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A -- RESEARCH SUPPORT SERVICES FOR THE UMLS METATHESAURUS SOL NLM 99-101/EAS POC Eve A. Schaefer, Contracting Officer/Mary M. Smith, Contracting Officer (301) 496-6546 WEB: RFP NLM 99-101/EAS, http://www.nlm.nih.gov/oam/oam.html. This procurement is set-aside 100% for small businesses. The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is seeking research support services for the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) Metathesaurus. NLM needs assistance in six specific areas: (1) analysis of the structure and semantics of a variety of biomedical information sources; (2) refinement of the logic, algorithms, and software for pre-processing and editing these sources to insert into the Metathesaurus; (3) lexical and semantic analysis of the Metathesaurus; (4) refinement of systems to support simultaneous distributed maintenance of the Metathesaurus and its multiple sources and production of Metathesaurus editions; (5) development of algorithms, data structures, software, and procedures that support the use of the Metathesaurus and related UMLS products in vocabularies and classifications maintained by U.S. government agencies; and (6) development of algorithms, data structures, and procedures for employing the UMLS Metathesaurus to enhance U.S. government health care, public health, and research information systems. The contractor will require thorough familiarity with the UMLS Metathesaurus and expertise in clinical and biomedical sciences, medical informatics, computer science, library and information science, natural language processing, and thesaurus construction. The work requires a T1 Internet connection, computer resources comparable to multiple-cpu Sun server architecture with at least 75 gigabytes of storage, a Unix operating system, Perl, Unix tools, Ingres and Oracle RDBMS, and experience in the use of these tools. See Numbered Note 1. RFP NLM 99-101/EAS will be available in electronic format only. Paper copies will not be issued. The RFP may be downloaded on or about March 24, 1999 from the National Library of Medicine World Wide Web home page. The URL for the NLM home page is <http://www.nlm.nih.gov/oam/oam.html&;gt;. See RFP for exact due date for proposals. Posted 03/01/99 (W-SN303247). (0060)

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