70 -- SPIROMETRY SOFTWARE LICENSE

Notice Date

September 4, 2001

Contracting Office

Department of Health and Human Services, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Morgantown -- NIOSH, 1095 Willowdale Road, Morgantown, WV, 26505

ZIP Code

26505

Description

NOTICE OF INTENT TO SOLE SOURCE -- The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Field Studies Branch (FSB) currently has 20 dry rolling seal spirometers that are used for spirometry testing on a variety of FSB projects, health hazard evaluations, research studies, etc. The NIOSH spirometers are highly modified for research purposes and are state-of-the-art systems which are not available from commercial vendors. The spirometer system includes a NIOSH engineered digital spirometer interface and a NIOSH/private industry created software package necessary to acquire and store data from the system. This software, originally written by NIOSH engineers in collaboration with various manufacturers in the spirometry industry, was written in the DOS operating system platform and has never been converted to a Windows based system. This DOS based platform has become increasingly difficult for NIOSH staff to maintain but continues to be used because of it's excellence for research applications. Occupational Marketing Inc. (OMI), Houston, TX has recently developed a state-of-the-art Windows based version of software that maintains all of the research functionality of the old DOS system currently being used by NIOSH. Because OMI is the only vendor known to have the required spirometry software, the government intends to award on a sole source basis for purchase of a master software license including future updates for unlimited use. This license would be granted for a period of ninety years from purchase date and includes software development for use with the existing NIOSH digital spirometer interface. If there are other organizations who believe they can provide a product equal to that stated above, they may respond within 7 days after publication of this notice. Responses shall be submitted to: Brenda L. Goodwin (MS-1019), Reference: #2001-Q-04140, DHHS, PHS, CDC, NIOSH, ALOSH, 1095 Willowdale Road, Morgantown, WV 26505. Information received would generally be used for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. This notice is issued for informational purposes only.

Web Link

Visit this URL for the latest information about this (http://www.eps.gov/spg/HHS/CDCP/MNIOSH/Reference-Number-2001-Q-0414 0/listing.html)

Record

Loren Data Corp. 20010906/SPMSC044.HTM (D-247 SN50W6T0)