Pre-Sol_Notice.pdf

PRE-SOLICITATION NOTICE

N02-CO-87002-27

“NCI Center for Global Health, Logistics, Data Analysis and Technical Support”

THIS ACQUISITION IS BEING ADVERTISED UNDER A TOTAL SMALL BUSINESS SET-ASIDE.

Background

The Center for Global Health (CGH) supports NCI's goal to advance global cancer research, build expertise, and leverage resources across nations to address the challenges of cancer and reduce cancer deaths worldwide. Enabling the open exchange of scientific knowledge is a critical goal in the fight against cancer. CGH’s strategic priorities are:

• Strengthening Sustainable Cancer Research and Cancer Control Planning (includes capacity building)

• Creating and Sustaining Partnerships

• Monitoring Research Efforts and Disseminating Results

CGH facilitates research efforts to decrease the global burden of cancer by collaborating with U.S.

government agencies, foreign governments, non-government organizations, and pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. The primary functions of the Center are to:

• Develop research programs that facilitate collaborations between US and foreign investigators that answer cancer research questions;

• Strengthen U.S. national, regional, multilateral, and bilateral collaboration in global health research, cancer research, and cancer control;

• Train investigators and help develop research capacity in global health across the cancer continuum, both in the United States and in the developing world;

• Develop new scientific initiatives and programs that contribute to our understanding of cancer prevention, detection or management.

CGH engages in individual and group training activities that involve international exchanges of scientists that are aimed at increasing the world's capacity for cancer control and research. To respond to the broad mandate given to the NCI and to fulfill its own mission, CGH is in need of logistical conference/meeting/workshop support services; travel services to support its various projects and partnerships in international cancer control and research; program evaluation to determine the merit of training and other international programs; portfolio analyses to assess investment in various countries and in different relevant research areas; and preparation of documents to disseminate information about global cancer controls, evaluation results and analyses. Program evaluations will be utilized by the Government to determine if a program should continue, expand and/or change scope based on the assessed impact of the activity.

Project Requirements:

A Draft Statement of Work (SOW) is attached to this notice, outlining the following task areas:

Task 1: Logistical Support for Conferences and Meetings

Task 2: Logistical Support for Individual and Group Training Activities

Task 3: Technical support for process and/or outcome evaluations of CGH programs

Task 4: Data and portfolio analysis, and production of accompanying reports.

Task 5: Science and technical writing, presentations, and documentation support

Solicitation Date:

The solicitation is scheduled for electronic release on or about May 15, 2018 and receipt of proposals well be due on or about June 15, 2018. The RFP may be accessed through the NCI Office of Acquisitions, NCI homepage by using the following address: http://rcb.cancer.gov/rcb-internet/index.jsp; or through FedBizOpps.gov https://www.fbo.gov/. All information required for submission of a proposal will be contained in the electronic

Request for Proposal package. It is the offeror’s responsibility to monitor the above internet sites for the release of this solicitation and amendments if any. ALL OFFERORS WILL BE RESONSIBLE FOR DOWNLOADING

THEIR OWN COPY OF THE SOLICITATION AND ANY AMENDMENTS, FAILURE TO DO SO WILL BE

AT YOUR FIRM’S OWN RISK. IN ADDITION, ALL QUESTIONS MUST BE SUBMITTED

ELECTRONICALLY. NO FAX SUBMISSIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED. NO COLLECT CALLS WILL BE

ACCEPTED.

Other Important Considerations:

This is a new requirement. This solicitation is anticipated to result in one award to an offeror capable of performing all aspects of the work described in the attached Draft Statement of Work. The contract type will be a Single Award

Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) Contract. We anticipated that a single award will be made on or before September 30, 2018, for a period of five years. This acquisition will be a total small business set-aside due to the responses that were received from a small business sources sought notice that was posted on February 13, 2018 under HHS-NIH-NCI-SBSS-TSB-87002-27.

NAICS Code and Size Standard: The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code that will be used is 541611 with a size standard of $15.0 million.

DISCLAIMER AND IMPORANT NOTES: This notice does not obligate the Government to award a contract.

Interested parties are advised that the Government is under no obligation to acknowledge receipt of any information received or provide feedback to interested parties with respect to any information submitted.

Main Point of Contact: Andrew May, Contracting Officer

Andrew.May@nih.gov

Riverside Five, Suite 400, Room 4032

8490 Progress Drive

Frederick, MD 21701

Phone: 301-624-8755 http://rcb.cancer.gov/rcb-internet/index.jsp https://www.fbo.gov/