SOURCES SOUGHT
R -- National Institute of Drug Abuse Intramural Research Program Recruitment Services
- Notice Date
- 1/6/2006
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541990
— All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Drug Abuse, IRP, 9000 Rockville Pike Room 1B59, Bethesda, MD, 20892
- ZIP Code
- 20892
- Solicitation Number
- Reference-Number-NOI60035
- Response Due
- 1/19/2006
- Description
- The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) is interested in identifying whether there any interested Small Business Concerns with the requisite capabilities to provide recruitment services to the Intramural Research Program (IRP) of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA.) The IRP NIDA is located on the campus of Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center (JHBMC) in Baltimore, Maryland. Using volunteer human participants, the IRP clinical program conducts multidisciplinary research involving residential and nonresidential clinical studies that interrelate with pre-clinical laboratory investigations. In general, these studies evaluate the nature of drug abuse and addiction by assessing the abuse potential of drugs, investigating their underlying mechanisms and assessing treatment modalities for substance use disorders. The majority of IRP research participants are adults between the ages of 18 and 50. However, an increasing number of adolescent studies are being added to the clinical program. Additional safeguards will be required when participating minors are recruited. The number and type of participants to be recruited is dependent upon the research protocol. Although the IRP clinical protocols often require, by their very nature (i.e. studies employing addictive or potentially addictive drugs), that the research participant population be active drug abusers or users, clients of drug abuse treatment programs, or persons with a documented history of drug addiction or use, there are protocols conducted which require non-drug abusers or users. For example, cigarette smokers and non-drug using controls would fill this category. All personnel working with human subjects are required to undergo necessary training and orientation regarding federal regulations, NIH regulations, and specific NIDA IRP clinical policies and procedures. The NIDA IRP Clinical Research Program?s research activities are guided by regulations from various federal government agencies to include, but not be limited to, FDA, NIH, and OHSR. All personnel working for the NIDA IRP clinical program are required to undergo training in various areas including but not limited to confidentiality, ethics of clinical research, Human Research Privacy Act. The NIDA IRP maintains an electronic medical record system know as the Clinical Data Warehouse (CDW). The Contractor will be granted access to this system, and will be expected to enter and compile participant documentation as required. The objectives of this contract are to provide the IRP with: 1. marketing, advertisement and liaison services with various communities to recruit participants for active residential and non-residential studies. 2. telephone and in-person screening for eligibility into research protocols to include, but not limited to medical, psychological and drug use history. 3. back-up technical support for research protocols, as dictated by the needs of the clinical program. 4. greeting, scheduling, and remuneration for study participants 5. maintenance of various clinical and administrative databases for participant recruitment. 6. generation of reports as needed for particular government usage 7. re-contact, follow up and aftercare when appropriate. To be deemed capable to provide the above services, a Small Business Concern must submit a written capability statement (not to exceed 15 pages) that clearly demonstrates the ability to: provide multi-media marketing and advertising services, establish and maintain connections with community resources, and liaison with various and diverse communications and media groups. The Contractor shall also be skilled in telephone and in-person screening of individuals to determine their acceptability as participants in clinical protocols. In-person screening shall be performed in coordination with the NIDA medical screening staff (Physicians Assistants, Nurse Practitioners, Physicians and other clinical staff). AT THIS TIME, THE NIDA SS/SA IS ONLY REQUESTING CAPABILITY STATEMENTS FROM SMALL BUSINESSES. THIS ANNOUNCEMENT IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS. The applicable North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this requirement is 541990. Therefore, the small business size standard for this announcement is $6.5 million. See http://www.sba.gov/size/ for information on what is a small business and part 121.106 of the SBA's Small Business Size Regulations on how the SBA calculates number of employees. Small Businesses that meet the applicable size standard and believe that they have the capabilities described above are encouraged to submit a written Capability Statement to attention of Susan A. Nsangou, Contracting Officer, at the address provided by 3:00 PM Local Time on January 19, 2006. The Capability Statement should be limited to no more than 15 pages and it should address each of the competencies stated above. If responses indicate a reasonable expectation of obtaining competitive offers from two or more responsible and capable small business concerns, the anticipated subsequent Request for Proposals will be set-aside or partially set-aside for small businesses.
- Place of Performance
- Address: Baltimore, Maryland
- Record
- SN00962274-W 20060108/060106211829 (fbodaily.com)
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