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65 -- CLINICAL TRIALS PATENT MATCHING APPLICATION/SOFTWARE ANALYSIS PROGRAM SOL NCI-RFQ-00177-NV DUE 081700 POC Debbie Moore, Purchasing Agent 301-402-4509; Gail Zois, Contracting Officer 301-402-4509 The National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute (NCI), Division of Clinical Sciences plans on procuring a commercially available program from Synthesis Technologies, Inc., 4030 West Brake Lane, Building 4, Austin, Texas 78759. The provided supplies and/or services are commercial as defined in FAR Part 2, and this acquisition is being made in accordance with the test program for using simplified procedures for certain commercial items as authorized in FAR 13.5. Improved access to clinical trials data is required. This software package will facilitate the analysis and most importantly the linkage of biological and clinical data via a searchable repository. This will enable the physicians and other health care professionals to query the volumes of data for single and multiple individuals enrolled on one or multiple clinical trials. Synthesis Technologies, Inc. has developed a unique software program that enables physician-researchers to search patient record data via a text search program andcollect and collate information on specific modalities, therapies, variations in treatment protocols, disease, and linked diagnostic issues. In addition, this program reviews the text and detects negative issues thus avoiding the inclusion of false positive data in the analysis. The program also meets other required features, including: 1) PC based, 2) multiple user licenses (20), 3) Electronic, web based database that enable physicians/scientists to add information to the system and view that information as text rather than fill-in-the-blank menu driven records. 4) Access to the system via standard web browsers that can be tailored to the user's purpose/needs. 5) Laboratory results and medical information from other linked systems are accessible and searchable via the sysnthesys system. The use of standard general markup language (SGML) allows archived data to be ported into the system. 6) Text files are fully searchable with the added feature that false positive are eliminated. 7) Immediate access to patient related data enabling emergency/critical care personnel to review clinical information via a standard workstation, improving care. 8) Stored information can be culled to generate reports on treatment approach outcomes, adverse events/adverse interaction, disease-related risk factors, etc. The NCI researcher knows of no other commercially available program that can search text with the accuracy and speed noted above. Specifically, no other program has the capacity to eliminate false positives and search multiple specific medical parameters simultaneously. This is not a request for competitive quotation. However, if any interested party believes it possesses this capability and can perform the above requirement, it may submit a statement of capabilities. The statement of capabilities and any other information furnished must be in writing and must contain material in sufficient detail (including evidence of peer review and valid scientific publication of methodology data) to allow NCI to determine if the party can perform this requirement. Capability statements must be received in the contracting office by 1:00 p.m. EDT (Local Washington, D.C. time) on August 17, 2000. If you have any questions, please contact Debbie Moore, Purchasing Agent or Gail Zois, Contracting Officer on (301) 402-4509. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed requirement based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information received will be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. Posted 08/02/00 (W-SN480954). (0215)

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