SUDAAN Software License Renewal

This is a notice of intent to award a non-competitive purchase order to RTI International (RTI), 3040 Cornwallis Road, P.O. Box 12194, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709-2194 for the renewal of annual SUDAAN software licenses to be used by biomedical researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This requirement will be awarded to RTI based upon the authority at Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Subpart 13.3 and 6.302-1(a)(2), as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This requirement is being awarded by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) for the Center for Information Technology (CIT), NIH. The services are required for a one-year period (05/01/2012-04/30/2013. NIH requires SUDAAN software maintenance to support its mission for basic research. NIH researchers use SUDAAN to analyze clustered data, including complex sample surveys, randomized experiments, and epidemiological studies. SUDAAN provides modeling procedures which include both linear and multinomial-logistic models. SUDAAN fits marginal or population-averaged models using generalized estimating equations (GEE). SUDAAN is the only software package to offer all three popular robust variance estimation methods in its descriptive and modeling procedures: (1) Taylor series linearization (GEE for regression models), (2) Jackknife (with or without user-specified replicate weights), and (3) Balance Repeated Replication (BRR). Currently, all nine of SUDAAN's analytic procedures offer these three methods. Together, these procedures and techniques provide a powerful variety of analytic tools not available in any other commercially-available software product. In addition, a critical feature of SUDAAN is that it is available for a wide variety of computing platforms including PCs under Windows, PCs under Linux, and Sun workstations under Solaris. RTI has not authorized any other party to provide these software maintenance or technical support (help desk) services. These software licenses are mission-critical basic research. Support for these licenses is absolutely required. RTI is the only source capable of providing this support. Sources having the ability to provide a software product(s) and maintenance that include all of the functionalities described above shall provide clear and comprehensive information that supports their commercial software product and maintenance support. RESPONSES ARE DUE BY 12:00 PM LOCAL PREVAILING TIME ON April 18, 2012, AND SHALL BE SENT VIA E-MAIL TO: Cara Calimano, 301-496-6127, Email: Cc436e@nih.gov Point of Contact The Point of Contact for this solicitation is Cara Calimano, 301-496-6127, Email: Cc436e@nih.gov.