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A -- RLMP SOFTWARE SUPPORT SOL NIH-NIAID-96-20 DUE 040896 POC Paul D. McFarlane, Contracting Officer, 301-496-0349. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) plans to contract with Dataworks Development, Incorporated (Dataworks) to provide access to and support for their Retrovirus Laboratory Management Program (RLMP version 6.0) for virology research laboratories participating in research studies sponsored by the NIAID. The RLMP is Dataworks' proprietary software and as such only Dataworks can provide the necessary support. Therefore, the Government intends to solicit and negotiate with this sole source under authority of 41 USC 253(c)(1) and FAR 6.302-1 to acquire these services. The resultant contract is expected to last for 12 months. The RLMP is a laboratory-based computer program that partly automates the logging and tracking of human specimens for AIDS clinical research projects, the electronic acquisition of virologic assay results, the preparation of data files, and the electronic transfer of data to a central database. The RLMP is currently in use for the aforementioned purposes. Continued access to and support for this software and cooperation by Dataworks in an orderly transfer of functions to an alternative system are required to avoid a disruption of the Institute's research programs. See numbered Note 22. No collect calls will be accepted. (0022)

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