SOLICITATION NOTICE
A -- Development of Eating Behaviors in Early Childhood "SPROUTS"
- Notice Date
- 4/21/2017
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 541712
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Contracts Management Branch, 6710B Rockledge Dr., Suite 1124, MSC7000, Bethesda, Maryland, 20892-7510, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20892-7510
- Solicitation Number
- NIH-NICHD-DIPHR-2018-3
- Archive Date
- 5/23/2017
- Point of Contact
- Deborah Brock, Phone: 301.435.6961, Alice M. Pag�n, Phone: 301-435-6959
- E-Mail Address
-
deborah.brock@nih.gov, alice.pagan@nih.gov
(deborah.brock@nih.gov, alice.pagan@nih.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- THIS IS A NOTICE OF INTENT, NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL. A SOLICITATION DOCUMENT WILL NOT BE ISSUED AND PROPOSALS WILL NOT BE REQUESTED. The Division of Intramural Population Health Research, Health Behavior Branch, of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) National Institutes of Health, intends to negotiate a new contract entitled, “Development of eating behaviors in early childhood” (SPROUTS), on a sole source basis to the University of North Carolina (UNC), under the authority of 41 U S C 253(c)(1), FAR 6 302-1 (a)(2) and HHSAR 306.302-1. The proposed new initiative will collect follow-up data on participants in the Pregnancy Eating Attributes Study (PEAS). The participants to be followed include a cohort of 458 women recruited during early pregnancy and their offspring; the follow-up period is from child age 2 to 5 years. The aims of the follow-up study are to investigate the impact of variables assessed in the PEAS study in maternal-child dyads during pregnancy and up to 1 year postpartum (including maternal food reward sensitivity and behavioral control, prenatal and postpartum diet, gestational weight gain, postpartum weight change, and infant feeding practices and eating behaviors) on the development of child neurobehavioral factors, eating behaviors, and growth from 2-5 years of age. Under the ongoing contract, NICHD obtains longitudinal data on a cohort of women from the first trimester of pregnancy through one-year postpartum including anthropometric data, clinical data, biospecimens, dietary intake, food reward sensitivity, behavioral control, and other diet and health related measures. Additionally, measures of infant feeding practices, eating behaviors, and growth are obtained through one-year postpartum. The current contractor, University of North Carolina (UNC), furnishes all the necessary services, qualified personnel, materials, equipment, and facilities needed to implement, maintain, coordinate, and manage recruitment and assessment of participants from early pregnancy through one year postpartum. Therefore, awarding the new contract to another contractor would create duplication of the infrastructure, effort for participant recruitment and assessment of all the measures obtained during pregnancy and postpartum in the current study. Extensive resources have been used to prepare the research site for recruitment and study activities, to conduct training for all staff on current data systems and study procedures, and to recruit and assess study participants on the numerous study measures at multiple time points across pregnancy and postpartum. Almost all the work would need to be duplicated if the follow-up assessment data were obtained elsewhere. This would result in unacceptable delays and substantially increased costs to the government. Accordingly, this additional effort can only be provided by UNC because has the existing infrastructure and data required to perform the proposed work. This is not a request for proposals. However, if any responsible source believes it can perform the above requirement, it may submit a capability statement electronically for consideration by the NICHD to Deborah Brock, Contract Specialist, at Deborah.Brock@nih.gov and Alice Pagán Pereira, Contracting Officer, at Alice.Pagan@ nih.gov. Information regarding respondents': (a) staff expertise, including their availability, experience, and formal and other training; (b) current in-house capability and capacity to perform the work; (c) prior completed projects of similar nature; (d) corporate experience and management capability; and (e) examples of prior completed Government contracts, references, and other related information should be provided if you submit a capability statement. Your capability statement should be no more than 15 pages in length, excluding resumes. All responses must be received in electronically no later than May 8, 2017 and must contain material in sufficient detail to allow the NICHD to determine if the organization can perform this requirement. The capability statement will be considered solely for the purposes of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. A determination by the government not to compete this proposed requirement based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the government.
- Web Link
-
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(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/HHS/NIH/NICHD/NIH-NICHD-DIPHR-2018-3/listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Address: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 27599, United States
- Zip Code: 27599
- Zip Code: 27599
- Record
- SN04480996-W 20170423/170421234357-499f76dd6ad803830439cae3d017eec1 (fbodaily.com)
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