NIAAA Alcohol Epidemiologic Data System (AEDS)

This notice is issued by the NICHD Office of Acquisitions on behalf of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA).

This is a Small Business Sources Sought notice. This is NOT a solicitation for proposals, proposal abstracts, or quotations. There is no solicitation available at this time.

The purpose of this notice is to obtain information regarding: (1) the availability and capability of all qualified small business sources; (2) whether they are small businesses; HUBZone small businesses; service-disabled, veteran­ owned small businesses; 8(a) small businesses; veteran-owned small businesses; woman-owned small businesses; or small disadvantaged businesses; and (3) their size classification according to the North American Industry Classification System, (NAICS) code for the proposed acquisition. Your responses to the information requested will assist the Government in determining the appropriate acquisition method, including whether a set­ aside is possible.

An organization that is not considered a small business under the applicable NAICS code should not submit a response to this notice.

The NAICS Code applicable to this announcement is 541990 ¿ All Other Professional, Scientific and Technical Services. The small business size standard for this NAICS is $19.5M.

The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) is seeking capability statements from small business organizations (NAICS 541990; small business size standard is $19.5M) with experience providing technical support services in the areas of statistical analysis and statistical programming support for analysis of secondary data from national population surveys and other sources to support NIAAA staff who are conducting alcohol-related epidemiologic research. The long-standing NIAAA Alcohol Epidemiologic Data System (AEDS) project provides NIAAA staff with technical support including expert statistical analysis and statistical programming support to facilitate publication by NIAAA staff of secondary analyses of epidemiologic surveys and other data in reports and scientific journals.

Specifically, the NIAAA Alcohol Epidemiologic Data System (AEDS) project supports the mission of NIAAA by: 1) obtaining statistical and statistical programming support to produce alcohol-related epidemiologic Surveillance Reports published on the NIAAA website (https://www.niaaa.nih.gov) that detail US national trends in alcohol consumption and related areas; and 2) obtaining statistical and statistical programming support to assist NIAAA staff in production of alcohol-related epidemiologic manuscripts for publication in peer-reviewed journals that examine use of alcohol in the US population and related topics of importance to the Institute.

The planned acquisition is a follow-on requirement to active contract HHSN275201800004C, ¿Alcohol Epidemiologic Data System¿, awarded to CSR Inc. with a period of performance 09/27/2018 through 09/26/2022.

See the attachment to this announcement entitled SMALL BUSINESS SOURCES SOUGHT 75N94023R00007 for instructions on how to respond to this announcement.