R -- National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases Information Clearinghouse and Related Support Services

The National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is soliciting proposals for a contract to provide comprehensive support services for its Information Clearinghouse. The contract will encompass a range of services including cost-control management, project management, information operations, outreach and promotion, patient liaison services, and cost recovery efforts. This contract is anticipated to be a cost-reimbursement-plus-award fee type, spanning a five-year period starting around December 15, 2002, with an estimated total effort of 116,755 hours. The solicitation is a total small business set-aside under NAICS code 561110 for Office Administrative Services, with a size standard of $6 million. A mandatory qualification for bidders is that their location must be within a one-hour roundtrip commute of the NIH facility in Bethesda, Maryland. The official solicitation, NIH-NIAMS-03-01, will be available electronically approximately 15 days after the notice date, and proposals must be submitted by about July 8, 2002. Interested parties are responsible for downloading the solicitation and tracking any amendments via the NIH website or the federal contract opportunities portal. Further inquiries can be directed to the NIH Contracts Management Branch.