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SAMDAILY.US - ISSUE OF AUGUST 05, 2020 SAM #6824
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D -- Joint Pathology Center (JPC) Digital Pathology Modernization

Notice Date

8/3/2020 7:10:33 AM
 

Notice Type

Sources Sought
 

NAICS

541519 — Other Computer Related Services
 

Contracting Office

DEFENSE HEALTH AGENCY FORT SAM HOUSTON TX 78234# USA
 

ZIP Code

78234#
 

Solicitation Number

HT0050-20-RFI-0084
 

Response Due

8/17/2020 2:00:00 PM
 

Archive Date

09/01/2020
 

Point of Contact

Charles Wang, Phone: 2102218442
 

E-Mail Address

peichang.wang.civ@mail.mil
(peichang.wang.civ@mail.mil)
 

Description

The Joint Pathology Center (JPC) is the premier pathology reference center for the federal government and part of the Defense Health Agency (DHA). As of 2011, the JPC tissue repository contains approximately 55 million glass slides, 31 million paraffin-embedded tissue blocks, and over 500,000 wet tissue samples that have been collected over the last 102 years - making it the largest collection of human pathology specimens in the word. The repository represents a priceless resource for clinicians, pathologists, and health care data analysts to better understand and diagnose rare diseases and cancers. In addition to maintaining the largest tissue repository in the world, the JPC provides subspecialty secondary consultations for facilities across the Department of Defense (DoD) and Veterans Affairs Administration (VA). The JPC�s consultation practice includes a unique veterinary pathology consultative service. Lastly, the JPC enables pathologist-driven research in support of DoD and other federal government priorities and provides graduate medical education rotations and other support to federal government residencies/fellowships. At the present time and in accordance with the National Defense Authorization Act of 2008, the JPC is pursuing a complete digital pathology modernization effort. This effort has several components, including scanning the majority of our tissue repository. The wealth of information housed in the JPC�s repository holds significant potential for personalized medicine, particularly for machine learning algorithms and molecular findings that help establish the diagnosis, prognosis and personalized therapies for patients.� The Defense Digital Service (DDS) and the JPC are seeking a vendor(s) with the capabilities of digitizing the JPC�s repository in order to preserve this invaluable source of medical data, enhance biomedical research for infectious diseases and cancer, and enable easier data sharing with researchers, diagnosticians, and educators to facilitate collaboration and medical advances.
 

Web Link

SAM.gov Permalink
(https://beta.sam.gov/opp/a56ca7774293487fbd4b0f5236ca61fc/view)
 

Place of Performance

Address: Washington, DC 20301, USA

Zip Code: 20301

Country: USA
 

Record

SN05743415-F 20200805/200803230148 (samdaily.us)
 

Source

SAM.gov Link to This Notice
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