Inactive

Performance will include intramural Research and Development (R&D) support services for the NHRC Operational Readiness Directorate (ORD) and its departments, which includes the Warfighter Performance ... Performance will include intramural Research and Development (R&D) support services for the NHRC Operational Readiness Directorate (ORD) and its departments, which includes the Warfighter Performance (WP) Department and Medical Modeling, Simulation and Mission Support (MMS) Department. This includes investigative studies that involve planning, coordinating, designing, and executing experimental protocols that meet with the overall mission of each department’s research objectives and/or overlapping efforts. The WP Department leverages science and technology to: maximize the operational performance and enhance warfighter resilience-both physiological and psychological; and to improve assessment, diagnosis, and advanced rehabilitation strategies to optimize warfighter reset to optimize mission readiness. The MMS Department performs medical modeling and simulation research for the DOD, homeland defense, humanitarian assistance, peace-keeping and disaster relief activities including casualty projection, medical planning factor development, identification of weapons effects both ground and shipboard-based, projection of resource requirements, database development and maintenance, and quality of life outcome studies. Performance in support of the WP Department may include: research support services in support of NHRC intramural research devoted to the development of new strategies for enhancing human performance including load carriage impact on injury and performance; thermoregulation as it relates to prevention of heat illness and return to duty from a heat injury; exposure to cold temperature and cold water operations; operations performed at altitude; surveillance markers of wounded or injured warfighters relative to biomechanics and cognitive function; defining patterns of resiliency to physical and psychological injury; mitigating the impact of insufficient sleep and fatigue; enhancing training strategies to improve post deployment behavioral health outcomes; evaluation and development of health and wellness strategies; evaluation of wounded warrior care; and establishing return-to-duty criteria for wounded service members. Performance in support of the MMS Department may include: research support services in support of NHRC intramural research devoted to the development and support services for research on casualty outcomes and modeling of casualty projections in support of operational medicine. It is heavily data driven and depends upon the collection, characterization, analysis, and reporting of data from multiple sources, including both in-house sources such as the Expeditionary Medical Encounter Database (EMED) and external sources such as the Military Health System (MHS), the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), civilian and homeland defense data, tactical data, operational data, and personnel data. Intramural human subject research (HSR) is expected under the task orders that will be issued under this base IDIQ contract. Research with human subjects shall not begin until the Contractor (and all subcontractors) obtains a Federal Wide Assurance (FWA) issued by the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). Over the course of the 60-month contract period of performance (POP)/ordering period, the Government anticipates using the inherent flexibility and responsiveness of a Single Award Task Order (SATO) Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract. The Government will be fully engaged with defining new requirements and deliverables for each new Statement of Work (SOW) and/or Performance Work Statement (PWS), as well as confirming the alignment of appropriate funding for the required POP of each task order. The cost type for each task order will be cost-plus-fixed-fee. The services required are non-personal, and task orders may be considered as severable or non-severable. The resultant base contract will have a period of performance of 60 months from the start date of services. This effort is considered a new requirement; there is not a legacy contract and therefore the right of first refusal concerning incumbent employees does not apply. If, for any reason, there are no successful proposals, the Government reserves the right to re-open the solicitation. This requirement will be solicited in accordance with FAR Part 15, utilizing full and open competition (no set-asides). A solicitation for this requirement is anticipated to be posted on or around 3 April 2020 to beta.SAM.gov. Solicitations are to be downloaded from beta.SAM.gov. No solicitations will be mailed. All proposals shall be submitted per the instructions set forth in the solicitation. Instructions for questions regarding this requirement will be outlined in the solicitation. No phone calls or faxes will be accepted. The Government reserves the right to change information included in this notice.