SOLICITATION NOTICE
B -- Studies of Radiation and Cancer Risk
- Notice Date
- 10/30/2002
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, Research Contracts Br., 6120 Executive Blvd. EPS Suite 600, Rockville, MD, 20852
- ZIP Code
- 20852
- Solicitation Number
- N02-CP-31013
- Response Due
- 12/30/2002
- Point of Contact
- Kim Hall, Contract Specialist, Phone (301) 435-3781, Fax (301) 480-0241, - Sharon Miller, Contracting Officer, Phone (301) 435-3783, Fax (301) 480-0241,
- E-Mail Address
-
kh175r@nih.gov, sm103r@nih.gov
- Description
- THIS IS A ELECTRONIC RFP ANNOUNCEMENT, POTENTIAL OFFERORS WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR DOWNLOADING THEIR OWN COPY OF THE SOLICITATION AND AMENDMENTS. The Radiation Epidemiology Branch (REB) of the National Cancer Institute is re-competing a contract for support services for etiologic cohort and case control studies, NO2-CP-81121, currently held by Westat, Inc., Rockville, MD. The Government may make multiple awards for the recompetition. A five-year, level-of-effort contract(s) will be awarded. The total level of effort for this work is 165,000 hours for a five-year period. It is anticipated that one contractor will provide 123,750 hours and another contractor will provide 41,250 hours. Offerors may submit a proposal for either the 123,750 hours or the 41,250 hours, or both. A separate technical and business proposal must be submitted for each portion of worked proposed on. The complexity and diversity of tasks to be performed under each contract is expected to be the same. The contract(s) will establish a mechanism to provide all the services required to conduct a wide variety of domestic and international (case-control, cohort, cross-sectional, and pilot) studies. The scientific design and oversight of the activities are the responsibility of the REB professional staff. The major activities of the contractor(s) include: 1) obtain necessary information to determine effective study resources (e.g., capabilities of collaborating institutions, numbers of eligible study subjects, exposure information, etc.) and prepare, pretest, evaluate and produce data collection forms and specifications manuals, including computer-assisted questionnaires; 2) assist in the coordination of multi-center studies and facilitate cooperation between NCI and its collaborators; 3) prepare training programs and materials for abstractors, interviewers and other study personnel and procedure manuals; 4) arrange for the collection, handling, transport, storage and analysis of biologic and environmental samples; 5) validate cancer incidence and cause of death by obtaining medical records and death certificates, and have them coded by appropriate nosologists, pathologists or clinicians; 6 ) trace study subjects to locate them for interview, environmental measurements, or biologic specimen collection, to determine their vital status, to evaluate radiation exposure, to assess genetic susceptibility, or to obtain other information necessary for the study; 7) hire, train and supervise abstractors, interviewers, telephone screeners, coders, phlebotomists and others who will be involved with acquiring and assembling data; abstract, scan, photocopy or obtain computer records (clinical or office medical records, radiotherapy records, hospital charts, pathology reports, death certificates etc.); 8) interview subjects or surrogates using mail, telephone, computer-assisted or personal interviews; 9) arrange for laboratory evaluation of study subjects and environmental measurements at the subject's convenience; 10) arrange for collection and delivery of biologic or environmental samples to laboratories or individuals for storage and/or analysis; 11) enter coded information into suitable computers; 12) design and maintain computer databases and associated reporting software and prepare edit programs, edit data, and correct computer files where necessary; prepare analytical data files as requested by REB staff; 13) document each step of a study and maintain, in an orderly arrangement, all relevant material so that any aspect of the study may be reviewed and evaluated by the NCI staff at any point in time; 15) develop subcontracts for conducting field studies outside the U.S., for specialized field procedures in the U.S., for radiation measurements, and for laboratory analyses of biologic samples. The name of the key personnel and their experience in these tasks must be provided with the technical proposal. IT IS THE OFFERORS RESPONSIBILITY TO MONITOR THE ABOVE INTERNET SITE FOR ANY CHANGE IN THE RELEASE OF THE SOLICITATION AND ANY AMENDMENTS. It is anticipated that the Request for Proposal (RFP) package will be available approximately 15 days after publication of this notice with proposals due approximately 30 - 45 calendar days following the actual date of issuance of the RFP. Award(s)s are anticipated by June 2003. The applicable NAICS code is 541710 with a size standard of 500. All responsible sources may submit a proposal that shall be considered by the NCI.. No collect calls will be accepted. NOTE: THIS NOTICE WAS NOT POSTED TO FEDBIZOPPS.GOV ON THE DATE INDICATED IN THE NOTICE ITSELF (30-OCT-2002). IT ACTUALLY FIRST APPEARED ON THE FEDBIZOPPS SYSTEM ON 19-JUN-2003. PLEASE CONTACT fbo.support@gsa.gov REGARDING THIS ISSUE.
- Web Link
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Link to FedBizOpps document.
(http://www.eps.gov/spg/HHS/NIH/RCB/N02-CP-31013/listing.html)
- Record
- SN00352486-F 20030621/030620012650 (fbodaily.com)
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