CONTENT DEVELOPMENT, MANUFACTURING, MARKETING & NATIONWIDE CLASSROOM DISTRIBUTION OF SCIENCE EDUCATION MATERIALS
This is a notice issued on behalf of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, Office of Communications and Public Liaison by the Office of Logistics and Acquisition Operations (OLAO), Office of Acquisitions, NIH, DHHS, UNITED STATES.
This is a Sources Sought notice. This is NOT a solicitation for proposals, proposal abstracts, or quotations. There is no solicitation available at this time.
The purpose of this notice is to obtain information regarding : (1) the availability and capability of all qualified business sources who produce and disseminate educational content; (2) whether they are other than small, small businesses; HUBZone small businesses; service-disabled, veteran-owned small businesses; 8(a) small businesses; veteran-owned small businesses; woman-owned small businesses; or small disadvantaged businesses; and (3) their size classification according to the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for the proposed acquisition. Your response to the information requested will assist the Government in determining the appropriate acquisition method.
The NAICS for this requirement is 511120-Periodical Publishers with a size standard of 1000 employees.
Attached to this Sources Sought is a draft Statement of Work.
Responses must reference and include the following:
(1) Name and Address of the vendor,
(2) Size and type of business
(3) Point of contact with name, title, phone, fax and email,
(4) DUNS number,
(5) Vendor's capability statement (no more than 5 pages) addressing the draft Statement of Work.
(6) List of organizations to whom the same or similar types of equipment have been previously provided to include contract/order number, dollar value, name, and the phone number of the Contracting Officer/Specialist,
ALL INFORMATION SUBMITTED IN RESPONSE TO THIS ANNOUNCEMENT MUST BE
RECEIVED ON OR BEFORE THE CLOSING DATE OF May 31, 2019 by 2PM EST
Please submit Capability Statements through email to Mr. Anthony Brown at email address brownant@mail.nih.gov.
All questions and/or comments must be in writing and emailed to Mr. Anthony Brown at brownant@mail.nih.gov. Comments and questions will NOT be answered, but will assist in creating a solicitation for this requirement.
Disclaimer and Important Notes.
This notice is for information and planning purposes only and does not commit the Government to any contractual agreement. This is not a Request for Proposals. The Government DOES NOT intend to award a contract based on responses under this announcement. Interested parties shall not be reimbursed for costs associated with preparation of their responses. Any proprietary information should be so marked. 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 qualifications to perform the services. Responses to this notice will not be considered adequate responses to any possible future solicitation.
Anthony Brown, Contract Specialist, Phone 301-402-2847, Fax 301-435-8513, Email brownant@mail.nih.gov
