SOLICITATION NOTICE
L -- Patient Recruitment
- Notice Date
- 5/19/2008
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 541810
— Advertising Agencies
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, Office of Acquisitions, 6120 Executive Blvd., EPS Suite 600, Rockville, Maryland, 20852
- ZIP Code
- 20852
- Solicitation Number
- Reference-Number-N02-RC-81020-56
- Point of Contact
- Juana T Diaz,, Phone: (301) 496-8613, Richard L Hartmann,, Phone: (301) 496-8620
- E-Mail Address
-
diazj@mail.nih.gov, Richard.Hartmann@nih.gov
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Title: Patient Recruitment The NIH Clinical Center, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland is seeking a contractor to provide assistance in recruiting patients for NCI Clinical Trials to be conducted at the NIH Clinical Center. In performance of this work the contractor will be responsible for the following: a. Provide assistance to the NCI Center for Cancer Research designated staff within the Office of Patient Recruitment and Public Liaison Call Center, in facilitating accurate referral of patients for NCI Clinical Trials. This shall include, but is not limited to creation of protocol notes, and tools for reporting and monitoring of patients referred from the Call Center. b. Maintain and Promote the NCI Clinical Trials Website: 1) maintain the content of the NCI Clinical Trials web site hosted on computer servers provided and maintained by the Government. This shall include, but it is not limited to, maintenance and development of applications for browsing and searching of NCI clinical trials, providing general and specific information on NCI clinical trials for both the general public and health care professionals, providing news concerning NCI clinical trials, and providing links to other web sites providing complementary information; 2) Develop and maintain tools for promoting and directing web traffic to the NCI Clinical Trial web site. Determine promotion methods involving other web sites, web search engines, and other media to direct individuals to the web site. Develop promotion programs for disease specific clinical trials, programs, and information portals as requested; 3) execute quality control, and quality assurance plans. c. Patient Recruitment Tasks: 1) create electronic recruitment tools; 2) monitor and analyze patient recruitment efforts undertaken; 3) monitor national trends in patient outreach; 4) create, maintain, and promote the use of electronic mailing lists; 5) develop and place recruitment materials, perform outreach and recruitment activities at reaching various targeted audiences; 6) store and distribute recruitment materials; 7) obtain approval and clearances necessary for recruitment materials. d. Advocacy and Support Activities: 1) Research and analyze overall outcomes of outreach efforts; 2) track national trends in patient outreach; 3) develop and maintain working relationships with health-related advocacy; 4) develop campaigns to increase general awareness of NCI's intramural program; 5) attend meetings to review progress and discuss strategies and plans. This acquisition is a recompetition of contract No. N02-RC-37010 currently held by Mathews Media Group Inc. of Rockville, Maryland. It is anticipated that one cost reimbursement, completion type contract will be awarded for a period of up to five years (one base plus four options). The solicitation is scheduled for electronic release on or about June 2, 2008. The proposal will be due approximately 30 days following the actual date of RFP issuance. This is a full and open competition under NAICS Code is 541810. The RFP #N02-RC-81020-56 may be accessed through the Office of Acquisitions Home Page by using the following internet address: http://rcb.cancer.gov/rcb-internet. It is the offeror's responsibility to monitor the above Internet site for the release of this solicitation and amendments, if any. POTENTIAL OFFERORS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR DOWNLOADING THEIR OWN COPY OF THE RFP AND ANY AMENDMENTS. Point of contact: Juana A. Diaz, Contract Specialist at e-mail: diazj@mail.nih.gov, FAX: 301-402-6699, Phone: 301-496-8613. No collect calls will be accepted.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: To be determined, United States
- Record
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