SOLICITATION NOTICE
D -- Grant Funding Analysis and Reviewer Finder Services and Support
- Notice Date
- 12/31/2015
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 541511
— Custom Computer Programming Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Rockledge Dr. Bethesda, MD, Office of Acquisitions, 6701 Rockledge Dr RKL2/6100 MSC 7902, Bethesda, Maryland, 20892-7902
- ZIP Code
- 20892-7902
- Solicitation Number
- HHS-NIH-NHLBI-CSB-HO-2016-048-CDB
- Archive Date
- 1/23/2016
- Point of Contact
- Chris Bocus, Phone: 3014027888
- E-Mail Address
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chris.bocus@nih.gov
(chris.bocus@nih.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- INTRODUCTION: THIS IS A PRE-SOLICITATION NON-COMPETITIVE (NOTICE OF INTENT) SYNOPSIS TO AWARD A PURCHASE ORDER WITHOUT PROVIDING FOR FULL OR OPEN COMPETITION (INCLUDING BRAND-NAME). The National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), Office of Acquisitions (OA), intends to negotiate and award a purchase order on a sole source noncompetitive basis to UberResearch Inc., 214 Captains Watch, Lexington, SC, 29072-6677, to provide grant funding analysis along with implementation and support services for the Reviewer Finder for the Office of Scientific Review (OSR) at NHLBI. BACKGROUND: The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) provides global leadership for a research, training, and education program to promote the prevention and treatment of heart, lung, and blood diseases and enhance the health of all individuals so that they can live longer and more fulfilling lives. The NHLBI stimulates basic discoveries about the causes of disease, enables the translation of basic discoveries into clinical practice, fosters training and mentoring of emerging scientists and physicians, and communicates research advances to the public. It creates and supports a robust, collaborative research infrastructure in partnership with private and public organizations, including academic institutions, industry, and other government agencies. The Institute collaborates with patients, families, health care professionals, scientists, professional societies, patient advocacy groups, community organizations, and the media to promote the application of research results and leverage resources to address public health needs. The NHLBI also collaborates with international organizations to help reduce the burden of heart, lung, and blood diseases worldwide. The NHLBI Division of Extramural Research Activities (DERA) provides leadership and advice to the Director, NHLBI, on developing, implementing, and coordinating extramural research contract, grant, and training program policies. The Division also develops, implements, and coordinates cross-cutting, multi-disciplinary activities in the mission areas of the NHLBI. The Division provides initial scientific merit review of research grants and contracts for the Institute, provides the Institute's program divisions with grant and contract management, provides coordination and management of the Institute's public advisory committees, and provides conference services in support of the Institute. DERA coordinates the Institute's research grant and training programs with the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Advisory Council. The Division also develops and provides extramural staff training and enhances communication across the Institute regarding standardized approaches, policies, methods, and procedures. DERA represents the Institute on overall NIH extramural and collaborative program policy committees and coordinates such policies within the Institute. DERA supplies services to other Institutes and Centers fulfilling the requirement of service center agreements and manages the NHLBI Scientific Review and Evaluation Awards. The Scientific Review Office (SRO) requires the modernization of the existing reviewer finder tool at NHLBI called Reviewer Finder and enhancement to further develop NHLBI's portfolio analysis capabilities. PROCUREMENT: The contractor shall perform the following tasks: • Project Management • Implementation of Reviewer Finder Application Enhancements • Enhancement of the Reviewer Finder Infrastructure (as required for any enhancements to the existing infrastructure) • Reviewer Finder Data Preparation • Continued Reviewer Finder Integration with eRA • Ongoing Reviewer Finder Technical Support for OSR • Cross sharing of Reviewer Finder API and data information • User Training • Bring ReviewerFinder fully into the NHLBI production cloud environment ANTICIPATED PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE: 3 months JUSTIFICATION: The determination by the Government to award a contract without providing for full and open competition is based upon the market research conducted as prescribed in FAR Part 10-Market Research. Only one source is available to meet the government requirements. UberResearch Inc. is the only vendor with the tools that allow the unique ability to access NIH grant data, global grant award date, research expertise profiles, global clinical trials, full text journal articles, global patient data, global research outputs, and global article level metrics. The ability to compare and match grants data with reviewer expertise data. They also have the ability to produce a list of appropriate reviewer candidates using the data bases and comparisons stated above. The company has unique knowledge and experience in peer review and scientific portfolio analysis on an international level. Additionally, as a part of the Nature Publishing Group, they are uniquely placed to provide access to a broad range of top class peer reviewed journals and citations that are unavailable from competitors. REGULATORY AUTHORITY: This acquisition is conducted under the authority of the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) Subpart 13.106-1(b) Soliciting from a single source, only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Industry Classification (NAICS) Code is 541511, Custom Computer Programming Services and the Small Business Size Standard is $27,500,000. This acquisition is conducted in accordance with the procedures as prescribed in FAR Part 13-Simplified Acquisition Procedures and FAR Subpart 12.6. The solicitation document, the incorporated provisions and clauses are those in the Federal Acquisition Circular 2005-85, effective December 4, 2015. This synopsis is not a request for competitive proposals. However, interested parties may identify their interest and capability to respond to this notice. Responses to this notice shall contain sufficient information to establish the interested parties' bona-fide capabilities for fulfilling the requirement and include: unit price, list price, shipping and handling costs, the delivery period after contract award, the prompt payment discount terms, the F.O.B. Point (Destination or Origin), the Dun & Bradstreet Number (DUNS), the Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN), and the certification of business size. All offerors must have an active registration in the System for Award Management (SAM) www.sam.gov." A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed contract based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. The information received will normally be considered solely for the purposes of determining whether to proceed on a non-competitive basis or to conduct a competitive procurement. All responses must be received by January 8, 2015 at 1:30 p.m. EST. Responses must reference synopsis number HHS-NIH-NHLBI-CSB-HO-2016-048-CDB, may be submitted to the National, Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Office of Acquisition, COAC Services Branch, 6701 Rockledge Drive, Rm 6207, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-7902, Attention: Chris Bocus. Response may be submitted electronically to chris.bocus@ nih.gov. Faxes will not be accepted. Responses will only be accepted if dated and signed by an authorized company representative. "All responsible sources may submit a bid, proposal, or quotation which shall be considered by the agency."
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- Place of Performance
- Address: Bethesda, Maryland, 20892, United States
- Zip Code: 20892
- Zip Code: 20892
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