The Division of Occupational Safety and Health, Office of Research Services, National Institutes of Health (NIH) is conducting a market survey to determine the availability and capability of Small Businesses (e.g., small, small disadvantaged businesses, woman?owned businesses,8(a), HUB Zone small businesses, veteran-owned small businesses, service-disabled veteran owned small businesses etc) to staff and operate a comprehensive program for providing occupational medicine services to NIH employees and guest workers at the Bethesda campus; the NIH Animal Center at Poolesville, MD; rental buildings located in the surrounding metropolitan area; and research facilities in Frederick, MD; Baltimore, MD, Hamilton, MT. The applicable SIC is 621493 and the size standard is $9.0 million. The NIH requires staffing of the occupational medical service with personnel qualified to design, implement, and supervise a comprehensive occupational medical services program covering approximately 20,000 employees and guest workers. The Occupational Medical Service (OMS) program includes medical care, pre-employment and in-service medical and physical evaluations, preventive and health promotion programs, occupational health surveillance programs in support of the NIH research mission and employee assistance programs. The professional, ethical and technical responsibilities and standards necessary to conduct the occupational medical service programs requires the assignment and utilization of only those personnel whose performance will conform to the highest standards and ethics of the health care profession. Management and operation of the NIH OMS requires personnel who are thoroughly experienced in (1) providing diagnosis and emergency treatment of injuries, illnesses or exposures to hazardous materials (e.g. pathogens, radionuclide?s, toxic chemicals, carcinogens, that may result from NIH research and work operations; (2) recognizing and treating drug induced medical emergencies; (3) diagnosis and treatment of occupational exposures or infections associated with basic and clinical research programs dealing with human pathogens or zoonotic agents; (4) diagnosing and treating wounds inflicted by a wide range of laboratory animals; (5) diagnosis and treatment of animal induced allergies; (6) symptoms, tests, treatments and counseling requirements to manage individuals exposed to Human Immunodeficiency Virus and other bloodborne pathogens; (7) formulating and implementing hazard specific health surveillance programs that include appropriate provisions for confidentiality; (8) managing psychiatric emergencies that occur during the scheduled operating hours of the OMS clinic; (9) planning, coordinating and administering an employee assistance program to include counseling of individuals, group therapy, diagnosis and referral to community resources; and (10) designing and performing job or research specific pre-employment and in-service medical examinations, tests and procedures. The NIH requires OMS personnel to be well trained and experienced in (1) meeting the requirements of the U.S. Department of Labor Office of Workers' Compensation Programs; (2) planning, implementing and maintaining a system for administration of vaccines according to occupational hazards and as may be required for international travel by NIH employees; (3) developing and promoting health promotion and education programs (4) planning and conducting basic courses in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and Heartsaver (AED) techniques; (5) measuring, fitting and repairing plan and prescription (employee furnished prescription) safety glasses; (6) operating four auxiliary health units one full time, three one-day/week; and (7) development, implementation and maintenance of a comprehensive occupational health data base system consistent with current practices for: 1) maintaining individual medical records; 2) meeting confidentiality requirements; 3) recording and retrieving data related to routine programs (eg. surveillance); and 4) meeting other operational requirements. The staff required for the OMS program are divided into three categories: key personnel, professional and support. Key personnel are those individuals having primary responsibility for the overall management and supervision of the daily operations of the OMS. Professional staff are those individuals for who specific education, experience and training qualifies them to carry out general or specialized health care functions or activities. Support staff are those individuals who carry out the required technical and clerical activities attendant to an occupational medical service. The operating hours for the OMS are: Main Clinic (Building 10), Monday through Friday 7:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Principal Auxiliary Unit, Monday through Friday 8:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., the remaining Auxiliary Units are staffed on a rotating schedule. Routine OMS operations are not conducted on weekends, official Federal holidays, or when the Federal government is closed. The contract will be for a base of one year with 4, 12 month options. This synopsis is for information and planning purposes and is not to be considered for the purpose of detrermining whether sufficient businesses within any of the socio-economic programs possess the capabiity to fulfill the Government?s requirement and to ensure competition if a set-aside acquisition situation occurs. A determination by the Government not to compete this requirement as a set-aside based on responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Interested organizations must provide capability statement on the above requirement and provide NAICS codes and business size and status.d Capability statements may be emailed to
[email protected] by close of business 2/6/08.