36C26318Q9708-000.docx

FedBizOpps Presolicitation Notice

CLASSIFICATION CODE

SUBJECT

CONTRACTING OFFICE'S

ZIP-CODE

SOLICITATION NUMBER

RESPONSE DATE (MM-DD-YYYY)

ARCHIVE

DAYS AFTER THE RESPONSE DATE

RECOVERY ACT FUNDS

SET-ASIDE

NAICS CODE

CONTRACTING OFFICE

ADDRESS

POINT OF CONTACT

(POC Information Automatically Filled from User Profile Unless Entered)

DESCRIPTION

See Attachment

AGENCY'S URL

URL DESCRIPTION

AGENCY CONTACT'S EMAIL

ADDRESS

EMAIL DESCRIPTION

ADDRESS

POSTAL CODE

COUNTRY

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

GENERAL INFORMATION

PLACE OF PERFORMANCE

* = Required Field FedBizOpps Presolicitation Notice Rev. March 2010 A Notice of Intent to Sole Source Service - 636-18-4-4604-0764 - PO# 636D83059 - Base PoP 9/15/2018 - 9/14/2019 U of IA - Research of TBI and Optic Nerve Edema - Garvin 52241 36C26318Q9708 08-01-2018 N 611310 Department of Veterans Affairs

NETWORK 23 CONTRACTING OFFICE

1303 5th St, Suite 300 Coralville IA 52241 William Jefferson william.jefferson4@va.gov Department of Veterans Affairs Iowa City VAMC 601 Highway 6 West Iowa City, IA 52246

USA

william.jefferson4@va.gov Contract Specialist The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Network Contracting Office (NCO) 23 intends to solicit and negotiate a sole source, firm fixed priced purchase order, under Simplified Acquisition Procedures under authority of FAR Part 13.106-1 (b)(1)(i), One Source Reasonably Available, to the University of Iowa for services in support of the specified aims of the Iowa City VA Health Care System, Iowa City Project Study# C1786-R, Primary Investigator Mona Garvin. NAICS Code 611310 with a size standard of $27.5 million will be utilized. The proximity of the University of Iowa and strong collaboration with the VA investigators is integral to the success of this project study.

The University of Iowa is to provide services of personnel with expertise to recruit/consent patients with optic disc swelling at both recruitment sites, to organize the study cohort data (including SD-OCT and fundus photographs) obtained during the service period, to develop a working implementation of an image-analysis algorithm to estimate the degree of optic disc swelling from fundus photographs alone, and to provide a potential set of fundus-photography-based features that could be used to differentiate the cause of optic disc swelling. Services will also be provided in segmenting the ganglion cell and nerve fiber layers and providing global and regional thickness measurements.

Period of Performance: 9/15/2018 – 9/14/2019.

This notice is not a request for competitive proposals. It is not a solicitation or request for offers. No solicitation package is available and no award will be made based on offerors responses to this notice.

A determination by the Government not to compete this requirement based on responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information received will be considered solely for market research and information on whether to conduct a competitive procurement in future project study services awarded in support of grant recipients.

Please send all questions regarding this procurement to William Jefferson, Contract Specialist, at the Iowa City, VA NCO23 Specialized contracting office to william.jefferson4@va.gov. Telephone responses and requests will not be received.