NOTICE OF INTENT_NICHD-23-135.pdf

INTRODUCTION

THIS IS A PRE-SOLICITATION NON-COMPETITIVE (NOTICE OF INTENT) SYNOPSIS TO

AWARD A CONTRACT OR PURCHASE ORDER WITHOUT PROVIDING FOR FULL OR

OPEN COMPETITION. The National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Child Health and Development (NICHD), in support of the work of the National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Disease (NIDDK), intends to award a purchase order without providing for full and open competition (Including brand-name) to Information Management Services, Inc, 3901 Calverton Boulevard, Calverton, Maryland 20705 to procure a base + 4 option year award for Biospecimen Inventory (BSI) License Subscription Support.

NORTH AMERICAN INDUSTRY CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM (NAICS) CODE

The intended procurement is classified under NAICS code 518210 with a Size Standard $35.0.

REGULATORY AUTHORITY

The resultant contract will include all applicable provisions and clauses in effect through the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Circular (FAC) 2023-02 effective 03/16/2023. This acquisition is conducted under the procedures as prescribed in FAR subpart 13-Simplified Acquisition Procedures at an amount not exceeding the simplified acquisition threshold ($250,000) and FAR Subpart 12- Acquisition of Commercial Items.

STATUTORY AUTHORITY

This acquisition is conducted under the authority of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 13—Simplified Acquisition Procedures, Subpart 13.106-1 (b) (1), Soliciting from a single source and is not expected to exceed the simplified acquisition threshold. Contracts awarded using FAR Part 13—Simplified Acquisition Procedures are exempt from the requirements of FAR Part 6— Competition Requirements.

Place of Performance National Institutes of Health 9000 Rockville Pike Bethesda MD 20892 United States

PRE-SOLICITATION NON-COMPETITIVE (NOTICE OF INTENT) SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION OF REQUIREMENT

The NIDDK Clinical Core runs the Biorepository for the NIDDK Intramural program.

All samples collected from patients seen at the Clinical Center are processed and stored in the repository. The database used for the repository is a professional JAVA-based web database system that works with both PCs and MACs. The database catalogues our patient samples for each protocol, tracks their locations and prints labels for our samples. The BSI database is backed up every night at 2 remote locations. This service is essential to the research mission of NIDDK to maintain an electronic database of all patient information allowing patient information to be tracked, secure, and uniquely unidentified.

REQUIRED FEATURES AND SPECIFICATIONS

The Biospecimen Inventory (BSI) Support is required to allow patient samples processing, storage, and tracking functionality with high fidelity.

The features of this support include:

- BSI Core System Subscription (+SSO Integration)

- IMS Hosting (500,000 – 1,000,000 specimens)

- BSI Technical Support

TASK AREAS:

Task Area 1 – Computer Center Hosting – Contractor shall provide service(s) that include maintaining the data on an SQL database, renewal of any user licenses, providing a firewall to protect your data, performing backups, and other related computer services.

Task Area 2 – Subscription Services – Contractor shall provide a for general system maintenance, ensuring compatibility of new features with your database, enhancing your toolkit to take advantage of new features, performance tuning, programming to implement new technologies, and the installation of new features.

Task Area 3 – Technical Support – Contractor shall provide Technical Support hours from 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday (Eastern Time). Technical Support is tracked in 15-minute increments. Support minutes not used during the calendar year roll over to the next year. Additional support package(s) can be purchased when the current package is exhausted.

Period of performance is Base Year September 22, 2023 – September 21, 2024.

Option Year 1: September 22, 2024 – September 21, 2025 Option Year 2: September 22, 2025 – September 21, 2026 Option Year 3: September 22, 2026 – September 21, 2027 Option Year 4: September 22, 2027 – September 21, 2028

CONTRACTING WITHOUT PROVIDING FOR FULL OR OPEN COMPETITION

(INCLUDING BRAND- NAME) DETERMINATION

The determination by the Government to award a contract without providing for full and open competition is based upon the market research conducted as prescribed in FAR Part 10—Market Research. Only one source is available: Per FAR 13.106-1(b)(1) the Contracting Officer has determined that Information Management Services, Inc is authorized to maintain a specimen-tracking database to provide quick, reliable, and accurate accounting for clinical specimens stored with the Clinical Laboratory Core.

CLOSING STATEMENT

This synopsis is not a request for competitive proposals. However, interested parties may identify their interest and capability to respond to this notice.

Respondents are advised that the Government is under no obligation to acknowledge receipt of the information received or provided feedback to respondents with respect to any information submitted. Responses to this notice shall contain sufficient information to establish the interested parties’ bona-fide capabilities for fulfilling the requirement, unit price, list price, shipping and handling costs, the delivery period after contract award, the prompt payment discount terms, the F.O.B. Point (Destination or Origin), the Vendor/Contractor’s (UEI) the Unique Entity ID from SAM.gov is now the authoritative identifier for those doing business with the federal government. The DUNS Number is no longer valid for federal award identification, the Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN), and the certification of business size. All offerors must have an active registration in the System for Award Management (SAM) www.sam.gov.”

A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed contract based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. The information received will normally be considered solely for the purposes of determining whether to proceed on a non-competitive basis or to conduct a competitive procurement.

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All responses to this notice (NICHD-23-135) shall be submitted electronically by 11:00 AM Eastern Standard Time, on May 22, 2022.