Notice ID: ADVFY20RD100002
Contract: N6264520D5020
“The intention of this requirement is to provide non-personal research support services to the NHRC in San Diego, CA. Performance will include intramural R&D support services for the NHRC Operational Readiness Directorate (ORD) and its departments, 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.
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 recommending 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 DoD 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.
The Government contemplates award of a Single Award Task Order Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) Cost Plus Fixed Fee contract resulting from this solicitation.
Intramural Human Subject Research is expected under the task orders that will be issued under this base IDIQ contract. An award containing research with human subjects will not be executed unless the Contractor (and all appropriate subcontractors) holds an active Federal Wide Assurance (FWA) issued by the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) …”
