ANT- NEURO MOBILE EQUIPMENT.

• Product Service Code: Q510
• NAICS Code: 541715
• Place of Performance: NIH CLINICAL CENTER - Translational Biobehavioral and Health Disparities Branch (TBHD)

POTS: 23-009950

Description

This is a notice of intent, not a request for a quotation. A solicitation document will not be issued and quotations will not be requested.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) intends to award a fixed price contract for a mobile brain and body imaging equipment and services from the company ANT Neuro, North America, Inc, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19103-1096 UEI: DJ8XU1YEDWJ6 on a sole source basis to provide Feasibility Pilot Study to Measure Biobehavioral Markers in Cooking for the Translational Biobehavioral and Health Disparities Branch (TBHD) at the NIH Clinical Center (CC).

The NIH Clinical Translational Biobehavioral & Health Disparities Branch (TBHD) is involved in the study of psychological and neural factors involved in cooking behaviors in order to develop adaptive and potentially therapeutic dietary behavior interventions. As part of the research, the research team will conduct feasibility testing of mobile body and brain imaging and measurement while professional cooks are engaged in a cooking task. This project is an initial step for the Section on Dietary Behaviors and Biopsychosocial Health laboratory in determining biobehavioral factors involved in dietary behaviors.

ANT Neuro, North America, Inc. has been an established mobile brain and body imaging company since 1997. The company’s main business and mission centers around complete solutions for recording and analysis of neurophysiological signals in neurological, psychological, physiological research and related clinical applications. The company’s products are cited within the academic literature. The company provides a comprehensive monitoring system with multiple synchronized modalities including electroencephalogram, electrocardiogram and respiration monitoring required for the feasibility study.

This acquisition is being conducted using policies unique to the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 13 – Simplified Acquisition Procedures, Subpart 13.106-1(b)(1), For purchases not exceeding the simplified acquisition threshold (SAT), contracting officers may solicit from one source if the contracting officer determines that the circumstance of the contract action deem only one source reasonably available. Contracts awarded using FAR Part 13-Simplified Acquisition Procedures are exempt from the requirements of FAR Part 6-Competition Requirements.

Interested parties may identify their interest and capabilities in response to this posting. The determination by the Government not to compete the proposed requirement based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government.

Comments to this announcement, referencing this posting number, may be submitted to the CC, Office of Purchasing and Contracts, prior to the closing date specified in this announcement, electronically to the attention of Gregory Noland, Contract Specialist, gregory.noland@nih.gov by the due date (09/20/2023) marked in this notice.

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