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FBO DAILY ISSUE OF SEPTEMBER 25, 2002 FBO #0297
MODIFICATION

D -- Installation and Optimization of a new Integrated Web Visual Data Mining Environment on a new server and Laptop computer

Notice Date

9/23/2002
 

Notice Type

Modification
 

Contracting Office

Department of Health and Human Services, Food and Drug Administration, Division of Contracts and Procurement Management, Office of Facilities, Acquisitions, and Central Svcs 5600 Fishers Lane, HFA-511, Rockville, MD, 20857
 

ZIP Code

20857
 

Solicitation Number

Reference-Number-D78031
 

Response Due

9/27/2002
 

Point of Contact

Stephanie Hawk, Buyer, Phone 301-827-7886, Fax 301-594-2127,
 

E-Mail Address

hawks@cder.fda.gov
 

Small Business Set-Aside

Total Small Business
 

Description

This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items or services prepared in accordance with the format in FAR Subpart 12.6 as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation and a written solicitation will not be issued. This solicitation is issued as a Request for Quote (RFQ) No. D78031. These solicitation clauses and provisions are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 97-27. The Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Code for this acquisition is 7379 and the North American Classification System (NAICS) Code is 541519. The FDA intends to issue a purchase order on a sole source basis to Lincoln Technologies for the following service: Installation and Optimization of a New Integrated Web Visual Data Mining Environment (Web VDME) on a new server and laptop computer. The Contractor will be responsible for the installation, testing, and documentation of required web based data mining software infrastructure and tools on a new server and laptop computers. The Contractor will also help to complete the transition of the present data mining environment to the use of real-time CBAERS database. This includes: optimization of memory, disk, and processor usage of both the server and laptop computers to support efficient data extractions and transformations and execution of large and complex data mining analyses (over the complete and real-time CBAERS database), including multi-dimensional analyses involving drug interactions and/or syndromes, as well as analyses of gender effects, age effects, and outcome effects with the server. Will design and implement a production facility that will enhance the productivity and rapidly mass produce a complete and up-to-date library of data extraction and transformations and graphical safety summaries for all drugs and events in the database. This will be highly automated and will produce the graphics and search index files necessary to support the internal safety data mining web site. The Contractor will add the capability to mass-produce a library of graphic displays for all drugs and events by adding a new screen to the Web VDME. From this screen the Principal Investigator will be able to populate the archive of graphs that will be stored as BLOBS in Oracle as one row per image. Additional columns will contain the retrieval parameters including the version of the software, the date, the audit trail, etc. The following will also be included: A query screen will allow for partial matches; Addition of new types of users with the ability to access the generated graphs and leave comments; Drill down to narratives and ancillary data such as gender, age outcomes, source from the graphs in the server and from the laptop computers; Potential ability to save new costumed produced graphs; Library of graphic displays will include the display of the progression of signals over time and delta graphs by drug and event; Ability to produce new graphic displays to be added to a library of graphs with comments. Contractor will be available to provide timely ongoing technical support spanning issues relating to the underlying software, computational performance, data mining techniques, and graphical design, production, and optimization. Will provide FDA with a no-cost internal-use license to enhanced contractor-developed data mining software related to these services. Shall make use of the special remote access capabilities of the new server to carry out remote software installation, configuration, support and troubleshooting. Period Of Performance: Five months from date of award. The following FAR Clauses shall apply to this solicitation: 52.212-1 Instructions to Offerors-Commercial; 52.212-4 Contract Terms and Conditions-Commercial Items; and 52.232-33 Electronic Funds Transfers. All responsible sources that can provide and meet the above requirements shall submit written quotations by the due date referenced above. The award is being issued on a sole source basis because Lincoln Technologies, Inc. staff has been key participants in the design and implementation of the data mining software currently being used by the Office of Biostatistics. They also have hands-on experience in working with the AERS data in several different formats and have consulted extensively with OB in the design of graphical techniques for summarizing safety data mining output. They have collaborated with the Office of Biostatistics in the initial conceptualization and prototyping of the application of Bayesian data mining to the identification of safety signals in the SRS and AERS post-marketing surveillance databases. FAR provisions can be found on the following website: http://www/arnet.gov.
 

Place of Performance

Address: FDA/CDER/OPaSS/OB/QMRS, 5600 Fishers Lane, Room 15B-45, Rockville, Maryland

Zip Code: 20857

Country: USA
 

Record

SN00173622-W 20020925/020924065133 (fbodaily.com)
 

Source

FedBizOpps.gov Link to This Notice
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