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D -- BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS OF HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING AND COMMUNICATIONS-NO1-LM-4-3510 POC Mary V. Adamik, Contracting Officer, 301-496-6546, email:mary_adamik@nih.gov. As part of the federal High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC) program, the National Library of Medicine Library of Medicine awarded 12 contracts to apply advanced computing and communications technologies to a range of health care applications that included the development of testbed networks for linking hospitals, clinics, doctors' offices, medical schools, medical libraries, and universities to enable health care providers and researchers to share medical data imagery. These contracts were awarded under a Broad agency announcement whereby Statements of Work were proposed by competing organizations to satisfy broad research areas. The National Library of Medicine proposes to negotiate on a sole source basis with Indiana University to add additional tasks to contract NO1-LM-4-3510 in order to allow for selected additional use and evaluation of their network. The additional tasks will allow evaluation of the usefulness of the network in supporting public health as well as health care functions. Authority: 41 U.S.C. (c)(1), as set forth in FAR 6.302-1. Unique capabilities for providing services, inherent duplication of cost to the government and unacceptable delays in completing this project make competition unfeasible for the final phase of the project. The Indiana University has developed a city-wide network connecting hospitals, laboratories, clinics, HMO offices, homeless care sites, and pharmacies and has established the protocols, standards, and methods for transferring data in this network. Network participants are exchanging selected electronic data to facilitate individual patient care. Indiana University is the only source that can rapidly and effeciently (1) extend this network to include selected state and city public health facilities, (2) develop the capability to analyze, summarize, and transfer to public health officials selected data from the health care facilities, laboratories, and pharmacies already linked by the network, and (3) direct the evaluation of the impact of this connection between health care and public health sectors at the state and municipal level. See Numbered Note(s): 26. See Numbered Note(s): 22. (0141)

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