Continuation Of Collaborative Research On Ethical Issues Related To Disability, Reproductive Ethics, And Neuroscience And Faculty Support.

INTRODUCTION
THIS IS A PRE-SOLICITATION NON-COMPETITIVE (NOTICE OF INTENT) SYNOPSIS TO AWARD A CONTRACT OR PURCHASE ORDER WITHOUT PROVIDING FOR FULL OR OPEN COMPETITION (INCLUDING BRAND-NAME).
The National Institutes of Health (NIH), Clinical Center (CC), Office of Purchasing and Contracts (OPC) on behalf of the Department of Bioethics, Clinical Center (CC) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) intends to negotiate and award a contract without providing for full and open competition (Including brand-name) to:

David Wasserman
4324 Woodberry St.
University Park, MD 20782

NORTH AMERICAN INDUSTRY CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM (NAICS) CODE

The intended procurement is classified under NAICS code 541720 with a Size Standard $20,500,000.00.

REGULATORY AUTHORITY

The resultant contract will include all applicable provisions and clauses in effect through the Federal Acquisition Circular (FAC) 2005-99-1, July 16, 2018. This acquisition is conducted under the procedures as prescribed in FAR Part 6.

STATUTORY AUTHORITY

This acquisition is conducted under the authority of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 6-Other Than Full and Open Completion, Subpart 6.302-1 (a) (2).

GENERAL INFORMATION

1. Title: Continuation Of Collaborative Research On Ethical Issues Related To Disability, Reproductive Ethics, And Neuroscience And Faculty Support.
2. Background Information: The Department of Bioethics at the Clinical Center engages in research related to the ethics of human subject research, as well as the ethics of clinical practice. A growing area of interest to the Department's research foci is ethics in the context of health policy, in particular the ethics of technology assessment, the ethics of determining insurance coverage and the ethics of using information databases in the overlap between medical records and research.
4. Period of Performance: Base Year and up to Four One-year Option(s).
5. The Bioethics Department would provide faculty with strong bioethics backgrounds to strengthen the training components of the department and to educate members of the NIH community on bioethical issues. To achieve this, the Department created several educational programs: Ethics Grand Rounds, held four to six times a year as part of the Clinical Center's Grand Rounds Program; a comprehensive training course, Ethical and Regulatory Aspects of Clinical Research, on the ethics of research; and a rigorous fellowship program to train bioethicists for the future.

In order to continually strengthen the training program for fellows, the
Department of Bioethics supplements its faculty by bringing in leading
ethics scholars to enrich and broaden the scope of ethics training received
by the fellows but also to bring new perspectives and to share these with fellows through teaching, mentoring and collaborative research.

David Wasserman, JD, MA is trained in law and psychology and interested in ethics and genetics, an important and growing field of bioethics. He is co-editor of Harming Future Persons: Ethics, Genetics, and the Nonidentity Problem, as well as Quality of Life and Human Difference: Genetic Testing, Health Care, and Disability. His many writings involve issues of ethics, moral status, health-care decision making, disabilities, risk and benefit, and other major areas of bioethics and research. The issues of genetic testing and management and releasing of test results are a major issue in research today.

CLOSING STATEMENT

This synopsis is not a request for competitive proposals. However, interested parties may identify their interest and capability to respond to this notice. Responses to this notice shall contain sufficient information to establish the interested parties' bona-fide capabilities for fulfilling the requirement and include a technical proposal, a cost-price proposal, the period of performance, the Dun & Bradstreet Number (DUNS), the Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN), and the certification of business size. All 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 contract based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. The information received will normally be considered solely for the purposes of determining whether to proceed on a non-competitive basis or to conduct a competitive procurement.
All responses must be received by November 29, 2018, 9:00 AM Eastern time and must reference solicitation number 19-000047. Responses may be submitted electronically to Mr. Michael Falzone, Contracting Specialist at Michael.falzone@nih.gov. Fax responses will not be accepted.

"All responsible sources may submit a capability statement, proposal, or quotation, which shall be considered by the agency."

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