SOURCES SOUGHT
B -- Collection and Coding of Nutritional Survey Data for the Healthy Aging in Neighborhoods of Diversity across the Life Span (HANDLS) Study.
- Notice Date
- 6/10/2013
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 611310
— Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Drug Abuse, 6001 Executive Boulevard, Room 4211 - MSC 9559, Bethesda, Maryland, 20892, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20892
- Solicitation Number
- SOSO2986907
- Point of Contact
- Mario D. Gray, Phone: 3014352238
- E-Mail Address
-
Mario.Gray@nih.hhs.gov
(Mario.Gray@nih.hhs.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- I. Introduction and Purpose: This is a ‘Notice for Sources Sought' for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) SubPart 19.5-Set-Asides for Small Business, and, is supplemented with additional information. This is not a solicitation for proposals, proposal abstracts, or quotations. This Government Issuing Agency and Contracting Office, on behalf of the Government Requiring Agency, seeks to obtain information regarding the availability and capability of all qualified small business sources to successfully meet the Government's requirements described in this notice. II. Small Business Interest: The purpose of this ‘Sources Sought Notice' is to allow any interested and capable small business to identify itself and its capabilities. Thus, the Government is seeking capability statements from capable small businesses including, but not limited to, the following types: 8(a), Veteran-Owned Small Business, Services-Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business, Historically Underutilized Business Zone Small Business, Small Disadvantaged Business, or Women-Owned Small Business. A small business shall use its capability statement to demonstrate that: 1. The small business possesses the capabilities to successfully meet the Government's requirements described in this notice; and, 2. The small business is competitive in terms of quality, delivery, and market prices. Based on the small business responses received, or not received, to this notice, the Government's requirements may be solicited as a 100% or Total Small Business Set-Aside. III. Background and Scope: The Government Requiring Agency's project looks to establish the planning documentation and epidemiological sample frame for conducting a longitudinal study that disentangles the confounding effects of race and socioeconomic status on long-term healthy aging. The goal of this project will focus on creating survey-sampling methodologies and applications unique to a diverse and complex population, spanning numerous and various socio-economic patterns, with a particular focus on assessment made by a longitudinal study. One unique study development goal to be established by this project is the development of criteria essential to assess nutritional status for segmenting a diverse population base. Nutrition monitoring methods including data collection, coding and analysis to be used to develop this criterion include multiple dietary recalls, blood biochemistries, functional status measures, food security measures, and anthropometrical measures. The Government Requiring Agency is embarking on a longitudinal study of the effects of race and socioeconomic status on healthy aging in a representative sample of community-dwelling residents from the Baltimore metropolitan region. This study requires a detailed knowledge of the public health characteristics of this region and the ways in which racial and socioeconomic data must be collected to assess their influence on a variety of health outcomes such as cardiovascular and cerebrovascular functioning, psychophysiological and cognitive performance, and muscular strength and conditioning. Nutritional status influences an individual's risk for the development of chronic conditions, thereby affecting a person's ability to live a healthy and productive life. This project will define the criteria for determining the sample population's nutritional status and the effects of nutritional status over the course of the longitudinal study. IV. Requirement Description: The small business shall demonstrate detailed knowledge, skill and abilities regarding the following work requirements: 1. Collection and Coding of Nutritional Survey Data for the Healthy Aging in Neighborhoods of Diversity across the Life Span (HANDLS) Study. 2. Maintenance and update of HANDLS dietary recall interview schedule. 3. Completion up to 25 dietary recall telephone interviews with HANDLS participants each week using the Automated Multiple Pass Method developed by United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). 4. Scoring and entering data collected from each dietary recall interview. 5. Processing all dietary recall interviews utilizing the USDA Post Interview Processing System for extraction of AMPM Blaise databases. 6. Conducting the nutritional supplement questionnaire for every HANDLS participant. 7. Reviewing and editing the nutritional supplement questionnaire. 8. Coding all the nutritional supplement data obtained from the supplement questionnaire. 9. Maintaining the nutritional supplement database and conduct field research to obtain and verify ingredients for all supplements reported. 10. Conduct literature reviews of the nutritional literature to support research publications based on HANDLS study dietary and supplement data. 11. Assisting with quality control reviews of dietary intakes and data edits. V. Response: Any interested and capable small business shall submit its capabilities statement tailored to this ‘Sources Sought Notice'. The capabilities statement shall clearly define the interested small business' capabilities using an Adobe PDF or Microsoft Office document which limited to 15 pages total. Any interested and capable small business shall ensure that its response is accurate, complete, and sufficiently detailed to allow the Government to assess the small business' capabilities. The interested small business' capabilities statement shall include the interested small business' accurate and complete DUNS Number, Legal Business Name, the "Doing Business as Name", Physical Address, Point of Contact Information, applicable North American Industry Classification System Code, and the Type of Small Business. Responses shall be submitted ONLY to Mario.Gray@nih.hhs.gov by the closing date of this ‘Sources Sought Notice'. VI. Legal Considerations: The Government is under no obligation to acknowledge receipt of a response or provide feedback to a response to this ‘Sources Sought Notice". This notice does not obligate the Government to award a contract or order to a respondent to this notice or pay for the information provided by a respondent to this notice. A respondent whom provides proprietary, classified, confidential, or/and sensitive information, does so entirely at its own risk and without the Government being subject to liability. The Government reserves the right to use information provided by any respondent for any purpose the Government deems appropriate and lawful. The Government reserves the right to use information provided by any respondent for any later announcement, notice, synopsis, or/and solicitation.
- Web Link
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- Place of Performance
- Address: Baltimore, Maryland, 21224, United States
- Zip Code: 21224
- Zip Code: 21224
- Record
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