SOURCES SOUGHT
R -- Support to Provide Access to Bioethics Information Resources and Collections
- Notice Date
- 6/26/2009
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541990
— All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Library of Medicine, 6707 Democracy Blvd., Suite 105, Bethesda, Maryland, 20894, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20894
- Solicitation Number
- NLM-09-124-AN
- Archive Date
- 8/11/2009
- Point of Contact
- Alex Navas, Phone: 301-435-4393, Erin - Goldstein, Phone: 301-496-6546
- E-Mail Address
-
anavas@nlm.nih.gov, egoldstein@nih.gov
(anavas@nlm.nih.gov, egoldstein@nih.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- This Sources Sought announcement is in support of market research being conducted by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) / National Library of Medicine (NLM) to identify qualified sources capable of performing the requirements identified in the scope of work below. The intended procurement will be classified under North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code 541990. The requirement will be solicited at a future date as a full and open competitive procurement, and will include performance-based components within the Statement of Work. This is not a request for technical or cost proposals. No solicitation is available at this time and requests for solicitation packages will not receive a response. This Sources Sought notice is for information and planning purposes only and is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government. No reimbursement will be made for any costs associated with providing information in response to this Synopsis. Collect telephone calls will not be accepted. Respondents to this market survey must provide a capability statement demonstrating experience, personnel, qualifications, resources, technical skills, and capability to fulfill the Government requirements described below. The capability statement shall be sufficiently detailed to allow the Government to determine the organization's qualifications and experience to perform the work. No proprietary, classified, confidential, or sensitive information should be included in your response. The Government reserves the right to use any non-propriety technical information in any resultant solicitation(s). Responses by fax or email will not be accepted. Respondents are advised that the Government is under no obligation to acknowledge receipt of the information received or provide feedback to respondents with respect to any information submitted. Please submit one original plus two copies of your capability statement to address of the Contracting Officer. Background Information Bioethics is a branch of applied ethics that studies the value implications of practices and developments in life sciences, medicine and health care. The discipline includes such topics as the allocation of health care resources, health care research, patients' rights, professional ethics, in vitro fertilization and other reproductive technologies, euthanasia, AIDS, organ donation and transplantation, and biotechnology issues. Bioethics literature draws from multidisciplinary areas including biology, law, medicine, psychology, philosophy, religion and public policy. Bringing together and organizing the information from these varied sources offers a useful contribution to the public welfare. In 1985 the United States Congress asked the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to establish a National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature (herein known as NRCBL) which would operate under a grant from NLM. Georgetown University, Kennedy Institute of Ethics (KIE) was awarded a five-year grant to develop the center. The grant was renewed for another four years after that, ending on September 29, 1994. Since September 30, 1994, contract support has been provided by NLM for the NRCBL. During this same period NLM provided separate funding for the creation and indexing of bibliographic citations for NLM databases. Starting in 1974 (originally as a grant and later under subsequent contracts), the Kennedy Institute of Ethics developed and maintained the BIOETHICSLINE database at NLM. As of 2001, after all specialty database data was converted to the appropriate NLM systems, bibliographic data went into either Voyager (monographic or audiovisual type materials) or DCMS (Data Creation and Maintenance System) (journal like material). The Voyager data was searched via Locatorplus/NLM Catalog and the DCMS data via the PubMed database. On January 1, 2005 the two contract efforts were merged into one contract award. Two years later the contract was modified on February 1, 2007, to only cover the support of the National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature (NRCBL) Library activities. On January 1, 2010, a new contract shall begin which will focus on supporting the access to bioethics information resources and collections. Scope of Work The purpose of this contract will be to support the free access to bioethics information resources and collections. This contract has four discrete tasks or projects. The tasks are independent of each-other and each has its own sub-tasks defined. •Task 1: Acquisitions of special bioethics material This activity covers the acquisition of special bioethics material, unique manuscripts/monographs/series, and special information resources not readily accessible in a standard U.S. academic library collection. This task includes sub-tasks specific to: selection, acquisitions, cataloging and reporting. •Task 2: Inclusion of non-journal material in a publicly searchable and free database This activity supports the data creation and indexing of citation records from non-journal materials, such as court cases, legislation, laws, bills, and newspaper articles into a publicly searchable database that is freely accessible. Sub-tasks for this activity include: selection, data Creation and quality control (maintenance) of citations, indexing of citations with controlled vocabulary, and reporting. •Task 3: Identification of special collections in the field of bioethics This task requires the Contractor to investigate and identify bioethics-based special collections that exist in U.S. academic and medical libraries. English language collections are the focus. The materials should cover items of interest to researchers and students in the field of bioethics, as well as items of interest to the general public. The sub-tasks for this activity include: creation of a project plan detailing how special bioethics collections will be researched and investigated; identification of special bioethics collections and a report of the collections identified; creation of a detailed report and associated cost analysis for identified potential cataloging projects; and creation of a Bibliography of the identified bioethics collections. •Task 4: Development of a Web site that provides an integrated location for bioethics resources for searching and accessing by the general public NLM's intent with this task is to fund the initial development and creation of a web-based bioethics Web site, or enhancement of an existing bioethics Web site that would, in either case, link to information resources of interest to the general public. Sub-tasks for this activity include: investigation of appropriate information resources for bioethics Web site; creation of a project plan for the Web site; creation, maintenance or enhancement of the Web site; and reporting. Please submit one original plus two copies of your capability statement to the following address: Alex Navas Contract Specialist National Institutes of Health National Library of Medicine Office of Acquisitions 6707 Democracy Blvd. Suite 105 Bethesda, Maryland 20892-5488
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- Place of Performance
- Address: Contractor site., United States
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