Account Management, Planning, and Maintenance for Online Crowd-Sourced Surveys and Cognitive Tasks for Individuals

SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE Solicitation Number: 75N98026Q01128 Title: Account Management, Planning, and Maintenance for Online Crowd-Sourced Surveys and Cognitive Tasks for Individuals NAICS CODE: 541990 All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services Classification Code: R499 Professional Administrative, and Management Support Services Size Standard: $ 19.5 Million Description. This is a Small Business Sources Sought notice. This is NOT a solicitation for proposals, proposal abstracts, or quotations. The purpose of this notice is to obtain information regarding: (1) the availability and capability of qualified small business sources; (2) whether they are small businesses; HUBZone small businesses; service-disabled, veteran-owned small businesses; 8(a) small businesses; veteran-owned small businesses; woman-owned small businesses; or small disadvantaged businesses; (3) their size classification relative to the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for the proposed acquisition; and (4) availability of domestic sources manufactured in the United States in sufficient and reasonably available commercial quantities and of a satisfactory quality. For equipment/supply requirements, responses must include the place of manufacturing (i.e. address if supply/equipment is a domestic end product and include country of manufacture). For equipment/supply requirements, small businesses must also address the size status of the manufacturer under the applicable NAICS code (i.e. address Non-Manufacturer Rule). Your responses to the information requested will assist the Government in determining the appropriate acquisition method, including whether a set-aside is possible. An organization that is not considered a small business under the applicable NAICS code should not submit a response to this notice. This notice is issued to help determine the availability of qualified companies technically capable of meeting the Government requirement and to determine the method of acquisition. It is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government to issue a solicitation or ultimately award a contract. Responses will not be considered as proposals or quotes. No award will be made as a result of this notice. The Government will NOT be responsible for any costs incurred by the respondents to this notice. This notice is strictly for research and information purposes only. Background. The Unit on Computational Decision Neuroscience (CDN) at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) is requesting to run online surveys of individuals with and without mental health disorders with an online survey provider s platform. To conduct these studies, NIMH will require a contract for a provider to collect these surveys and provide the responses along with additional demographic information. Purpose and Objectives. The contractor shall provide all resources necessary to accomplish the tasks and deliverables described in this Statement of Work (SOW). The contractor shall provide services for managing accounts for online crowd-sourced research. Salient characteristics include the following: Task: Collecting Survey and Task Responses from Individuals With and Without Depression The Contractor shall provide the participants for the cognitive tasks and surveys. CDN and their collaborators at NIMH will build the cognitive tasks surveys and ensure that they comply with the Contractor s requirements. The Contractor shall make the tasks and survey(s) available to their panel of respondents until the required number of responses are collected and will manage participant reimbursement. The survey questions may assess the severity of depression and anxiety symptoms and other psychiatric conditions and assess the impact of those symptoms on respondents functioning in day-to-day life. Additionally, we may collect open-ended responses about participants experiences with the task(s), their condition, and other factors. The responses to survey questions…