Presolicitation Notice_Medical Residents for NIH Clinical Center.pdf

PRESOLICITATION NOTICE

Medical Residents for NIH Clinical Center Solicitation# 75N93025R00013

Note: This synopsis follows a Sources Sought notice that was released on February 9, 2024

THIS IS A NOTICE OF INTENT, NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL. A SOLICITATION WILL

BE ISSUED ON A LATER DATE.

Type of Requirement

New Requirement Re-competition (Contract Numbers.: 75N93020D00001 and 75N93020D00002) Expansion of (Contract/Task Order/RFP No.: ______________)

Place of Performance

Place of performance is unknown at this time Place of performance is known. Address or general location: NIH Clinical Center, 10 Center Dr, Bethesda, MD 20892

Contracting Office Address

Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Office of Acquisitions, 5601 Fishers Lane, MSC 9821, Bethesda, MD, 20892-9821

Duration of contract: ___5.5___ Years (May 31, 2025, through November 30, 2030)

Anticipated award date: _May 31, 2025__

Presolicitation Notice Information

Introduction

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) is a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). NIAID supports basic and applied research to prevent, diagnose and treat infectious diseases and also conducts research on basic immunology, transplantation and immune-related disorders, including asthma and allergies. Patients enrolled in NIAID clinical research protocols are hospitalized for protocol related medical care at the NIH Clinical Center.

This contract will provide a non-personal services contract to provide Postgraduate Medical Residents.

The Government shall not exercise any supervision or control over the contract service providers performing the services herein. Such contract service providers shall be accountable solely to the Contractor who, in turn is responsible to the Government.

Purpose & Objectives

Medical Residents will provide primary medical care for NIAID clinical research adult inpatients at the NIH Clinical Center. The contractor shall provide all personnel, equipment, supplies, facilities, transportation, tools, materials, supervision, and other items and non-personal services necessary to perform Postgraduate Medical Resident services.

The contractor will provide an estimated 80 hours of professional services for each postgraduate physician resident, every week. The residents assigned will be either a postgraduate year 2, 3 or 4 (PGY-2, PGY-3 or PGY-4). Any medical resident assigned to duty on this contract must be present at the NIH campus within one hour of notification for purposes of clinical patient care. The internal medicine residents will provide medical care to NIAID clinical research adult inpatients as assigned by the NIAID Clinical Director or designee at the NIH Clinical Center, located in Bethesda, Maryland.

The contractor will assign four medical residents every day of the week and is responsible for coordinating with the Contracting Officers Representative (COR) the planned start and end dates of each resident rotation. In addition, the contractor will ensure that the medical residents:

• Initially rotates for no less than 28 consecutive days. Additional rotations after this period may be for less than the 28 consecutive days.

• Assigned in June of each year is a PGY-2 resident.

• If absent from their scheduled on-call shift or any absence exceeding 24 hours, be replaced with a credentialed resident, which must be coordinated with the COR or designee.

NIAID anticipates awarding an Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract, with various types of task order pricing structures, including fixed-price, and labor hour/time & materials, dependent on the need, to an organization that has the capabilities to fulfill the technical requirements of the upcoming solicitation.

Any responsible offeror may submit a proposal which shall be considered by the Agency. It is anticipated that the Request for Proposal (RFP) will be available electronically on about February 12, 2025, and may be accessed through sam.gov.

The RFP will be advertised as a Full and Open Competition. WE ENCOURAGE ALL RESPONSIBLE SOURCES

TO SUBMIT A PROPOSAL WHICH WILL BE CONSIDERED BY THE AGENCY.

This notice does not commit the Government to award a contract. No collect calls shall be accepted. No facsimile transmissions shall be accepted.

For this solicitation, the NIAID requires proposals be submitted Online via the NIAID electronic Contract Proposal Submission (eCPS) website. Submission of proposals by facsimile or e-mail is not acceptable.

For directions on using eCPS, please go to the website https://ecps.nih.gov and then click on "How to Submit."

https://ecps.nih.gov/