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FBO DAILY ISSUE OF JUNE 19, 2003 FBO #0567
SOLICITATION NOTICE

A -- Visible Human Project Image Processing Tools

Notice Date

6/17/2003
 

Notice Type

Solicitation Notice
 

Contracting Office

Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Library of Medicine, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD, 20894
 

ZIP Code

20894
 

Solicitation Number

N-A-SOLE-SOURCE
 

Archive Date

6/30/2003
 

Point of Contact

Daniel Hartinger, Contracting Officer, Phone 301 496-6546, Fax 301 402-0642,
 

E-Mail Address

HARTIND@mail.nlm.nih.gov
 

Description

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) awarded contract N01-LM-9-3531 on September 28, 1999, to General Electric Corporate Research and Development, One Research Circle, Niskayuna, New York, 12309 to assist in the development of an application programmer interface (API) known as the Insight Toolkit (ITK), and first implementation of a Segmentation and Registration Toolkit (SRT). It is the intent of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to negotiate with General Electric Corporate Research and Development on a sole source basis to extend the current contract number N01-LM-9-3531 for twelve months to continue the overall goals of the project, which include streamlining the existing ITK code, improving the consistency of the internal software architecture, extending documentation of the existing algorithms and methods, and generating examples suitable for inclusion in courseware and educational materials associated with ITK. General Electric Corporate Research and Development is currently providing the required services, and will continue to participate in a design review of the ITK software, to improve, support, expand and rework DART, the internet-based, distributed regression testing structure of ITK, to accommodate acceptance testing of consortium contributed and publicly contributed code (including style, test coverage, and documentation as well as develop a mechanism to produce an electronic software acceptance ticket), and to demonstrate the integration of ITK with other visualization software through publishable examples. General Electric Corporate Research and Development has been performing the required services for the past three and a half years under the current contract. This requirement represents a continuation of the services they are currently providing to the NLM. By virtue of their expertise and experience gained through their development and implementation under the current contract, General Electric Corporate Research and Development is uniquely qualified and the only source capable of carrying out these required services in the required time frame and without duplication of cost to the government and undue delays. This notice of intent is not a Request for Proposals (RFP), nor is an RFP available. Based on authority cited in 41 U.S.C. 253(c)(1) (FAR 6.302-1(a)(2)), award to General Electric Corporate Research and Development without full and open competition is planned. See Numbered Notes 22 and 26.
 

Place of Performance

Address: One Research Circle, Niskayuna, NY

Zip Code: 12309

Country: USA
 

Record

SN00349435-W 20030619/030617213257 (fbodaily.com)
 

Source

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