SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- Contractor Services as a Social Worker
- Notice Date
- 7/24/2012
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 541690
— Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Station Support/Simplified Acquisitions, 31 Center Drive, Room 1B59, Bethesda, Maryland, 20892
- ZIP Code
- 20892
- Solicitation Number
- 2604639
- Archive Date
- 8/16/2012
- Point of Contact
- Jasmine D Snoddy, Phone: 301 594 1571
- E-Mail Address
-
snoddyj@mail.nih.gov
(snoddyj@mail.nih.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- This is a notice of intent, not a request for a proposal. A solicitation document will not be issued and proposals will not be requested. National Institute on Drug Abuse, Office of Acquisitions-Neurosciences, Station Support/Simplified Acquisition, on behalf of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)-Clinical Brain Disorders Branch (CBDB), intends to negotiate and award a purchase order on a noncompetitive basis to Carol Rodeffer, 3093 South Woodrow Street, Arlington, Virginia, for Contractor Services as a Social Worker to be directly involved in a project that explores the genetics of schizophrenia that involves subject eligibility determination for four (4) CBDB/NIMH protocols and two (2) drug studies; patient screening and recruitment (schizophrenics, siblings, parents and healthy controls); onsite and off-site DNA samples collection; assessment and research coordination; and review of medical; psychiatric records; and represent CBDB at local and national conference. The project test the following hypotheses: 1) certain specific neurobiological clinical characteristics of patients with schizophrenia are also found in unaffected siblings, 2) the relative risk of these intermediate biological phenotypes is sufficiently high and are likely to be inherited and useful in genetic studies, 3) susceptibility genes and loci related to these intermediate phenotypes can be found using a candidate gene approach; and 4) genes identified as being related to schizophrenia will explain variations in the clinical characteristics of these phenotypes. The following services must be provided, either on-site at National Institute of Health (NIH) and/or potentially off-site: 1. The recruitment, assessment, and research coordination of patients selected for the SCID/DNA arm of the NIMH Genetic Study of Schizophrenia. 2. Coordinates the research participation for individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia who qualify for the SCID/DNA arm of the study. The patient is contacted and the study is explained. Consent forms are sent and an interview is scheduled. The patient is accomplished to phlebotomy for a blood draw when the patient is able to come in to the outpatient clinic. The patient at home is consented by telephone with the interviewing psychiatrist and assisted in locating a facility and making an appointment for his blood draw, while noting what the cost of the blood draw will be. The payment is made either by requesting a bill or reimbursing the patient, if over the amount allowed. 3. Assessment of patients' capacity to give informed consent and consenting patients for research. 4. The screening of healthy volunteers who serve as controls for Protocol #95-M-0150 with necessary follow-up and scheduling to participants in the 2 day or 1 day study. The screening of applicants for inpatient and outpatient protocols as required. This requires contact at the time of the intake call and ongoing following up contact with the patients and their family. Completes the FIGs for siblings and healthy volunteers, when needed. 5. The review of medical and psychiatric records, recommending suitable applicants to the research team. Serves as a liaison between the families that suffer from the illness and the researchers who wish to study the susceptibility factors within families. 6. Provision of continued services for probands and their families until they are admitted to participate in research. 7. Represents the branch and protocols at national and local conferences as needed, making follow-up contacts with potential referral sources and prospective patients. Carol Rodeffer has been part of the original research team that launched protocol 95-M-0150, the Genetic Study of Schizophrenia. Ms. Rodeffer has developed specialized knowledge and skills pertinent to this protocol and has served as an associate investigator on the study since 1998. Ms. Rodeffer has continued work for the outpatient genetic study to date and has been the chief coordinator for the SCID/DNA arm of the study. Ms. Rodeffer has also recruited for the inpatient and outpatient programs and has screened for healthy volunteers for the Genetic study. Because of her long-standing and considerable knowledge of the illness of schizophrenia and expertise in working with the patients and their families, Ms. Rodeffer is uniquely qualified to be the sole source for continuing to recruit patients and to coordinate the SCID/DNA research team also allows for the continuity of contact, which is so necessary in building therapeutic research alliances for this target research population. There is no other member of the original research team available to carry out these duties and it is not practical to train a new social worker and expect them to perform at Ms. Rodeffer's level of expertise. Changing research coordinators at this point would result in unnecessary delays in services and risk a less than satisfactory delivery of service by an unknown service provider. The period of performance is for One (1) Base Year and One (1) Option Year. The acquisition is being conducted under simplified acquisition using FAR Part 12 procedures and exempt from the requirement of FAR Part 6, Competition Requirement. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals. Interested parties may identify their interest and capabilities in response to this synopsis. The determination by the Government not to compete the proposed contract based upon responses to this notice is solely with the discretion of the Government. Comments to this announcement, referencing synopsis number 2604639 may be submitted to the NIDA, Station Support/Simplified Acquisition Branch, 31 Center Drive, Room 1B59, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-2080 and Attention: Jasmine Snoddy, Contract Specialist or email at Snoddyj@mail.nih.gov.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: Bethesda, Maryland, 20892-2080, United States
- Zip Code: 20892-2080
- Zip Code: 20892-2080
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