Project Management and Technical Support for CTSA Program
The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), on behalf of the National Institute of National Center for Research Resources (NCRR), is conducting a market survey to determine the availability and potential technical capability of small business organizations interested in this requirement. This acquisition may be solicited as full and open or as small business set-aside including 8(a), HubZone, and Service Disabled Veterans as defined by the Small Business Act. The applicable NAICS code is 541710 and the size standard is 500 employees. Small Business sources are sought that possess the capability to provide support services described below for the NCRR. The new contract is anticipated to be awarded on September 30, 2007 for a period of five years. As part of the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research process to Reengineer the Clinical Research Enterprise, NIH issued an RFA for institutional Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA). The purpose of the CTSA initiative, which is a joint NCRR and NIH Roadmap activity, is to assist institutions to forge a uniquely transformative, novel, and integrative academic home for Clinical and Translational Science. These new Clinical and Translational Science entities are expected to serve as a magnet that concentrates basic, translational, and clinical investigators, community clinicians, clinical practices, networks, professional societies, and industry to facilitate the development of new professional interactions, programs, and research projects. It is anticipated that these new institutional arrangements, coupled with innovative advanced degree programs, will foster the development of a new discipline of Clinical and Translational Science that will be both broader and more pervasive than the classical and separate domains of translational research and clinical investigation. When fully implemented in 2012, about 60 CTSA programs will be supported. As part of this cooperative initiative, CTSA awardees will participate in trans-CTSA Steering Committees in areas of broad interest to discuss and address national issues through sharing and cooperation. Although NIH anticipates that awardees will differ in their internal structures and emphasis, informatics, human protection, training, and clinical service are envisioned to be areas of shared interest with national level Steering Committees for each area. Project management and technical support of these Steering Committees in their cooperative activities will be necessary for accomplishment of shared projects. The purpose of this acquisition is to seek small business organizations capable of providing project management and technical support for the institutional CTSA program.
