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B -- SPECIAL STUDIES AND ANALYSIS SOL NLM 98-090/LTN DUE 083198 POC Liem T. Nguyen, Contract Specialist, 301-496-6546 E-MAIL: click here to contact the contract specialist via, liem_nguyen@nlm.nih.gov. The National Bioethics Advisory Commission (NBAC), intends to fund follow-on work to be performed by Dr. Andrew Siegel, 13 W. Mount Vernon Pl., Baltimore, MD 21201 for additional effort in providing the NBAC substantive and procedural analyses on NBAC reports on ethical and legal issues in international research, on research uses of human biological materials, and on research involving persons with mental disorders that may affect decision-making capacity. The NBAC is a presidential national commission which is administratively supported by NIH. The Commission was established in October 1995 by Executive Order, and is currently authorized until October 3, 1999. NBAC provides advice, consults with, and makes recommendations to the National Science and Technology Council, other appropriate government entities and the President. NBAC also disseminates its recommendation to the public. The Commission consists of non-Federal members, all of whom are appointed by the President. The Commission's staff conducts, analyses and develops reports and recommendations for deliberation and use by the Commission. The staff office includes researchers, administrative personnel, contractors, experts, and consultants. NBAC's current research agenda includes analyzing and developing recommendations on research involving human subjects with mental disorders that affect decision making capacity, and on issues in the storage and research utilization of human biological materials. Other issues of immediate interest include international bioethics issues, the current Federal oversight systems of research on human subjects, and an assessment and reevaluation of bioethical principles and guidelines set forth in the seminal Belmont Report of the earlier National Commission. NBAC is also charged with assessing ethical and legal issues arising from the use of genetic information, not limited to gene patenting. In accordance with its research plan, it will report on these subjects. Dr. Siegel has comprehensive analytical experience in social theory and law; ethics; jurisprudence; contemporary moral issues; law, medicine, ethics; and bioethics. He has been a legislative fellow to the Labor and Human Resources Committee under Senator Kennedy with assignments in human cloning, privacy issues, and allocation of health care resources. He was also a staff attorney for the Task Force on genetic Testing of the National Institutes of Health, Department of Energy Working Group on the Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues (ELSI) of the Human Genome Project. He has published on issues of moral, legal, and political philosophy. In addition, he has given lectures on bioethics and the Supreme Court, issues in international bioethics including law and mental health, constitutional interpretation, physician-assisted suicide, and concepts of responsibility in criminal law. The Committee requests the reports be prepared by November 30, 1998. It requires the legal and philosophical analyses within the time frames indicated to be able to produce its reports and recommendations to the President and the National Science and Technology Council in a timely fashion. Based upon his unique expertise and experience, Dr. Siegel is the only person who can complete these deliverables as indicated within the required time frame. This is a notice of intent and not a Request for Quotation (RFQ), nor is an RFQ available. ***** Posted 08/13/98 (W-SN236699). (0225)

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