Consumer Product Information Database (CPID)

FBO Notice: 75N96020021020

This contract action is for the acquisition of services for which the Government intends to solicit and negotiate with only one source under the authority of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Subpart 13.106(b). The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), Office of Acquisitions (OA) intends to award a single source purchase order to DeLima Associates, 1227 Providence Terrace, Suite L-2, McLean, VA 22101, for the following:

DeLima Associates will provide non-exclusive rights to NIEHS for use of the Consumer Product Information Database (CPID) in accordance with the terms and conditions of a License Agreement. NIEHS will have the right to link to the CPID website hosted and maintained by DeLima Associates during the term of this Agreement.

DeLima Associates will grant to NIEHS a non-exclusive copyright license to access consumer product ingredients and health effects data contained in CPID via the CPID web site: https://www.whatsinproducts.com. This License does not permit downloading of data.

DeLima Associates designed, developed and commercialized a database titled Consumer Product

Information Database (CPID) with seed money provided through a SBIR Grant from The Centers

for Disease Control & Prevention in 1995. This copyrighted database (Copyright Owner: DeLima

Associates) is a searchable database which now contains over 21,000 brand-name consumers

products. CPID is the only consumer product database in the U.S. that connects the chemical

ingredients of 10 categories of brand-name consumer products with their health effects in one

place. This is the only database that allows users to compare the usage, form, ingredients and

health effects of products from over 480 manufacturers in one place using multiple user-friendly

search strategies.

The anticipated period of performance will be for a twelve (12) month base period.

The applicable North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this acquisition is 541618 " Other Management Consulting Services” and a size standard of $16,500,000.

NIEHS will solicit and negotiate directly with DeLima Associates and no solicitation will be issued. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals or quotations; however, if an interested party believes they can meet the above requirement, it may submit a statement of capabilities. The statement of capabilities must be submitted in writing and must contain material in sufficient detail to allow the Government to determine if the party can perform the requirement. 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 requirement based on responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. All interested parties must express their interest and capabilities in writing via email to luis.salas@nih.gov within five (5) days after the date of publication of this notice. No faxed documents will be accepted. If no responsive statements are received within five (5) days, an award will be made to DeLima Associates.