SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- Health Services and Sciences Research Resources (HSRR)
- Notice Date
- 6/25/2007
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 541990
— All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
- Contracting Office
- National Institutes of Health National Library of Medicine 8600 Rockville Pike Building 38A, Room B1N20 Bethesda MD 20892-7511 U.S
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- NIHLM2007005
- Response Due
- 7/9/2007
- Archive Date
- 8/8/2007
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in FAR 12.6 as supplemented with additional information contained in this notice. This procurement is being conducted under Simplified Acquisition Procedures in accordance with FAR Part 13.5. This solicitation document and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through the March 2007 Federal Acquisition Regulation revision, which includes the consolidation of all Federal Acquisition Circulars through 2005-16. This acquisition is NOT small business set-aside and the NAICS code is 541990. This announcement constitutes the formal Request for Quotation (RFQ) and a written solicitation WILL NOT be issued. The purpose of this procurement is to obtain the services from the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research to provide expert enhancement of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), Health Services and Sciences Research Resources (HSSR) database. It is the intent of the NLM to negotiate on a sole source basis under Statutory Authority FAR 6.302-1 from Cecil G. Sheps Center to provide their expert HSR and public health subject and technical knowledge of North Carolina and other state and local level data, shall: 1) evaluate North Carolina state and local level data tools, including datasets, instruments/indices and analytical software, for appropriateness for the HSRR; 2) add individual in-depth records with preformatted subject PubMed searches for identified tools; and 3) apply keywords and topic subset (recommend new topic subsets when applicable) codes to records. This project requires a detailed and broad understanding of various types of North Carolina and other state and local level datasets, survey instruments, and other tools useful for health services research including public health. The Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research is one of the nation's oldest and largest health services research centers. Located on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the center encompasses an interdisciplinary program of research, consultation, technical assistance and training focusing on the accessibility, adequacy, organization, cost and effectiveness of health care services. Sheps Center staff regularly conduct research with datasets for projects studying hospital networks, nursing home residents' attitudes, childhood immunizations receipt, measure of medical under service, and telemedicine. This work encompasses identifying, locating and evaluating the usefulness of data files and/or instruments for projects. The Center's expert health services researchers frequently use data sources such as physician supply, general demographics, rural/urban indicators, and hospital survey information. Staff use data files for specific projects such as disease incidence, locations of federally supported health clinics, regional economic indicators, residential socioeconomic status indicators, population projections, industry-specific employment, toxic waste sites, and hospital discharge data. Additionally, Sheps Center staff have developed several North Carolina state data systems with local level data including the North Carolina Health Professions Data System. Sheps Center staff are expert health services researchers and librarians skilled in identification, evaluation and analysis and use of HSR and public health datasets and instruments and searching HSR information systems and are, therefore, uniquely qualified to evaluate North Carolina and other state and local level data tools and identify those suitable for the HSRR database and to create in-depth individual records. The award will be for a Base Year with options for four (4) successive one-year periods. All proposals received within fifteen (15) days from the date of publication of this synopsis will be considered by NLM. EMAILS AND FACSIMILES WILL NOT BE ACCEPTABLE. The quoter shall include all information which documents and/or supports the qualification criteria in one clearly marked section of its quotation. All responses from responsible sources will be considered. Inquiries regarding this procurement may be made to the National Library of Medicine, Office of Acquisitions Management, 8600 Rockville Pike, Building 38A, Room B1N20, Bethesda, Maryland 20894, Attention: Uyen H. Phuong, Contracting Officer, on (301) 496-6127. Vendor shall comply with all applicable Federal, State and Local laws, executive orders, rules and regulations applicable to its performance under this order. Full text of clauses and provisions are available at Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR): htm://www.amet.gov/far/. The following clauses and provisions shall apply to this acquisition and maybe obtained from the web sites: FAR 52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors ? Commercial Items (September 2006); FAR 52.212-2, Evaluation ? Commercial Items (January 1999); FAR 52.212-3, Offeror Representations and Certifications ? Commercial Items (November 2006) ? with DUNS Number Addendum [52.204-6 (October 2003)]; FAR 52.212-4, Contract Terms and Conditions - Commercial Items) (February 2007); FAR 52.212-4, Addendum to Clause for Year 2000 Compliance (July 1997); and FAR 52.212-5, Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statutes or Executive Orders ? Commercial Items (March 2007).
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