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A -- BIOMEDICAL COMPUTING SUPPORT FOR CANCER PREVENTION AND CONTROL SOL N01-CN-75003-05 DUE 120596 POC Gary Topper, Contract Specialist, 301-496-8603; Victor S. Buyny, Contracting Officer, 301-496-8603. ELECTRONIC RFP ANNOUNCEMENT. The proposed contract is a 100% set-aside for small business concerns. For the purpose of this procurement a small business is classified as small if its average annual receipts for its preceding three (3) fiscal years do not exceed $18 million. The Standard Industrial Code applicable to this acquisition is 7379. It is anticipated that one cost reimbursement, level of effort contract will be awarded for five (5) years. The primary purpose of this acquisition is to provide analytical and computer support - oriented support to Division of Cancer Prevention and Control activities involving computer systems development and maintenance, computing programming related to statistical analyses and operations research, data management for cancer control research, and other information processing. A ''reading room'' containing reference materials pertinent to this procurement will be made available. Offerors must demonstrate the ability to be available within 24 hours notice for meetings and receipt and delivery of data, reports and documents to the National Cancer Institute, Executive Plaza North, Bethesda, Maryland 20892. This announcement represents recompetition of a contract currently being performed by Information Management Services, Inc. of Silver Spring, Maryland. The RFP will be available electronically on or about October 10, 1996, and may be accessed through either the NIH Gopher, or the NIH Home Page by using the following electronic mail addresses and instructions: 1) to access the NIH Gopher: Point your gopher client to GOPHER.NIH.GOV PORT 70 (You should now be in the NIH Gopher). Select ''Grant & Research Information'', then select ''R&D Requests for Proposals (RFP)''. 2) NIH Home Page (via the World Wide Web): Access the NIH Home Page by using http://www.nih.gov. Once you are at the NIH Home Page, select ''Grants & Contracts'', then select ''R&D Request for Proposals (RFP)''. Please note that the RFP will include only the Statement of Work, Deliverables, Proposal Preparation Instructions, Special Requirements, Mandatory Qualification Criteria, and Technical Evaluation Criteria. All information required for the submission of a proposal will be contained in the electronic RFP package. Point of contact: Gary P. Topper, Electronic mail address: topperg@rcb.nci.nih.gov Fax: (301)402-8579. No collect calls will be accepted (0254)

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