R--THIS IS A PRE-AWARD NOTIFICATION FOR: Patent Legal Services in Support of the Office of General Counsel, Naval Medical Research Center, Enterprise APC

THE GOVERNMENT INTENDS TO AWARD A FFP CONTRACT IN THE AMOUNT OF $95,000.00 TO FAYE SHARPE, LLP. ANTICIPATED AWARD DATE IS 28 JULY 2010. The contractor shall provide patent legal services to support the NMRC Office of Counsel for Intellectual Property. A sign ificant majority of the assigned work Will be to assist the Office of Counsel for Intellectual Property in preparing patent applications for obtaining non-U.S. (i.e., foreign) intellectual property rights and responding to office actions. Assigned work will also include monitoring and maintaining patent applications and patents for the Office of Counsel. Additional assigned work will be in drafting patentability reports concerning Government inventions and patent applications for filing with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), including both U.S. Patent applications and patent applications filed under the Patent Corporation Treaty (PCT) and in responding to office actions. The contractor's services will be performed in support of the NMRC Office of Counsel for Intellectual Property in response to work assignments communicated to it by the Contracting Officer's Representative (COR). Work assignments will be determined by the needs of the NMRC Counsel for Intellectual Property based upon the quantity of workload and requirements in technology areas for which NMRC does not maintain specialized in-house expeltise or where expertise in patent laws of specific countries is required.