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Pre-solicitation Synopsis – NOTICE OF INTENT TO SOLE SOURCE This is a Notice of Intent, Not a Request for Proposals. The Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) intends to negot... Pre-solicitation Synopsis – NOTICE OF INTENT TO SOLE SOURCE This is a Notice of Intent, Not a Request for Proposals. The Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) intends to negotiate a 5 year single award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract with Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL) to develop an online and mobile phone-based application. The Resource Information Tracking and Medical Communications Application (RITCA) will serve as a disaster response tool for a regional area within the broad range of the medical responder community. This application will allow for synchronous and asynchronous communication for peer-to-peer consultation between clinical providers, serve as a repository for clinical capacity and capability data and present this data in a dashboard, and allow for communication of Essential Elements of Information (EEI) across health care and federal, state, and local response personnel. Statutory authority: 41 United States Code (U.S.C.) 253(c)(3)(B) as set forth in Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 6.302-3 Industrial mobilization; engineering, developmental or research capability; or expert services. This authority allows an exception to full and open competition when it is necessary to award a contract to a particular source in order to: “establish or maintain an essential engineering, research, or development capability to be provided by an educational or other nonprofit institutional or a federally funded research and development center.” [Ref. FAR 6.302-3(2)(ii)]. Using this authority is appropriate due to BARDA’s need to maintain an essential capability for engineering and developmental work to produce a pilot in a regional disaster health response system and demonstrate its full functionality. JHU/APL is a nonprofit organization operating as a division of The Johns Hopkins University of Baltimore, Maryland. JHU/APL has been designated by the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research & Engineering (ASD RE) as a University Affiliated Research Center (UARC). As a UARC, JHU/APL is required to conduct its operations in accordance with the UARC Management Plan. JHU/APL was organized to develop a critical wartime technology in 1942 and conducts programs for the Government that protect our Nation and advance its vision in research and space science. JHU/APL’s mission is to solve complex research, engineering, and analytical problems that present critical challenges to the nation. Its expertise includes highly qualified and technically diverse teams with hands-on operational knowledge of the military and security environments, as well as world class facilities. The work envisioned for BARDA will fall within the core competencies approved by the ASD RE to be provided by the institution. JHU/APL meets BARDA’s science, research, development and engineering needs. JHU/APL has: The ability to provide needed essential engineering, research, and development capabilities and leverage novel and emerging technologies to meet the required objectives. Specifically, JHU/APL has experience with C4ISR/IO and health security modeling, both relevant to the proposed project. Experience in applying C4ISR/IO principles and techniques will allow JHU/APL to develop an application capable of functioning in high stress, low-tech and low-power environments, creating a reliable communication chain up to the federal level for relaying actionable intelligence, and integrating disparate information systems to facilitate the creation of a common operational picture during a Mass Casualty Incident. Information Technology (C4ISR/IO) is one for the core competencies approved by the ASD RE. This includes research, development, and assessment of defense command, control, communications, computer, intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, information operations, cyber operations, and information technologies; application of these technologies to battlefield information management, intelligence systems and information warfare systems; operational evaluations and vulnerability assessments of current and planned systems; development of system architectures to improve intelligence systems and to improve the effectiveness and coordination and reduce vulnerability among forces; and demonstrations and testing of these systems. Additionally, JHU/APL is a University Affiliated Research Center (UARC), allowing operation in the public interest, free from real or perceived conflicts of interest. The development of this pilot requires access to a number of sensitive government and medical data systems. This, combined with the research and development nature of project, makes a UARC necessary for executing this pilot. The proposed contract action is for supplies or services for which the Government intends to continue with one source under authority FAR 6.302-3. However, interested sources may identify their interest and capability by submitting a capability statement (5 page limit) before or on the response date. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed requirement based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. The capability statement will be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. The RFP will be available electronically at a later date upon request. This notice does not commit the Government to award a contract.