AJ11--Research Support Brigham & Womens

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The Department of Veterans Affairs, Salt Lake City VA Medical Center, intends to negotiate on a sole source basis, pursuant to FAR 6.302-1, with Brigham & Women s Hospital in support of VA research study, VA Quantitative Quality Assurance (VA-QQA) MRI for Brain Health , CHIPS: Clinical Health Imaging Portability Standards for VA MRI , and Neuroimaging Data Harmonization for LIMBIC-CENC . The Psychiatry Neuroimaging Lab at Brigham and Women s have been developing a model-free dMRI harmonization method which can be used to harmonize the raw dMRI signal (and not just a particular dMRI measure of interest) across sites. This framework estimates an efficient mapping across scanners despite differences in scanner parameters (including different number of gradients, b-values and spatial resolution). The Neuroimaging Data Harmonization for LIMBIC-CENC is a standardization implementation of the VA imaging centers for the brain. The VA currently scans 500,000 scans a year on veterans and this framework established at Brigham and Women s Hopsital estimates an efficient mapping across scanners despite differences in scanner parameters. The LIMBIC-CERN systems must be used for consistency in research results as key diagnostic categories in MRI brain health, such as detecting TBI-related damage in brain tracts across sites, instruments, body space, and time, correcting the 37 year absence of calibration in MRI. This is a notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals; however, any responsible source who believes it is capable of meeting the requirement may submit a capability statement to the contracting office no later than July 16th, 12PM, EST. Interest/capability statements may be sent to Lynn Portman at lynn.portman@va.gov. No telephone responses will be accepted. A determination not to compete the proposed requirement based upon the responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government.