A02_Notice_of_Intent_to_Sole_source.doc

The United States Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity (USAMRAA), Fort Detrick, MD intends to issue a sole source award utilizing Commercial Acquisition Procedures to the CIWEC Clinic Travel Medicine Center in Kathmandu, Nepal. Non-personal support services are required for Epidemiology of Diarrhea and Clinical Outcomes in Travelers to Nepal. This award shall provide the services for a prospective observational study to determine the etiology of TD and to describe the development of post-infectious sequelae and chronic intestinal symptoms after traveler’s diarrhea episodes. In this amended protocol, detail clinical information and clinical outcomes among cases with TD will be described. This is a surveillance study. There will be no therapeutic interventions involved in this study. Subjects with or without diarrhea will receive the treatment to which they would otherwise be entitled at the CIWEC Clinic. This notice of intent is for information purposes only. All sources eligible to provide this service must respond in writing. Responses must be supported with clear and convincing evidence to clearly articulate the ability to provide services outlined above. A request for documentation will not be considered as an affirmative response. If no responses are received, within 5 days after publication of this notice, to the effect that comparable services are available, and that it is more advantageous to the Government than obtaining these services through a sole-source contract, then a sole source acquisition award will be made. Response to this notice is to be sent to john.l.fitzsimmons8civ@mail.mil.