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This acquisition is being conducted under the authority of the FAR Subpart 13.106-1(b). Interested concerns capable of providing the same or similar products or services as described in this notice may submit a capability statement outlining their capabilities. Capability Statements must be received within the time set forth in this synopsis to be considered by the Government. A determination to compete this proposed contract based on responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information received will normally be considered. The contractor shall accredit the NIH Clinical Center at the National Institutes of Health as an institutional sponsor for graduate medical education nationally and provide requisite accreditation services for each of the 18 individual post-MD graduate medical education training programs supported by Institutes and Centers within the NIH Intramural Research Program, under the sponsorship of the NIH Clinical Clinical Center.
The Office of Clinical Research Training and Medical Education (OCRTME), established in 2007, supports the NIH Clinical Center's mission to train the next generation of biomedical researchers and clinician-scientists by providing superior clinical research training to individuals of varying education levels and professional backgrounds. Through the training opportunities administered and managed by OCRTME, high school students, graduate students, medical and dental students, experienced researchers, and health professionals both domestic and international have the opportunity to participate in programs and courses that provide exceptional professional growth experiences. Internal OCRTME constituents include NIH Institute/Center physicians-in-training, NIH Institute/Center level training program directors, administrators, and principal investigators, and NIH Clinical Center administrators. The NIH Clinical Center currently serves as the sponsoring institution for medical or surgical graduate medical education training programs accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), a 501(c)(3), not-for-profit organization that sets standards for graduate medical education programs and the institutions that sponsor them in the United States, and renders accreditation decisions based on compliance with these standards. The OCRTME provides administrative oversight of these graduate medical education training programs and ensures continuing accreditation of the NIH Clinical Center by the ACGME as the sponsoring institution for graduate medical education at the NIH solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement.
Each response should include the following Business Information:
a. DUNS.
b. Company Name, address, POC, Phone and Email address
c. Current GSA Schedules or NAICS codes appropriate to this Award.
d. Type of Company (i.e., small business, 8(a), woman owned, hubZone, veteran owned, etc.) as validated in System For Award Management (SAM). All offerors must register on the SAM located at http://www.sam.gov/portal/SAM/#1
e. Capability Statement
Comments to this announcement may be submitted to the Clinical Center, Office of Purchasing and Contracts, prior to the closing date specified in this announcement, electronically to the attention Lynda Cole, Contract Specialist, [email protected] by the due date and time marked in this notice.