SPECIAL NOTICE
A -- Military Operational Medicine (MOM) - Improving Protection through Metrics for Exposure to Blast, and Enhancing Cognitive Health, Performance and Psychological Health
- Notice Date
- 3/31/2020 3:59:01 AM
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 541715
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)
- Contracting Office
- W4PZ USA MED RSCH ACQUIS ACT FORT DETRICK MD 21702-5014 USA
- ZIP Code
- 21702-5014
- Solicitation Number
- MTEC-20-06-MOM
- Response Due
- 4/22/2020 9:00:00 AM
- Archive Date
- 05/07/2020
- Point of Contact
- Randall Fernanders, Phone: 8437603378
- E-Mail Address
-
randall.fernanders@ati.org
(randall.fernanders@ati.org)
- Description
- The Medical Technology Enterprise Consortium (MTEC) is excited to post this announcement for a Request for Project Proposals (RPP) focused on the development of the following 2 prototypes in support of MTEC�s Military Operational Medicine technology focus area: FOCUS AREA #1 (Whole Body Blast): Development of survivability criteria and vital organ injury metrics for the whole body when exposed to extreme blast exposures (e.g., IEDs). � FOCUS AREA #2 (Cognitive / Brain Health & Performance): Development and validation of personalized training or materiel (pharmacological/technological) approaches to build and enhance cognitive/brain health, performance and psychological health. PROGRAM BACKGROUND: Joint Program Committee (JPC)-5/MOMRP is one of six major Defense Health Program (DHP) core research program areas within the DHP medical Research Development Test & Evaluation (RDT&E). JPC-5 is a committee of DoD and non-DoD medical and military technical experts in military operational medicine-related program areas. The mission of JPC-5/MOMRP is to develop effective biomedical countermeasures against operational stressors and to prevent physical and psychological injuries during training and operations in order to maximize the health, readiness, and performance of our Service members and their Families. SOLUTION REQUIREMENTS: The MOMRP has identified two focus areas for funding under this RPP. To meet the intent of this RPP, each proposal MUST specifically address only ONE of the two Focus Areas described below. Offerors are not limited to a single proposal submission. Projects not aligned to at least one of these Focus Areas will not be considered for funding. It is expected that MTEC will make a total of 2 awards - a single award for each focus area. FOCUS AREA #1 (Whole Body Blast): Development of survivability criteria and vital organ injury metrics for the whole body when exposed to extreme blast exposures. BACKGROUND: Personal protection equipment (PPE) for the Warfighter has been designed to primarily protect against injuries from projectiles, shrapnel, debris and blunt object impact in training and combat operational environments. At present, there are no appropriate guidelines and test methodologies to evaluate the protective performance of PPE, such as body armor and bomb suits, against primary blast. Therefore, this project aims to develop survivability criteria and vital organ injury metrics relevant to personnel exposed to potentially lethal primary blast, such as that resulting from improvised explosive devices (IEDs). SCOPE OF WORK: During the PoP, the Awardee shall establish medically-based criteria (i.e., blast injury risk curves) for evaluation of the protective efficacy of PPE (i.e., bomb suits and body armor) for Warfighters. The Awardee shall address the following tasks: Establish metrics to assess the effectiveness of PPE against primary blast using biological surrogate models. Develop survivability dose-response relationships and vital organ blast injury criteria for primary blast exposure. Utilize different animal experimental models (i.e., differently scaled species) in conjunction with surrogate models to define blast-induced injuries and scaling factors for blast-induced vital organ injury (e.g., brain and lung) that can be readily translated to humans. Define biomechanical parameters associated with established injury levels for individual vital organs and cognitive functional outcomes. END GOAL: Provide whole body blast injury criteria to evaluate the next generation bomb suit and body armor blast personal protection equipment.� FOCUS AREA #2 (Cognitive/Brain Health & Performance): Development and validation of personalized training and/or materiel (pharmacological/technological) approaches to build and enhance cognitive/brain health, performance and psychological health. BACKGROUND: Multi-domain operations will involve significant demands on Warfighter cognitive agility and resistance to a multitude of stressors. There is a lack of rigorously tested cognitive training and enhancing tools and a dearth of data demonstrating effectiveness of such tools on operationally relevant tasks, psychological health outcomes, and brain health. There is also a lack of prospective longitudinal data to understand appropriate training protocols and requirements (e.g., training dosing, duration). SCOPE OF WORK: During the PoP, the Awardee shall: Develop or adapt cognition-promoting training or materiel solutions suitable for military application and training pipelines (e.g., feasible, scalable, efficient, low-cost). Demonstrate efficacy of training or materiel to positively impact cognitive performance (as measured by operationally relevant tasks including, but not limited to, perception, attention and memory) and psychological health outcomes in healthy as well as injured Warfighters. Elucidate active components of the cognitive training or materiel and relative contribution to outcomes in order to streamline and optimize military-relevant training. END GOAL: Deliver an efficient and effective method for personalized training to build and enhance cognitive/brain health, performance and psychological health. See the attachment for the details of this RPP. ACQUISITION APPROACH: Full proposals are due no later than April 8, 2020 at 12:00pm Eastern Time. The RPP will be posted to the MTEC website (mtec-sc.org) and a notice will be posted on www.beta.SAM.gov to notify interested parties. MTEC membership is required for the submission of a full proposal in response to this MTEC RPP. Offerors submitting Full Proposals as the prime contractor must be MTEC members of good standing by April 3, 2020.� To join MTEC, please visit http://mtec-sc.org/how-to-join/ A Proposers Conference via webinar will be held for interested parties to have their questions answered by the USG after the RPP is posted.� MTEC Members will be notified when the Proposers Conference is scheduled. For more information about the RPP, please visit the MTEC website (a link is included in the attachment incorporated into this posting).
- Web Link
-
SAM.gov Permalink
(https://beta.sam.gov/opp/668039af9d2746b09889e0d9b0e1f175/view)
- Place of Performance
- Address: Frederick, MD 21702, USA
- Zip Code: 21702
- Country: USA
- Zip Code: 21702
- Record
- SN05605379-F 20200402/200331230145 (samdaily.us)
- Source
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