Oversight and Management Study

This is a Notice of Intent to Award a Sole Source Purchase Order by the Clinical Center 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda Maryland 20892 using simplified acquisition procedures for commercial items (FAR Part 12) to procure service for the Bioethics Department to provide oversight and management study of parental permission and the adolescent assent process. Sources with expertise in area of principal investigators of protocols enrolling adolescent’s of research studies that can conduct investigation are limited. The Government intends to award a sole source contract in accordance with FAR Part 13.5 for the above service to Ben Wilfond, MD at Seattle Children’s Hospital, 4800 Sand Point Way NE, Seattle Washington, 98105. Under the authority of FAR 6.302-1, only one responsible source and no other will satisfy the agency requirements. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) CODE is 622110. All responses received within 10 days of the publication of this synopsis will be considered by the Government. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed purchase order based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. The intended period of performance for this requirement is for 8 months after award.