SOLICITATION NOTICE
B -- B-Adjusting Cohort-Specific estimates of Initiation & Cessation
- Notice Date
- 8/26/2003
- 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
- RFQ-NCI-082603-NQ
- Response Due
- 9/16/2003
- Archive Date
- 10/1/2003
- Point of Contact
- Cynthia Brown, Purchasing Agent, Phone (301) 496-8608, Fax (301) 402-4513, - Caren Rasmussen, Lead Contract Specialist, Phone (301) 402-4509, Fax (301) 402-4513,
- E-Mail Address
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cb106x@nih.gov, cr214i@nih.gov
- Description
- The National Cancer Institute, Division of Cancer Control and Populations Sciences (DCCPS), Statistical Research and Applications Branch (SRAB), intends on entering into a sole source contract with the University of California at San Diego, 1545 Hotel Circle South, Suite 310, San Diego, CA 92108 to continue support of the consortium of simulation modeling groups, which began the important task of building simulation models to study the impact of cancer control interventions on population and future trends as well as optimal cancer controls strategies in September of 2000. The Cancer Intervention and Surveillance Modeling Network (CISNET)is a diverse group involving members from over a dozen different organizations at multiple sites around the world. The CISNET consortium includes five grantees focusing on medeling for lung cancer. An advantage of having a consortium of modelers is the ability to employ a comparative modeling approach. While each modeler has areas of an individual focus, common "base" questions have developed that allow for comparisons across models. The motivation is that sometimes widely different results from models are often difficult to resolve, and this provides a chance to reach a common consensus on important questions, and to better understand differences between models. Sets of common population inputs are used across all models (e.g., dissemination patterns of screening and treatment, mortality from non-cancer causes), and a common set of intermediate and final outputs are developed to help understand differences and similarities across models. While cigarette smoking is generally assumed to have had a substantial impact on lung cancer, there are certain aspects of modeling this impact which are still a major challenge, e.g., gaining a better understanding of the process of carcinogenesis for those who have quite smoking, understanding the role of changing tobacco products on population trends, and understanding trends in lung cancer among nonsmokers. The NCI has determined that, in order for these concerns to be properly addressed, it is cruicial to first obtain high-quality estimates of smoking initiation and cessation rates for the various gender and birth cohorts that comprise the US population over the period of interest. The National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) is a national-level survey, administered yearly, which asked respondents about their cigarette smoking habits since 1968. A previous analysis by Burns et al.demonstrated that multiple NHIS survey data sets, spanning the period 1968-1991, could be combined in order to produce gender-specific estimates of smoking initiation and cessation rates for "synthetic" 5-year birth cohorts. The goal of the NCI is to update the Burn's analysis to include more recent years of the NHIS survey data (1992-2000). The University of California at San Diego is the only source known to the government that can provide the ncessary personnel, expertise to perform the above required services/data. However, if any interested party believes it can provide the required services/information, it may submit a statement of capabilities. The statement of capabilities must contain material in sufficient detail to allow NCI to determine if the party can perform the requirement. Capability statements must be received in the contracting office by 1:30 PM EDT on September 16, 2003. This acquisition will be make pursuant to the authortiy in FAR 13 to use simplified acquisition procedures. The NAICS Code is 541690.
- Record
- SN00412496-W 20030828/030827074304 (fbodaily.com)
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