SOLICITATION NOTICE
A -- Development of Newborn Screening Quality Assurance Materials
- Notice Date
- 6/22/2016
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 541690
— Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Procurement and Grants Office (Atlanta), 2920 Brandywine Road, Room 3000, Atlanta, Georgia, 30341-4146
- ZIP Code
- 30341-4146
- Solicitation Number
- 2016-Q-65273
- Archive Date
- 7/22/2016
- Point of Contact
- Philip L. Robinson, Phone: 7704882857, Vallerie M Redd, Phone: 770-488-2845
- E-Mail Address
-
KKQ4@CDC.GOV, gfj3@cdc.gov
(KKQ4@CDC.GOV, gfj3@cdc.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Centers for Environmental Health, Division of Laboratory Sciences (DLS), intends to award a sole source firm-fixed 12 month purchase order to the Sequoia Foundation, 2166 Avenida De La Playa STE D, La Jolla California 92037. The contract is to support a project coordinator to serve as a liaison between the CDC, the California Department of Public Health, and medical specialty clinics that provide care to people who have newborn screening conditions. The statutory authority for this sole source acquisition is U.S.C. 2304 (c) (1) in accordance with FAR Part 6.302-1 only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy the agency requirements. The NAICS code for this procurement is 541690 Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services with a size standard of $15 million. The Sequoia Foundation is the only organization that has a partnership with the California Department of Public Health that will allow CDC to obtain blood, with appropriate consent, from people who have newborn screening conditions or their parents. This blood is to be used by the CDC Newborn Screening and Molecular Biology Branch (NSMBB) to create newborn screening quality assurance materials. The California Department of Public Health Institutional Review Board (IRB) names Sequoia Foundation as the administrative point of contact and project partner. There is no other organization identified in the IRB that would be able to partner with California Department of Public Health to do the blood collection. To get another organization approved at the state level to collect the blood would take 12-18 months. Since 2011, CDC has worked with the Sequoia Foundation to receive blood from more than 100 patients with cystic fibrosis or their parents. These blood samples have successfully been used to create newborn screening quality assurance materials for cystic fibrosis newborn screening tests. The foundation's relationship with the California Department of Public Health, is uniquely able to provide access to a diverse set of specialty clinics and a population of people who have newborn screening conditions or their parents. The CDC seeks to expand its request of the foundation to collect blood from people who have any of the newborn screening conditions listed on the HHS-endorsed Recommended Uniform Screening Panel (RUSP) or their parents. No solicitation will be posted to FedBizOpps. This notice of intent is not a request for proposal. A determination by the government not to compete the proposed purchase order based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Contracting Officer. Interested parties who believe they possess the capability to satisfy this requirement should submit a capability statement demonstrating their ability to meet the requirement. Information received will be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. All responses should be emailed to Mr. Philip Robinson at KKQ4@CDC.GOV using solicitation number 2016-Q-65273 in the subject line no later than 10:00 am Eastern Standard Time, July 07, 2016.
- Web Link
-
FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/HHS/CDCP/PGOA/2016-Q-65273/listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Address: 4770 Buford Highway, Atlanta, Georgia, 30341, United States
- Zip Code: 30341
- Zip Code: 30341
- Record
- SN04157552-W 20160624/160622234106-7cb3a8dccf026ef456a96a084e96971c (fbodaily.com)
- Source
-
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