The National Institutes of Health, Clinical Center is conducting a market survey/sources sought to help determine the availability and technical capability of qualified businesses, veteran-owned small businesses, service disabled veteran-owned small businesses and/or HUBZONE small businesses capable of serving the needs mentioned below. This market survey/sources sought announcement is not a request for proposals and the Government is not committed to award a contract pursuant to this announcement. The information from this market research is for planning purposes only and will assist the Government in planning its acquisition strategy. This is strictly market research and the Government will not entertain questions concerning this market research. The Government will not pay for any costs incurred in the preparation of information for responding to this market survey.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH), Clinical Center (CC) the Pharmacy Department; Pharmaceutical Development Section (PDS) has a requirement to procure the services of contract consultant(s) to provide computer system support services for applications and databases as required for maintaining the Investigational Drug Management System (IDMS) and related ancillary systems.

The North American Industrial Classification is 541511 and the size standard is $24,000,000.00

The vendor is to provide maintenance and support for the following systems and programs essential to the IDMS. The following is a list of the Tasks and related maintenance, support and development capabilities required by contractor personnel.
Scope of Work
Task 1: Assessment, Maintenance and Development of existing workgroup Systems. The contractor shall maintain the workgroup systems identified in section 4. Maintenance shall include upgrading, converting, rewriting, testing, developing and documenting functional requirements, system specifications, procedures, routines, data dictionaries, input files, output files, layouts, screens, reports and all other areas commonly associated with standard system maintenance. The contractor shall enhance the workgroup systems identified in section 5 as required. Development shall include pre-project (technical) support, analyzing systems requirements, high level programming design, programming, software build and integration, program testing, support application deployment, support application maintenance and quality control.
Task 2: Computer Systems Setup, Configuration and Troubleshooting. The contractor shall set-up and configure all clients and servers of the systems identified in section 4. The contractor shall troubleshoot all networking, operating systems, and application software issues on computer systems identified for operation of the systems.
Task 3: Computer System Assessment and Development for other systems. The contractor shall analyze, coordinate, manage, develop, test, install, and maintain other systems as directed by the government. The contractor shall be capable of providing the following services at the request of the government:
System assessments,
System requirements analysis,
System specifications,
Interface design,
Interface implementation,
System design,
System development,
Report development,
System back-up implementation,
Documentation development, and
Software conversion.
Systems Maintenance.
The contractor shall maintain the following CC systems:
1. Investigational Drug Management System (IDMS)
2. IDMS data feeds
3. IDMS database

Systems Development.
The contractor shall develop additional functionality for the following CC systems as required by the government:
1. Investigational Drug Management System (IDMS)
2. IDMS data feeds
IDMS database
In addition the personnel assigned need to have the requisite experience in but not limited to the following operating and web systems:
Specific Experience. All contractor personnel shall have 6 or more years of recent experience with each of the following software systems and tools:

Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise versions 11, 12 and 15.
Erwin Data Modeler
Web Objects
Perl for Solaris
Sun Java development
Objective C
Architecture and Design in Large-scale diverse Network Environments
Service-Oriented Architecture experience
User Requirements Definition experience
Business Process Re-engineering experience
Java and J2EE architecture, design, and development experience
JBoss Application Server experience
Web and network protocol familiarity
Microsoft SQL Server development experience
Sybase SQL development experience
PERL scripting
Web and network protocol familiarity
XML familiarity
Microsoft .NET development experience
UNIX familiarity

The contractor response shall also include any other specific and relevant information related to the requirements of this project that will enable the Government to determine the capabilities of the company to perform the specialized requirements described in this synopsis. Interested organizations must demonstrate and document in any response submitted, to this market survey extensive experience with and the ability to perform all of the specialized requirements elsewhere described.
 
This notice is a market survey and is for information and planning purposes only and does not commit the Government to a contractual agreement. THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL. The Government will not award a Contract based upon Contractor responses to this announcement. The Government shall not assume any costs for preparing or submitting any information in response to the market survey or the Government's use of the information. Any proprietary information should be clearly identified as "proprietary information".
Contractors must send written capability responses by August 15, 2011 to Mr. Brian Lind, Contract Specialist at [email protected] or by mail at the address below. For any questions, please contact Mr. Brian Lind at 301-402-0735.
Mr. Brian Lind
Contract Specialist
Clinical Center
Office of Purchasing and Contracts
10 Center Drive
Building 10, Room 1-1444, MSC 1604
Bethesda, MD 20892-1604