Procurement Summary
Country : USA
Summary : Digital Annotation of Whole-Mount Radical Prostatectomy Histopathology Slides
Deadline : 13 Aug 2024
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Notice Type : Tender
TOT Ref.No.: 105423200
Document Ref. No. : 75N91024Q00155
Competition : ICB
Financier : Self Financed
Purchaser Ownership : Public
Tender Value : Refer Document
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Description
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Cancer Institute (NCI), the Urologic Oncology Branch (UOB), plans to procure, on a sole source basis, a study to perform digital annotations on 1, 912 digital images of whole-mount radical prostatectomy slides.
Histowiz, Inc760 Parkside Ave, Ste 121Brooklyn, NY 11226
The response close date of the notice for this requirement is in accordance with FAR 5.203(b). This acquisition will be processed under FAR Part 12 - Acquisition for Commercial Items and will be made pursuant to the authority in FAR Part 13.106-1 (b)(1) and is exempt from the requirements of FAR Part 6. The North American Industry Classification System code is 541380 Testing Laboratories and the business size standard is $16.5 million.
UOB requires the comprehensive digital annotation of images taken from whole-mount radical prostatectomy specimens. These services must be provided by sub-specialty trained genitourinary pathologists since the results will be utilized to further develop artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms specifically for prostate magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
At UOB efforts are underway to use technology to digitally analyze histology images with the goals of gaining efficiency and accuracy in interpreting the image data. The increasing amounts of these images acquired created a burden for interpretation by UOB-s experts that reached unsustainable levels. Thus, UOB requires the assistance of sub-specialized genitourinary pathologists from outside the NIH for its timely completion.
The vendor HistoWiz Inc is a commercial pathology company that performed these digital annotation services for UOB in the past. The utilization of the same vendor for these annotation services will allow a rapid turnaround time and a seamless integration of the new data into the pre-existing annotated image data sets. Moreover, this vendor has identified three sub-specia...
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Notice ID : 75N91024Q00155
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Department/Ind. Agency : HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF
Sub-tier : NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH
Office: NIH NCI
General Information
Contract Opportunity Type: Presolicitation (Original)
All Dates/Times are: (UTC-04:00) EASTERN STANDARD TIME, NEW YORK, USA
Original Published Date: Aug 07, 2024 06:19 pm EDT
Original Response Date: Aug 13, 2024 12:00 pm EDT
Inactive Policy: 15 days after response date
Original Inactive Date: Aug 28, 2024
Initiative: None
Classification
Original Set Aside:
Product Service Code: Q301 - REFERENCE LABORATORY TESTING
NAICS Code: 541380 - Testing Laboratories and Services
Place of Performance: MD 20892 USA
Documents
Tender Notice
Notice-to-Sole-Source-Histowiz.docx