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B -- HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE DATA BANK FILE BUILDING SUPPORT SOL NLM 97-101/EAS DUE 011097 POC Eve Schaefer, Contracting Officer, 301/496-6546 Description of Acquisition or Award: THIS PROCUREMENT IS 100% SMALL BUSINESS SET-ASIDE. The National Library of Medicine has a requirement for file-building support for the Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB), an online factual scientific database. The work shall consist of creating new HSDB records, and updating and enhancing existing chemical records with current information extracted from a variety of scientific and technical sources, including government documents. The contractor shall provide staff with bachelor's degrees (minimum) in the toxicological, chemical, and environmental sciences to perform the file building tasks. The contractor also shall establish an in-house quality control group with the appropriate breadth of scientific expertise in toxicology, pharmacology, medicine, chemistry, and the environmental sciences to review data input from all HSDB file-building contractors. In addition, the contractor shall provide committee management support for the Scientific Review Panel, a group of 16 scientific consultants who conduct an in-depth scientific and technical evaluation of HSDB records at three meetings per year. The HSDB file is built, edited, updated, maintained, and reviewed entirely in an online mode in the TOXNET system. ALL RESPONSIBLE SOURCES MAY SUBMIT A PROPOSAL WHICH WILL BE CONSIDERED BY THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE. See Numbered Notes 1 and 26.(0317)

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