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B -- ACQUIRE SERVICE FOR A PHYSICIAN TO STUDY POPULATION AT HIGH RISK FOR HIV INFECTION SOL 263-97-P(BD)-0044 DUE 091897 POC Contact Marcia Goldman, Contract Specialist, (301) 496-2302 This is a combined solicitation/synopsis for commercial items description, prepared in accordance with the format in FAR 12.6, as supplemented with additional information included in this notice.This notice constitutes the only solicitation, a written solicitation will not be issued. The solicitation, No. 263-97-P(BD)-0044, is issued as a RFP. The solicitation/contract will include all applicable provisions and clauses in effect through FAC 90-46. The standard industrial code is 8099, and the business size is 500 employees. The National Institutes of Health, (NIA) Laboratory of Personality & Cognition, National Institute of Aging (NIA) in Baltimore Maryland has a requirement to acquire the services of a physician together with his or her intact and current patient population at high risk for Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection. In particular, it is important to study the behavior of some under-served populations of individuals, such as those people within a minority group(s) withdifficult access. The NIH intends to contract with Henry L. Masters, III, M.D. HealthSmart, PA., 425 W. Capital Avenue, Suite 3812, Little Rock, Arkansas under the authority of FAR 6-302-1 for these services It is the Government's belief that Henry L. Masters, III, is the sole source for these services. Administered to 190 participants (consisting of essentially minority individuals) who reside in or represent urban and rural areas, substance abusers, community recreation attendees, and correctional inmates, who are also at high risk for HIV infection, the following measures: 1) Slosson Oral Reading Test (SORT) 2) Personality assessment using items from the Revised NEO Personality Inventory or the NEO Five-Factor Inventory (if reading grade level on SORT less than seventh grade) 3) Stages of Change for condom use for both main and casual partners -- -five-item measure by Grimly, Prochaska, and Prochaska (1993) -- (two separate four-item staging algorithms will be used, one for condom use with a main partner and the second for condom use with casual partners) 4) Self-Efficacy for Condom Use assessed with five-item scale. 5)Ten-item scale of Advantages and Disadvantages of Condom Use 6) Twenty Eight-item Processes of Change for Condom Use scale. Outcome measures shall include: 1) Serologic test results for HIV and syphilis 2) Quantitative HIV viral load and CD-4 counts. 3)Thirty six-item Medical Outcomes Survey (MOS SF-36). Score all tests; enter data on a computer file (format to be determined by the Project Officer); verify accuracy of data entry; conduct preliminary analysis (e.g., frequency distributions); provide data analysis, data files, and annotated code books to investigators at the Laboratory of Personality and Cognition, Gerontology Research Center, National Institute of Aging. FAR provision 52.212-1 Instructions to Offerors-Commercial, applies to this acquisition. Award will be made to the technically acceptable low offer. A completed copy of the provision 52-212-3, Offeror Representatives and Certifications- Commercial Items, is required as part of the offer. The clause 52.212-4 Contract Terms and Conditions- Commercial Items applies to this acquisition.The clause at 52.212-5, Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statutes Or Executive Orders-Commercial Items applies to this acquisition. The Contractor will be paid on a partial payment basis. CBD NUMBERED NOTE: Note 22 applies. Sources demonstrating the capability to accomplish the above shall provide pertinent information that is in sufficient detail to demonstrate their ability to perform. Information furnished should include enough material to conduct a proper evaluation. Respondents will not be notified of the evaluation results. Offer is due on or before July 18, 1997, to the attention of Marcia Goldman at the above address. (0195)

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