Solicitation: 75N98019D00018-75N91019F00129
Contract: 75N98019D00018
The purpose of this Task Order is to provide scientific IT project management, project control, and contract administration to enhance SRP’s acquisition of Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) Program pathology and radiology reports. The contractor provides expertise in discovery and analytic platforms in precision oncology, laboratory information management systems, machine-learning algorithms development, public health and research operations, pathology and radiology digital reports, processing of digital pathology and radiology images, text mining platforms for work with pathology and radiology reports, operationalization and integration of machine-learning algorithms, design, development, and deployment of dashboards and related tools, and health information messaging systems such as the Public Health Information Network Messaging System.
SRP is currently establishing a Pediatric Cancer Whole Slide Imaging Pilot (pilot) for the Childhood Cancer Data Initiative (CCDI). The objective of the pilot is to establish the feasibility and best practices, including the logistical and technical pipelines, for acquiring digital Whole Slide Images (WSI) and associated metadata of diagnostic microscopic slides. SRP requires technical expertise to support planning for a technical pipeline for implementation in the Pediatric Cancer Whole Slide Imaging Pilot.
Task Order number 75N91019F00129 titled “SEER Program Pathology and Radiology Reports Acquisition Enhancements” was competitively awarded to Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc. under NIH BPSS II multiple-award IDIQ contract number 75N98019D00018. This Task Order is Firm-Fixed-Price with a Base Period from May 13, 2019 through May 12, 2020 and three consecutive 12-month Option Periods.
The addition of technical expertise to support the Pediatric Cancer Whole Slide Imaging Pilot is estimated to increase the total Task Order value by $699,025.74. This change in total Task Order value is necessary to procure the same type and nature of technical requirements procured at contract award. The new work is simply increasing the magnitude of those technical requirements to cover the specific pilot work that was not contemplated at time of award. Therefore, in accordance with FAR 16.505b(2)(C), an exception to the fair opportunity process is in the best interest of economy and efficiency because it is a logical follow-on to an order already issued under the contract and all awardees were given a fair opportunity to be considered for the original order.
