ARRAOS_10-223-SOL-00105_Legacy_Data_Conversion_Servics

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has awarded an Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract for called "Legacy Data Conversion Services." Certain legacy study data that currently resides at FDA in a myriad of different formats must be converted into an electronic uniform
standard structure to facilitate answering important scientific and regulatory questions of interest to promote the public health. The requirement will provide services to convert legacy study data to a standard format identified by FDA {format to be identified on a case by case basis and may include Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC; www.CDISC.org) Study Data Tabulation Model (SDTM), Standard for Exchange of Nonclinical Data (SEND), Analysis Dataset Model (ADaM), and the CDISC-HL7 (Health Level 7; www.HL7.org) standards}. The contractor shall work with FDA to harmonize variable names and terminology as needed to allow analysis across multiple studies. The requirement will also support the advancement of current standards and support the development of new standardized values for domain data by ensuring alignment to the appropriate standard development organization (SDO; e.g. CDISC, HL7).

The Contractor shall provide the project management, expertise, and labor leading to the successful conversion of the legacy data to its standardized format. The requirement was awarded to a small business and was competitively full and open to all small business firms who wished to compete. The IDIQ contract contains a base ordering period of 5 years. Award

As part of the solicitation, offerors were required to respond to a seed task
that resulted in the first task order issued against the IDIQ contract. That first task order was issued
immediately after the execution of the IDIQ contract was completed. The first task order was issued under HHSF22301002T for $5,947,450. The first task order was funded using ARRA funding. There are no other known requirements that will be performed under this contract using ARRA funding. In addressing FAR Subpart 5.7-Publicizing Requirements Under the American
Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, the Government states that the IDIQ contract will only be funded "in part" by ARRA funds. The task order conforms to all ARRA requirements.