SPECIAL NOTICE
R -- Health Brain Network Supplement to Track Homeostatic Regulatory Domains in Youth in the General Community
- Notice Date
- 6/5/2020 1:44:00 PM
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 541511
— Custom Computer Programming Services
- Contracting Office
- NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH NIDA Bethesda MD 20892 USA
- ZIP Code
- 20892
- Solicitation Number
- NIMH-20-003938
- Response Due
- 6/19/2020 9:00:00 AM
- Archive Date
- 06/20/2020
- Point of Contact
- Kristina Jenkins, Phone: 3014027464
- E-Mail Address
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kristina.jenkins@nih.gov
(kristina.jenkins@nih.gov)
- Description
- THIS IS A PRE-SOLICITATION NOTICE OF INTENT TO AWARD ON A SOLE SOURCE BASIS. THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR QUOTES/PROPOSALS. The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) intends to negotiate on a sole source basis with the Child Mind Institute for software development & data tracking services. REGULATORY AUTHORITY The resultant contract will include all applicable provisions and clauses of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) in effect through the Federal Acquisition Circular (FAC) 2020-05, March 30, 2020. STATUTORY AUTHORITY This acquisition is conducted under the authority of FAR Part 13 � Simplified Acquisition Procedures. Contracts awarded using FAR Part 13 � Simplified Acquisition Procedures are exempt from the requirements of FAR Part 6-Competition Requirements. FAR Subpart 13.106-1 (b) Soliciting from a Soliciting from a single source provides that: For purchases not exceeding the simplified acquisition threshold, contracting officers may solicit from one source if the contracting officer determines that the circumstances of the contract action deem only one source reasonably available (e.g., urgency, exclusive licensing agreements, brand-name OR industrial mobilization). BACKGROUND, PURPOSE and OBJECTIVES OF REQUIREMENT The general purpose is to implement the concepts and procedures from studies in the Division of Intramural Research Programs (IRP) to translate the findings to youth mental health. The major goals of the IRP collaboration would be to advance the primary research goals of our research groups on mood disorders in order to identify links between mood disorders and their underlying dimensional manifestations with objective measures of motor activity and sleep, and mood reactivity and instability and broad outcomes including suicidal behavior, social and educational impairment and onset of emotional and behavior disorders. Data from multiple domains including symptoms, impairment, neuroimaging, reactivity, psychophysiology, motor activity and sleep, cognitive function, and genetics that were collected in the first wave will be used to identify profiles of risk and outcome. The specific goal of this proposed award is to follow-up 500 youth from the first wave of HBN based on their profiles of motor activity, sleep, mood instability and social sensitivity to intensively characterize these domains using mobile assessments over a one-year period, with frequent online tracking of mental health and behavior. We will assess a subsample of 200 of these youth at the greatest vs. average risk more intensively over time. This will serve as an extension of ongoing work in the IRP using online assessments and mobile technology that can facilitate our ability to build a much larger sample, enhance diversity, and test the replicability and generalizability of findings from our current research, At the same time, this effort will also comprise a pilot study that tests acceptability and uptake of follow up in order to build a larger effort with external funding for the Child Mind Institute (CMI) faculty and collaborators to follow up the full sample of youth. Data provided from this work can be added to the international collaborative effort on rhythms of motor activity, sleep and mood now being led by the IRP through the motor activity research consortium for health (mMARCH) and to the neuroimaging and cognitive data networks in youth in which several IRP investigators are currently involved.� Analyses and findings will be greatly facilitated by the growing NIMH IRP computational sophistication on analyses of these multi-level repeated measures data in several labs at the NIMH IRP. SPECIFIC REQURIEMENTS Independently and not as an agent of the Government, the Contractor shall furnish all the necessary services, qualified personnel, material, equipment, and facilities, not otherwise provided by the Government as needed to perform the�Statement of Work below: In collaboration with the NIMH and HBN study investigators, identify, contact, and consent the subsample of the HBN to be followed up to address research questions regarding mood spectrum disorders and their overlap with other characteristic of the Wave 1 sample of the HBN� Conduct/oversee online interviews with follow-up sample Administer the research device distribution and receipt to follow-up sample� Administer electronic diary completion and provide access to data Provide clinical oversight of interviews and response of subsample Build a series of new cognitive tasks that will be implemented to the Sensing to Understanding and Prediction Realized via an Experiment and Modeling Ecosystem (SUPRME) system developed by Per Sederberg at University of Virginia. �Provide data and collaborate on joint analysis of the results of the initial interview and ancillary measures for the follow up sample PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE: One (1) 12-month Base Period. CONTRACT TYPE: Firm-Fixed-Price CLOSING STATEMENT THIS NOTICE OF INTENT TO AWARD ON A SOLE-SOURCE BASIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR COMPETITIVE PROPOSALS. However, interested parties may identify their interest and capability to respond to this notice. � 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. All responsible sources may submit a capability statement, proposal, or quotation which shall be considered by the agency. 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. � 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. � All responses must be received by the closing date and time of this announcement and must reference the solicitation number, NIMH-20-003938. Responses must be submitted electronically to Kristina Jenkins, Contract Specialist, at Kristina.Jenkins@nih.gov. U.S. Mail and Fax responses will not be accepted. �
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