SOURCES SOUGHT
D -- SMALL BUSINESS SOURCES SOUGHT- Audiovisual Equipment Installation and Maintenance - SOW
- Notice Date
- 6/9/2011
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 334310
— Audio and Video Equipment Manufacturing
- 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-11-109-RLS
- Archive Date
- 7/5/2011
- Point of Contact
- Ryan L Singletary, Phone: 301-496-6546
- E-Mail Address
-
Ryan.singletary@nih.gov
(Ryan.singletary@nih.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- A draft of the SOW. This Sources Sought Notice is for informational and planning purposes only and shall not be construed as a solicitation or as an obligation or commitment by the Government. This notice is intended strictly for Market Research. The National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Library of Medicine (NLM) is conducting a market survey to help determine the availability and technical capability of qualified small businesses, veteran-owned small businesses, service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses and/or HUBZone small businesses capable of serving the needs identified below. BACKGROUND INFORMATION The Office of Computer and Communications Systems (OCCS) provides efficient, cost-effective computing and networking services, application development, technical advice, and collaboration in informational sciences to support NLM's research and management programs. OCCS develops and provides the NLM backbone computer networking facilities, and assists other NLM components with connectivity and local area networking. OCCS provides professional programming services and computational and data processing to meet NLM program needs. OCCS also operates and maintains the NLM Computer Center; develops software; and provides extensive customer support, training courses, and documentation for computer and network users. OCCS engages to coordinate, integrate, and standardize the vast array of computer services available across the organizations within the NLM, and also provides technological resources for other parts of the NLM and for other Federal organizations with biomedical, statistical, and administrative computing needs. The Medical Language Branch (MLB) within OCCS is responsible for providing technical support for many of NLM's national and international programs. This application development branch provides: requirements definition services, recommendations for system architectures and implementation strategies, design and develop computer solutions including hardware and software, plans for and implementation of database management solutions, maintenance and enhancements for existing systems, consulting services to NLM offices related to information technology, and evaluations of emerging technologies. PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVES OF THE PROCUREMENT The Medical Language Branch of OCCS recently relocated to commercial office space in Bethesda, MD, and requires immediate assistance to supply, install and configure audio-visual gear in a newly renovated conference room. The MLB initially envisioned a conventional room-based video-teleconferencing platform supporting room-to-room audio/video (A/V) to interoperate with similarly configured rooms elsewhere. These requirements have narrowed, and now describe an HD projector/screen and audio-telephony solution. Audiovisual design work has been performed that describes describe these requirements in more detail. The narrower design retains features and engineering to permit the efficient build-out of this A/V provisioning to a broader video-teleconferencing solution that may be needed in the future. This conference room will be used in high-level presentations and meetings with other developers, customers, and dignitaries. Consequently, this A/V solution must reliably offer clear and noise-free audiovisual access from point to point, and deliver these signals with high fidelity. This A/V solution must offer a low-effort, easy-to-use, user control interface. Switching across different inputs, A/V sources, and functions shall be simple for the untrained user. The system shall be configured to permit responsive and near-seamless presentation of differing sources. The A/V solution shall be well integrated with the current space and furnishings, and, at very least, not detract from the character of this office environment to support leading-edge designers and developers of state-of-the art programming for international medical lexicons. SCOPE OF WORK Independently, and not as an agent for the government, the contractor shall provide the equipment and qualified and experienced personnel needed to install and configure this equipment to provide an easy-to-use solution for audiovisual control in a conference room for the National Library of Medicine. This work shall include: • Provisioning audiovisual equipment, • Professional installation of this A/V equipment into the conference room and furniture, • Programming/customizing the user control panel interface, • Configuration, testing, and optimization of this installed solution, • Scheduled tune-up/optimization follow-up, • The work may also, at the government's discretion, include the exercise of an optional agreement to provide on-call, as-needed, service support to maintain this solution. The proposed acquisition will be procured under FAR Part 13.5. The period of performance will be for one year from the date of the award plus four option years. All responsible sources may submit a capability statement which will be considered by the National Library of Medicine. This Sources Sought notice is not a Request for Quotes (RFQ), nor is an RFQ available. Interested firms responding to this sources sought notice must adhere to the following: (a) Provide a capability statement demonstrating relevant experience, skills and ability to fulfill the Government's requirements for the above. The capability statement should contain enough sufficient detail for the Government to make an informed decision regarding your capabilities, however, the statement should not exceed 10 pages. (b) The capability statement must identify the responder's small business type and size. (c) All capability statements must be submitted electronically no later than 3:00pm eastern standard time on Monday, June 20, 2011 to Ryan Singletary ryan.singletary@nih.gov A draft of the statement of work is attached.
- Web Link
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- Place of Performance
- Address: Bethesda, Maryland, 20894, United States
- Zip Code: 20894
- Zip Code: 20894
- Record
- SN02468414-W 20110611/110609234559-0137b46afe489d727b3690d83503738d (fbodaily.com)
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