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A -- BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS OF THE NEXT GENERATION INTERNET SOL BAA/RFP NLM 99-106/RMC POC Robin M. Cummings, Contracting Officer (301) 496-6546 The National Library of Medicine seeks to demonstrate the use of the Next Generation Internet (NGI) capabilities in health care, public health and health education, and biomedical, clinical and health services research by supporting testbed networks linking hospitals, clinics, health practitioner's offices, health professional schools, health sciences libraries, universities, and/or public health authorities to demonstrate revolutionary applications in healthcare, health education and medical research which are dependent on at least two of the following technical capabilities being developed for the NGI: quality of service; medical data privacy and security; nomadic computing; network management; and infrastructure technology as a means for scientific collaboration. Project proposals must have a strong evaluation component designed to improve understanding of the impact of NGI capabilities on the nation's healthcare, health education and/or research systems in such areas as cost, quality, usability, efficacy and security. The NGI Project is a three-phase program. In 1998, NLM awarded 24 purchase orders for Phase I project plans. Some or all of these plans will be implemented in local testbed settings under Phase II noncompetitive follow-on acquisitions. Phase I awardees are not prohibited from submitting new proposals under this competitive Phase II acquisition. This acquisition is for Phase II competitive Project Proposals only. Phase II seeks to define NGI capabilities in health care, public health and health education, and biomedical, clinical and health services through the development of local or short distance testbeds that will simulate the NGI. To demonstrate their scalability, the NLM envisions that some or all of successful Phase II projects will be implemented in nationwide or long distance testbed settings in Phase III via noncompetitive follow-on acquisitions. BAA/RFP NLM 99-106/RMC will be available in electronic format only. Paper copies will not be issued. BAA/RFP may be downloaded from theNational Library of Medicine (NLM), Office of Acquisitions Management (OAM) homepage on the World Wide Web (WWW). OAM's URL is: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/oam/oam.html. All responsible sources may submit a proposal which will be considered by the National Library of Medicine. It is anticipated that proposals will be due on or about May 19, 1999. Posted 04/01/99 (W-SN315229). (0091)

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