DHHS/PHS/FDA/Office of Facilities, Acquisitions, And Central Services, Division Of Contracts and Program Management, HFA-511(ITCB), 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857

D -- DEVELOP SOFTWARE ENHANCEMENTS TO PROPRIETARY SOFTWARE SOL 128632 DUE 081100 POC Contract Administrator: Kelly B. Mitchell-Baynes (301/827-7164), Contracting Officer: Ida Cofield (301/827-7156), Fax: (301/827-7151) The Food and Drug Administration intends to issue a purchase order on a sole source basis to PPD Informatics, 84 Sherman Street, Cambridge, MA 02140. To develop software enhancements to proprietary software for use in the data mining of the VAERS database at CBER. Vendor shall provide 5 full licenses to proprietary software (CrossGraphs), and one temporary license (for the duration of the project) to proprietary software (TrableTrans). Vendor will also provide enhancements to the public domain software program ("GPS"), used in the data mining activity, which was originally developed for the FDA. This is a combined synopis/solicitation for commerical items prepared in accordance with the format in Subpart 12.6, as supplimented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement consititues the only solicitation; proposals are being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued. FAR Clauses 52.212-4, Contract Terms and Conditions-Commerical Items and 52.212-1, Instructions toOfferors. A fixed price purchase order will be issued to the offeror whose proposal offers the best value to the government. FAR Clauses can be found at www.arnet.gov. Posted 07/28/00 (W-SN479889). (0210)

Loren Data Corp. http://www.ld.com (SYN# 0021 20000801\D-0007.SOL)

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