THE AGRICULTURAL HEALTH STUDY (FIELD STATIONS) RELEASE DATE: April 11, 2003 NOTICE: NOT-CA-03-021 National Cancer Institute (NCI) (http://www.nci.nih.gov/) The Occupational Epidemiology Branch (OEB), National Cancer Institute (NCI) is seeking contractors to perform the above named project. This contract will maintain field stations for the prospective cohort study in North Carolina and/or Iowa. A cohort of approximately 59,000 has been established in Iowa and 30,000 in North Carolina that can be followed prospectively for 10 years or more to obtain detailed information on agricultural exposures, diet, cooking practices, and other factors of etiologic interest for cancer and other diseases. Field Stations shall be located in North Carolina and Iowa, states with population-based cancer registries and pesticide applicator registries. The entire cohort will include farm owner/operators (approximately 53,000), their spouses (approximately 30,000), and commercial applicators (approximately 6,000 - all from Iowa). A new questionnaire will be administered to the cohort under this contract to supplement questionnaire information previously collected from this cohort when it was assembled. The types of support to be provided by the Contractor in the conduct of the studies include: study re-initiation and liaison, use of study materials (e.g., questionnaires), CATI interviewing, other data collection (e.g., pathology records, death certificates), data preparation, data processing, drawing buccal "swish and spit" samples from selected members of the cohort in a non-clinical setting, study monitoring, quality control, and reporting/communicating recent research results to the cohort by direct mailings, website postings, and short articles in farm journals. These tasks may vary. In addition, the contractors shall be required to perform four options for special studies under the contract. (TO BE EXERCISED IF FUNDS BECOME AVAILABLE) The estimated level of effort, including all options, to be provided is 257,684 total direct labor hours for the entire period of performance for the entire cohort developed at all Field Stations. Direct labor hours at individual Field Stations should be estimated in proportion to the number of cohort members that have been enrolled into the study in Iowa or North Carolina. The Contractor must meet the following three Mandatory Qualification Criteria at the time of receipt of the Final Proposal Revisions (FPR) for their proposal to be considered any further by the Contracting Officer: 1) The Contractor must document that they have received authorization from the appropriate state official to access the cancer registry of North Carolina and/or Iowa for the purpose of matching the Agricultural Health Study Cohort to the registry on an annual basis. 2) The offerors seeking the Field Station contract must demonstrate/document that they have a field office in North Carolina and/or Iowa with all the resources necessary to conduct this study by the anticipated start date of the contract. 3) The Contractor must document the willingness of the state and local extension service and the state department of Agriculture, to support the activities enumerated in the scope of work of this RFP. All responsible sources meeting these criteria are encouraged to submit an offer and will be considered by the National Cancer Institute. The contract will be a cost-reimbursement, completion type for a 60-month period. It is anticipated that the solicitation package will be available on/about April 15, 2003, with proposals due 45 days after the issue date of the RFP. Award is anticipated by December 30, 2003. No collect calls will be accepted. The detailed RFP may be accessed via the Research Contracts Branch (RCB) website: http://rcb.nci.nih.gov/ under "Current Requests For Proposals. INQUIRIES For further information contact: Karen L. McFarlane Contracting Officer Epidemiology and Support Section, RCB National Cancer Institute Executive Plaza South, Room 6114 6120 Executive Boulevard, MSC 7196 Rockville, MD 20892-7196 Voice: (301) 435-3782 Fax: (301) 480-0241 Email: km63k@nih.gov
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