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Title

Strideway System for the Cellular Engineering Current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP) Facility

• Product Service Code: 6640


• NAICS Code: 334519


• Place of Performance:

Bethesda, MD 20892

USA

POTS: 23-007272

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 to Tekscan Inc. Boston, Massachusetts on a sole source basis to provide a Strideway device for testing patients for the cGMP facility at the NIH Clinical Center (CC).

Strideway is the leading technology for measuring the intersection of pressure and gait. What this means essentially is that the high-resolution measurement on pressure mats can interface with temporal measurements to establish how pressure moves over time. This is useful in measuring the way that people walk in health and disease states, as well as longitudinally, such as before and after treatment.

This device will allow for a new outcome in a planned clinical protocol to incorporate functional outcomes to pain research. This is a critical part of developing outcomes that go beyond pain and subjective ratings and focus on outcomes that could be indicative of functional improvements — that is, we can interrogate how and when pain interferes with walking, and whether interventions aimed at pain (in conditions where pain is a major component of dysfunction) could show an improvement in walking as an outcome.

This could be important in cases where patients are distressed by functional impairments that the pain imposes on daily living. The Tekscan Strideway system is a specialized medical and research device for measuring pressure, timing, and gait in human subjects. The proposed vendor, Tekscan Incorporation, is the only manufacturer that can provide this system.

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 Office of Purchasing and Contracts electronically to the attention of Shasheshe Goolsby, Contract Specialist, shasheshe.goolsby@nih.gov by May 17, 2023 12:00PM EST.

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