National Institutes of Health, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Contracts Operations Branch, 6701 Rockledge Drive, Room 6100, MSC 7902, Bethesda, MD 20892

R -- PROFESSIONAL, ADMINISTRATIVE, AND MANAGEMENT SUPPORT SERVICES SOL NHLBI-PS-2000-599 DUE 051100 POC Deborah Coulter, Purchasing Agent, (301) 435-0368 Fax (301) 480-3345 The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute intends to issued a non-competitive modification to the existing purchase order, number 263-MJ-004384, with Human Systems Technology Corporation, 10632 Little Patuxent Parkway, Columbia, Maryland, 21044. Through competitive procedures Human Systems Technology Corporation ( HSTC) was issued a purchase order to provide professional intervention by an industrial / organizational psychologist to devise an incentive program in the Division of Receipt and Referral (DRR) of the Center for Scientific Review (CSR), National Institutes of Health. HSTC successfully completed the professional intervention for DRR thereby gaining an in-depth knowledge of the mission and operation of CSR. It is CSR's intent that HSTC provide services to the other Divisions of CSR, therefore, necessitating this modification. In order to maintain continuity of the methodologies used for the project and due to the knowledge gained by HSTC in the initial competitive acquisitions, an award toany other sources for this requirement would result in a substantial duplication of cost to the Government that is not expected to be recovered through competition. The Statement of Work for this requirement is as follows: Background: CSR contracted with Human Systems Technology Corporation to provide professional intervention by industrial/organizational psychologists to devise an incentive program in several of the CSR Divisions which involves making recommendations of appropriate staffing levels, of productivity incentives, employee career assessment and retraining opportunities, as well as state-of-the-art good business practices that could be instituted. With the completion of this contract, CSR Management will have ensured that the entire grant application receipt and review cycle, upon which all NIH's grant funded research depends, had been analyzed. The Contractor will be producing a consistent and logical set of recommendations, covering the full spectrum of grant application receipt, referral and review, to guide CSR Management in setting workload measurement benchmarks and providing appropriate staffing levels to ensure more complete and timely scientific grant review for the funding institutes. Objective: As a logical extension to the deliverables, the contractor shalll complete the intervention cycle by providing career assessment services to those employees who will be affected as a result of the implementation of the study's recommendations. SPECIFIC TASK: Task 1: The Contractor shall review current business practices and production standards within the three review divisions, shall undertake to thoroughly understand the relationships among the three steps involved in the scientific review of grant applications, and shall make recommendations to CSR Management so that state-of-the-art good business practices may be institutes as needed. The contractor shall make use of protocols similar to those utilized in the study of the Division of Reciept and Referral in orde to provide congruency within the CSR grant application review process. Task 2a: The contractor shall make available to CSR Management any other observations gathered during the review process protocol that may reflect on the effectiveness of implementing those productivity recommendations make by the contractor. Task 2b: After the contractor's recommendations have been accepted by CSR Management, the contractor will schedule individual sessions with affected employees for the purpose of carrying out a skills assessment to be used in placing the employee in CSR or NIH ICs. The contractor shall train such CSR employees as designated by CSR Management to utilize the completed individual employee skills assessments in counseling the affected employees. Place of Performance: Work will be performed at the Government buildings on Rockledge Drive and at the contractor's site. Period of Performance: Extended through December 31, 2000. This acquisition is being conducted under simplified acquisition procedures. The Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Code 8742, Size Standard $5.0M is applicable to this requirement. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals. Interested parties may identify their interest and capabilities in response to this requirement. The determination by the Government not to compete the proposed contract based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information received will normally be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct future competitive procurement. Responses to this announcement, referencing synopsis number NHLBI-PS-2000-599 may be submitted to the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Contracts Operations Branch, Procurement Section, Building RKL2, Room 6143, 6701 Rockledge Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892-7902. Attention: Deborah Coulter, Purchasing Agent. All responsible sources may submit a proposal, which if timely received, shall be considered by the agency. Posted 05/05/00 (W-SN451985). (0126)

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