COLLECTION OF DATA ON DOSES TO MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC EXPOSED TO PATIENTS TREATED WITH IODINE-131

SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE THE U. S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION (NRC) is issuing this Sources Sought Synopsis as a means of conducting market research or as a market survey to determine the availability and potential technical capability of the business community to provide all management, supervision, administration, and labor for the COLLECTION OF DATA ON DOSES TO MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC EXPOSED TO PATIENTS TREATED WITH IODINE-131: 1) Measure External Doses to Selected Members of the Public; 2) Measure Internal Doses to Selected Members of the Public; 3) Time and Motion Study; 4) Analysis of Data and Final Report; and 5) Technical Support. Services are to be provided to the NRC in Rockville, Maryland. The applicable North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code assigned to this procurement is 541712. THERE IS NO SOLICITATION AT THIS TIME. This request for capability information does not constitute a request for proposal; submission of any information in response to this market survey is purely voluntary; the Government assumes no financial responsibility for any costs incurred. The purpose of this announcement is to provide potential sources the opportunity to submit information regarding their capabilities to perform work for the NRC free of conflict of interest (COI). For information on NRC COI regulations, visit NRC Acquisition Regulation Subpart 2009.5 (http://www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/contracting/48cfr-ch20.html). All interested parties, including all categories of small businesses (small businesses, small disadvantaged businesses, 8(a) firms, women-owned small businesses, service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses, and HUBZone small businesses) are invited to submit a response. The capabilities package submitted by a vendor should demonstrate the firm's ability, capability, and responsibility to perform the principal components of work listed below. The package should also include past performance/experience regarding projects of similar scope listing the project title, general description, the dollar value of the contract, and name of the company, agency, or government entity for which the work was performed. Organizations responding to this market survey should keep in mind that only focused and pertinent information is requested. If significant subcontracting or teaming is anticipated in order to deliver technical capability, organizations should address the administrative and management structure of such arrangements. Organizations responding to this market survey should keep in mind that only focused and pertinent information is requested. Submission of additional materials such as glossy brochures or videos is discouraged. BACKGROUND: Radioactive iodine, mainly the isotope Iodine-131, is used in the diagnosis and treatment of several medical conditions, the primary ones in the present context being treatment of hyperthyroidism and thyroid cancer following thyroidectomy. The importance of these conditions arises from the fact that their treatment protocols generally call for administration of relatively large doses of Iodine-131, and such patients therefore pose the greatest potential for exposure of others. Patients are often released from the hospital following treatment if they meet the release conditions specified in the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's (NRC) Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Title 10, Part 35.75, "Release of individuals containing unsealed byproduct material or implants containing byproduct material." The basic criterion underlying the release conditions is that "the total effective dose equivalent to any other individual from exposure to the released individual is not likely to exceed 5 mSv (0.5 rem)." MANDATORY QUALIFYING CRITERIA: The contractor shall have established an "institutional review board" Title 21 of the Code of Federal Regulations Part 50, which is a panel of experts that approves clinical trials and is required by the federal regulations. MARKET RESEARCH QUESTIONS: If your organization has the potential capacity to perform these contract services, please provide the following information: 1) Organization name, address, email address, Web site address and telephone number. 2) What size is your organization with respect to NAICS code 541712 (i.e. "small" or "other than small")? If your organization is a small business under the aforementioned NAICS code, what type of small business (i.e. small disadvantaged business, woman-owned small business, economically disadvantaged woman-owned small business, veteran-owned small business, service-disabled veteran-owned small business, 8(a), or HUBZone small business? Specify all that apply. 3) Although no geographic restriction is anticipated, if responding organizations are located outside the Washington Metropolitan area (Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia), indicate how the organization would coordinate with the NRC program office located in Rockville, Maryland to provide the support services. 4) Does your organization have experience providing dose measurements and analysis on human subjects? If so, please list and describe those contracts (contract number, contract type, contract value, description of supplies and services included in the scope, period of performance, etc.) and indicate your organization's role (prime contractor, first tier subcontractor, and/or supplier). 5) Indicate whether your organization provides any radiological research on existing Federal Government contracts (i.e., GSA Federal Supply Schedule contracts or Government-wide Acquisition Contracts) that the NRC could order from, providing the contract number(s) and indicate what is currently available for ordering from each contract. 6) Has your company worked for any of the licensee's regulated (http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/cfr/) by the NRC in the past year? 7) Has your company previously brought to the NRC any potential organizational conflict of interest issues with NRC? If so, how were they resolved? Interested firms responding to this Sources Sought Synopsis are encouraged to structure capability statements in the order of the area of consideration noted above. All capability statements sent in response to this notice must be submitted electronically, via e-mail, to Claudia Melgar, at Claudia.Melgar@nrc.gov, in either Microsoft Word or Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF), within eighteen (18) calendar days from the date of publication of this notice. This market survey is being conducted through the FedBizOpps to reach the widest possible audience and to gather current market information. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: No current incumbent contractor. DISCLAIMER AND NOTES: Any organization responding to this notice should ensure that its response is complete and sufficiently detailed to allow the Government to determine the organization's potential capability and capacity to perform the subject work. Respondents are advised that the Government is under no obligation to acknowledge receipt of the information received or provide feedback to respondents with respect to any information submitted. After a review of the responses received, a pre-solicitation synopsis and solicitation may be published in Federal Business Opportunities. However, responses to this notice will not be considered adequate responses to a solicitation.