U -- Nutrition Evidence Library Training and Coordination

The USDA Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion intends to award a sole source contract to The American Dietetic Association (ADA) to train and tutor off-site abstractors and the coordination of populating scientific research data into an electronic database, namely the Nutrition Evidence Library (NEL). However, technical content is the sole responsibility of the USDA. NEL is a Federal database that stores and categorizes scientific data for use by the 2010 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC). ADA has expertise entering data, training and tutoring Analysts on the Evidence Analysis Library, which mirrors NEL?s framework. ADA has the requisite expertise necessary to use electronic tools specific to evidence analysis methodology for project management of abstractors, assignment, communication, document tracking, invoicing and report generation. This is not a Request for Quotation. Firms not meeting the requirement to provide a qualifications package will not be considered further. Eligible firms/organizations with the requisite experience, minimum of 4 years, can submit their qualifications to Patricia Palmer, 3101 Park Center Drive, Room 228, Alexandria, VA 22302 or electronically to [email protected] no later than COB April 7, 2008.