cost reimbursement type contract is anticipated. RFP #NIMH-95-OD-0008 is scheduled for issuance on or about 15 days after publication of this notice and will close approximately 30 calendar days thereafter. All requests must be made in writing or by FAX (301) 443-0143. Telephone requests will not be honored. See Numbered Note 1. (0208)

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