SOURCES SOUGHT
D -- Expert software system and data for food and substantces exposure - Draft RFI
- Notice Date
- 3/20/2015
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541512
— Computer Systems Design Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, Food and Drug Administration, Office of Acquisitions and Grants Services, 5630 Fishers Lane, Room 2129, Rockville, Maryland, 20857-0001
- ZIP Code
- 20857-0001
- Solicitation Number
- FDA-15-RFI-1145642
- Archive Date
- 4/18/2015
- Point of Contact
- Jacob A. O'Hatnick, Phone: 3018276758
- E-Mail Address
-
jacob.ohatnick@fda.hhs.gov
(jacob.ohatnick@fda.hhs.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- This a DRAFT SOW. It is not in its final form and may change substantially, or totally, if used in a solicitation. This is a Request For Information to obtain technical and/or business information and input from the marketplace for project planning purposes regarding the availability of existing or potential solutions for the following objective: Acquisition of an expert scientific and modeling software system and data for acute and longer-term assessments, allowing FDA scientists the ability to estimate exposure to nutrients, food and color additives, generally recognized as safe (GRAS) food ingredients and other substances (e.g., chemical contaminants, including naturally occurring toxicants) found in the diet, and to perform trend analyses. Background Acquisition of an expert scientific and modeling software system and data for acute and longer-term assessments, allowing FDA scientists the ability to estimate exposure to nutrients, food and color additives, generally recognized as safe (GRAS) food ingredients and other substances (e.g., chemical contaminants, including naturally occurring toxicants) found in the diet, and to perform trend analyses. General Instructions Responses to the RFI should not exceed 20 pages in length. A complete response to the RFI should include answers to all of the questions below. Please note that a respondent's failure to provide a complete response to a question will be interpreted to mean that it does not understand the question and does not demonstrate the capability to provide services required. Questions 0. Provide a brief corporate profile of your company to include the following: a. Organization's official name and dba name, if applicable; b. Length of time the Organization has been in business; c. Types of services provided by your Organization; d. Types of clients by industry (i.e. Federal, Commercial, Local Government, etc); e. Is the Organization, U.S. based or International; f. Is the Organization a subsidiary of another Organization; g. DUNS number and CAGE number; h. Organizations website address; i. Main point of contact name, phone number, and email address; j. SBA size designation information and small business concern type (if applicable); k. Number of employees in the organization; l. Organization's most recent annual receipts amount as defined by the SBA. 2. What is your Organization's experience relevant to the requirements described in the attached draft SOW. Please list any Federal Government, State and/or Local Government, and/or Commercial customers for projects that you have worked on that are similar in scope, size, and complexity. For each project identified, please provide the number of base users, the number of systems and applications supported, and the lines of source code developed. What is the estimated dollar value of these projects? 3. Do you have a physical location for your employees to perform the work that will allow your employees to remotely access the FDA networks; and are there physical access controls present? 4. Is the scope of the draft SOW clearly defined? Do you understand what FDA requires? If not, what information needs to be added, changed, and/or reworded in order to clarify the Government's requirements? Please provide the sections and page numbers. 5. What is your experience with analysis of food consumption data? 6. What are your experience estimating exposures based on food consumption data? 7. What is your experience with writing code to allow the straightforward and efficient manipulation of data from the following data sets: a. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) b. US Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) Food and Nutrient Database for Dietary Studies (FNDDS) c. NPD Group's National Eating Trends (NET) data Attachments: 1. Draft Statement of Work
- Web Link
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FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/HHS/FDA/DCASC/FDA-15-RFI-1145642/listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Address: FDA/CFSAN, College Park, Maryland, 20740, United States
- Zip Code: 20740
- Zip Code: 20740
- Record
- SN03674874-W 20150322/150320235137-997e62af8b5cd1dad62d2fdb11e38208 (fbodaily.com)
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