The National Institutes of Health, Office of Acquisitions Station Support Simplified Acquisitions Branch on behalf of the National Eye Institute (NEI) intends to negotitate, on a non-competitive basis, with Allama Iqbal Medical Research Centre located at Jinnah Hospital , 4^th , Lahore PunJab 54550. 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 621511    and the size standard is $13.5M.

The National Eye Institute proposed to continue the study of family member with a history of recessive RP or hereditary cataract. Family members will be screened to identify affected and unaffected conditions, obtaining ophthalmic examinations, and blood samples for mutations in genes known to cause RP and hereditary cataract will be obtained.

No solicitation 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 June 6, 2011. All information furnished must be in writing and must contain sufficient detail. A determination 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 NOI-2036114 on all correspondence submitted by email.