Department of Health and Human Services, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Contracts Management Branch, OPRM, Parklawn Building, Room 10-49, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, Maryland 20857

R -- STATE AND LOCAL EPIDEMIOLOGY PLANNING AND INFORMATION DEVELOPMENT SOL NO1DA-6-5054 DUE 053096 POC Contact Point: Jeffrey Weiner, Contract Specialist (301) 443-6677; Nancy A. Hurd, Contracting Officer The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) is soliciting proposals from qualified organizations having the capability to provide logistical and technical services to organize and conduct work group meetings composed of drug abuse researchers during which the epidemiology of drug abuse will be discussed and produce meeting proceedings; provide research consultation and support for implementing ethnographic and qualitative research programs as an adjunct to epidemiologic methods in specified sites; provide direction and technical assistance in identifying new sources of epidemiologic information on drug abuse and for standardizing data collection and analysis; and identify effective methods for communicating drug abuse epidemiologic and ethnographic information. The SIC code for this accquisition is 7379. The proposed contract is 100 percent set aside for small disadvantaged business concerns (SDB). Offers from concerns other than SDBs will not be considered. SEE NUMBERED Note 4. Estimated issuance date of RFP No. NO1DA-6-5054 is April 15, 1996 and responses are due to be received in the Contracting Office 45 calendar days thereafter. Written requests for copies of solicitations will be honored if received within twenty calendar days after issuance of the solicitation. Written requests received after this period will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis until the supply is exhausted; however, there is no assurance that copies requested after the twentieth day will reach the requestor before the date for receipt of responses. The Government reserves the right to make more than one award or no award at all in response to this RFP. Moreover, the RFP may be amended or canceled if determined to be in the best interest of the Government. Written requests shall be forwarded to the attention of Contract Specialist, Jeffrey Weinger, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Parklawn Building, Room 10-49, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, Maryland 20857. (0060)

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