The National Institutes of Health, Office of Acquisitions Station Support Simplified Branch on behalf of the National Eye Institute (NEI) intends to negotitiate on a non competitive basis with Allama Iqbal Medical Research Centre. This acquisition will be processed under FAR Part 12 - Acquisition for Commercial Items and will be made pursuant to the authority of FAR 13.106-1 (b)(1) and FAR 13.501 (a)(1) to use Simplified Acquisition Procedure for commercial items.

The North American Industry Classification System Code for this acquisition is 541380 and the size standard is $12.0M.

The National Eye Institute requires the continuation of the study on family members affected with eye disease. This project will require that individual familly members be screened and clinically evaluated. Since the NEI does not have the resources necessary to conduct the on-site evaluations and develop family pedigrees, the NEI requests the services of a contractor, who must have a M.D. or Ph.D degree and specialized training and experience in the medical genetics of retinal degenerations.

No solicitations package will be issued. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive quotations; however, the Government will consider responses submitted to [email protected] on or before 10:00  AM ET May 6, 2011. All information furnished must be in writing and must contain sufficient detail. A detemination by the Government not to compete the proposed acquisition based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information received will normally be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. Please reference the announcement number NIH-OD-NOI-2036114 on all correspondence submitted by email. 

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