SOLICITATION NOTICE
B -- Professional Services for Clinical Psychologist
- Notice Date
- 3/12/2012
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- 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, Station Support/Simplified Acquisitions, 31 Center Drive, Room 1B59, Bethesda, Maryland, 20892
- ZIP Code
- 20892
- Solicitation Number
- 2427355
- Archive Date
- 4/4/2012
- Point of Contact
- Jasmine D Snoddy, Phone: 301 594 1571
- E-Mail Address
-
snoddyj@mail.nih.gov
(snoddyj@mail.nih.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- This is a notice of intent, not a request for a proposal. A solicitation document will not be issued and proposals will not be requested. National Institute on Drug Abuse, Office of Acquisitions-Neuroscience, Station Support/Simplified Acquisition, on behalf of the National Institute of Mental Health-Clinical Brain Disorders Branch (CBDB), intends to negotiate and award a purchase order on a noncompetitive basis to Dr. Ann Reifman, 3000 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 2008, to perform services as a clinical psychologist and as an expert in the field treatment of patients with schizophrenia. Dr. Reifman will be primarily involved in the CBDB’s large Sibling Study research project, which investigates schizophrenia and genetics. Dr. Reifman will be responsible for determining whether an individual meetsNIMH clinical diagnostic criteria in to be included in the research study (NIMH 95-M-0150) and to come to NIMH to participate in the study. Dr. Reifman will interview patients with severe mental illness, parents and siblings of these individuals and healthy control subjects to determine accurate clinical diagnoses. Dr. Reifman will work to establish an interview process which increases the ability of subjects suffering with schizophrenia, many of whom suffer from psychosis and paranoia, to answer questions about their troubled lives and mental disorder. Dr. Reifman will help establish inter-rater reliability among those in NIMH Branch who are performing diagnostic assessments. Dr. Reifman will monitor NIMH research efforts performed at other institutes outside of NIMH who are conducting studies of complex mental disorders like schizophrenia. The period of performance will be one (1) base year and two (2) option years. Dr. Reifman comes to CBDB qualified in the field of treating patients with schizophrenia. Dr. Reifman is familiar with Protocol NIMH-95-M-0150. Since 1970 Dr. Reifman was a Social Science Analyst at the Center for Studies of Schizophrenia and later at the Neuropsychiatry Branch with NIMH. Dr. Reifman coordinated a Clinical Psychology Internship which focused on the treatment of people with severe mental illness. The acquisition is being conducted under simplified acquisition using FAR Part 12 procedures and is exempt from the requirements of FAR Part 6, Competition Requirement. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals. Interested parties may identify their interest and capabilities in response to this synopsis. The determination by the Government not to compete the proposed contract based upon responses to this notice is solely with the discretion of the Government. Comments to this announcement, referencing synopsis number 2427355 may be submitted to the NIDA, Station Support/Simplified Acquisition Branch, 31 Center Drive, Bldg. 31, Room 1B59, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-2080 and Attention: Jasmine Snoddy, Contract Specialist or email at Snoddyj@mail.nih.gov.
- Web Link
-
FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/HHS/NIH/NIDA-2/2427355/listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Address: Bethesda, Maryland, 20892, United States
- Zip Code: 20892
- Zip Code: 20892
- Record
- SN02694195-W 20120314/120312234458-63317962dab9e19f35d2a3e4a45a2cbb (fbodaily.com)
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