SOURCES SOUGHT
99 -- Multivariate analysis Cardiovascular Health Risk
- Notice Date
- 6/23/2009
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 611310
— Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools
- Contracting Office
- National Institutes of HealthNational Institutes on Aging, IRPNIH Biomedical Research CenterSuite 100, Room 04C009251 Bayview BlvdBaltimoreMD21224-2815
- ZIP Code
- 21224-2815
- Solicitation Number
- NIHAG2009085
- Response Due
- 7/2/2009
- Archive Date
- 8/1/2009
- Point of Contact
- BLACKWOOD, Michael J +1 410 558 8557, blackwoodmj@mail.nih.gov<br />
- E-Mail Address
-
BLACKWOOD, Michael J
(blackwoodmj@mail.nih.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The National Institute of Aging (NIA), IRP, intends to negotiate and award a purchase order on a competitive basis for the purchase of the following services listed below under Simplified Acquisition Procedures. This notice may represent the only official notice.To analyze the associations of historical data on intimal media thickness and other cardiovascular health risk with cognitive and other psychosocial measures collected as part of the ongoing Early Markers of cognitive Change and Alzheimers disease and Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging studies also compare result to analogous baseline measures collected during the first examination wave of the Health Aging in Neighborhoods of Diversity across the life Span study. This procurement will provide crucial results to improve our understanding of the ways in which factors such as hypertension, arterial compliance, atherosclerosis, and other cardiovascular risk factors influence age associated change in cognitive performance and other psychological measure. A.Description of supplies and services required to meet program need: Statistical software for analyses and data organization.B.This contract will provide the government with expertise crucial for examining the association of cardiovascular risk factors and their relationships with age-associated cognitive changes.C.Date of Project Initiation: Immediately upon award. D.Perform sophisticated multivariate anlyses and write publication-quality reports on the relationships of cardiovascular health risks with cognitive and psychosocial measures from ongoing studies in our laboratory, the Early Markers of Cognitive Change and Alzheimers Disease, Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging in Neighborhoods of Diversity across the Life Span study. These analyses will apply hierarchical growth modeling procedures to these data in an effort to detect differences in rates of change in psychological measures associated with risk factors for cardiovascular conditions. The fundamental scientific paradigm guiding research in the Laboratory of Personality and Cognition is the analyses of individual defferences. Few phenomena are more basic than the fact that human beings differ in health, in rates of aging, in cognitive ability, in personality, in happiness, and in life satisfaction. The Cognition Section studies the psychological mechanisms that distinguish pathological from healthy, age-related cognitive changes in a broad range of cognitive tasks including short-term and long-term memory, visuo-spatial rotation, attention and decision tasks, and problem solving. Studies focus on structural and functional brain changes using neuroimaging and their relationship to changes in cognitive performance and the development of dementia. Studies also examine the psychological and psycho-physiological mechanisms underlying age-related changes in memory, learning and reasoning, problem solving, information processing, and the roles of psychological and physiological characteristics in age differences and age changes in cognitive performances.Interested persons may identify their interest and capability to respond to the requirement or submit proposals. This notice is a request for competitive proposals. However, all proposals received prior to July 3, 2009 will be considered by the government. A determination by the government not to compete with this proposed contract based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the government.This is a solicitation for non commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in FAR Subpart 16.2, utilizing competitive procedures. These procedures include those identified under Subparts 6.1, 6.2 (Full and Open Competition and Full and Open Competition after Exclusions of Sources), and FAR Section 16.505(b) (1). The solicitation number is NIHAG2009085 and is issued as a request for Quotation (RFQ). The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code is 611310 Only electronic offers will be accepted. Offers are due to Mr. M. Blackwood @blackwoodmj@mail.nih.gov by 1600 hrs, July 2-2009, LOCAL PREVAILING TIME. NIA/IRP, BRC Bldg, Room #: 04C009A, 251 Bayview Blvd, Baltimore, MD 21224.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: Naional Institute on Aging251 Bayview BlvdBaltimoreMD21224USA<br />
- Zip Code: 21224<br />
- Zip Code: 21224<br />
- Record
- SN01853321-W 20090625/090623235848-4c8034314fad4df1dbd516ba416f62b2 (fbodaily.com)
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