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99 -- BOOTH SPACE FOR CANCER INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE EXHIBIT SOL NCI-RFQ-90190-NV DUE 092399 POC Debbie Moore, Purchasing Agent (301) 402-4509, Todd Cole, Contracting Officer (301) 402-4509 The National Cancer Institute (NCI), Office of Informatics (OI) plans on procuring booth space from the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) during the annual AMIA meeting to be held in Washington, D.C. during November 1999. The Office of Informatics mission is to build a Clinical Trial Enterprise for the National Cancer Institute. This project is comprised of several information management systems. The most critical component is the Cancer Information Infrastructure (CII). The CII will promote the sharing of trial data and will give researchers and clinicians an easy and fully compatible way of exchanging that information. By building this structure on the common data elements of each cancer area, it will facilitate the sharing of clinical trial/research data among researchers and thereby expand the knowledge base. NCI requires the booth space (Approximately 40 booths) to exhibit the clinical trial enterprise system and to obtain critical feedback. The registration for such booths is due by late September. The focus of the AMIA conference is to bring IT solutions to healthcare. Clinicians, physicians, and informatics experts will be the primary attendees at the AMIA conference. This is one of the largest most recognized conferences on medical informatics in the world. The conference also falls within a perfect time frame to obtain feedback on the enterprise system. Consequently, the AMIA provides the best means of obtaining face-to-face feedback on this structure in a short time frame since so many national and international clinicians and researchers will be available. The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) is the only source known to the NCI Researcher that has such a large conference with clinicians, physicians, and informatics experts attending and available to try out the system. This is not a request for competitive quotation. However, if any interested party believes it can meet the above requirement, it may submit a statement of capabilities. The statement of capabilities and any other information furnished must be in writing and must contain material in sufficient detail to allow NCI to determine if the party is providing a similar conference with similar subject matter, available expert participants, schedule, and size. Capability statements must be received in the contracting office by 2:00 p.m. EST, on September 23, 1999. If you have any questions, please contact Debbie Moore, Purchasing Agent on (301) 402-4509. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed requirement based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information received will be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. Posted 09/07/99 (W-SN376809). (0250)

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