B. SOW.pdf

Version 11-30-2016-1 FAR Part 11—Describing Agency Needs

STATEMENT OF WORK (SERVICES)

(SOW)

GENERAL INFORMATION

Title of Project:

Account Management, Planning, and Maintenance for Online Crowd-Sourced Surveys and Cognitive Tasks for Individuals With and Without Metal Health Disorders

Statement of Need and Purpose:

The contractor shall provide all resources necessary to accomplish the tasks and deliverables described in this Statement of Work (SOW). The contractor shall provide services for managing accounts for online crowd-sourced research.

Background Information and Objective:

The Unit on Computational Decision Neuroscience (CDN) at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) is requesting to run online studies of individuals with and without mental health disorders with an online survey provider’s platform. To conduct these studies, NIMH will require a contract for a provider to collect these surveys and provide the responses along with additional demographic information.

Period of Performance:

The period of performance is for a base year from the date of award in addition to one additional option year.

SCOPE OF WORK

General Requirements:

Independently and not as an agent of the Government, the Contractor shall furnish all the necessary services, qualified personnel, material, equipment, and facilities, not otherwise provided by the Government as needed to perform the Statement of Work below:

Specific Requirements:

Task: Collecting Survey and Task Responses from Individuals With and Without Mental Health Disorders

The Contractor will provide participants for cognitive tasks and surveys. CDN and their collaborators at the NIMH will build the cognitive tasks surveys and ensure that they comply with the Contractor’s requirements. The Contractor will make the tasks and survey(s) available to their panel of respondents until the required number of responses are collected and will manage participant reimbursement.

The survey questions may assess the severity of depression and anxiety symptoms and other psychiatric conditions, and assess the impact of those symptoms on respondents functioning in day-to-day life. Additionally, we may collect open-ended responses about participants experiences with the task(s), their condition, and other factors . The responses to survey questions may be collected through the Contractor’s service or through a third-party service to be arranged by CDN. Participants will also complete a battery of cognitive tasks downloaded from servers managed by CDN. Respondents may be required to have a personal computer with Windows 10 or MacOS in order to complete the cognitive tasks.

Level of Effort

The total price of is to allow the collection of a combination of surveys and tasks taking up to ~75 minutes from at least 1,500 high-quality adult respondents fluent in English who have access to a personal computer with Windows 10 or MacOS. Participant completion compensation will be no greater than $20. There are two options for the groups from which those respondents will be recruited:

GOVERNMENT RESPONSIBILITIES

The government’s responsibilities involve providing feedback to the contractor on the operation of the ongoing online studies if a problem arises.

DELIVERY OR DELIVERABLES

The contractor is required to complete participants’ compensation services within one (1) calendar day after the subject completes the task.

REPORTING REQUIREMENTS

N/A

OTHER CONSIDERATIONS

N/A

Travel:

N/A

Key Personnel:

The contractor shall have extensive experience in providing services for managing online accounts and handling of participant compensation.

Data Rights:

The Government shall have unlimited rights to, and ownership of all deliverables provided under this contract, including reports, recommendations, briefings, work plans and other deliverables.

(FAR Clause 52.227-17 Rights in Data- Special Works).

Section 508—Electronic and Information Technology Standards:

The contractor shall comply with Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act (29 U.S.C. § 794d), as amended by the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (P.L. 105-220), August 7, 1998.

Publications and Publicity:

The contractor will not write scientific publications based on any work conducted under this contract.

Confidentiality of Information:

The Government will not provide to the contractor any information or data of a personal nature about individual(s) or proprietary information or data pertaining to an institution or organization which is confidential. Whenever the contractor is uncertain with regard to the confidentiality of or a property interest in information under this contract, the contractor should consult with the Contracting Officer prior to any release, disclosure, dissemination, or publication.