THIS IS A SOURCES SOUGHT ANNOUNCEMENT ONLY. It is neither a solicitation announcement nor a request for proposals or quotes and does not obligate the Government to award a contract. Requests for a solicitation will not receive a response. Responses to this sources sought must be in writing. The purpose of this sources sought announcement is for market research to make appropriate acquisition decisions and to gain knowledge of potential qualified Small Businesses interested and capable of providing the services described below. NIH-OD-SS-26-004013 The information gained from this market research will help the National Institutes (NIH) Clinical Center (CC) plan for its acquisition strategy. Potential Large and Small Businesses shall include business information outlined in the section below as a part of their response. Complete responses to this notice shall be in the following format: SAM UEI Number Company Name Company Address, City, State and Zip Code Company Point of Contact, Email Address and Telephone Number Current GSA Schedule appropriate to this Sources Sought Socioeconomic Status: (i.e., HUBZone, 8a, Small Business, Women Owned Small Business, Veteran-Owned Small-Business, etc.) as validated in Central Contractor Registration (CCR). All offerors must register in CCR located in https://www.sam.gov. Provide a capability statement that addresses the organizations qualifications and ability to perform as a contractor for the work described in the Statement of Work. Background The NIH Clinical Center is the sponsoring institution at the National Institutes of Health responsible for the administrative support and oversight of graduate medical education programs designed to train physicians, recruited through a competitive nation-wide search process in 24 nationally recognized medical/surgical specialties. These graduate medical education programs provide prescribed structured, standardized clinical and research training experiences to these physicians that permits their certification as specialists in a recognized medical or surgical field by the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS), a national organization that has established a process for verifying the competence of individual physicians in such recognized medical or surgical specialty fields. However, the prescribed standards and program structure required for the training for physicians in a given medical or surgical specialty field are developed and verified, both for training programs and institutions which sponsor those training programs, through a national process of accreditation established by another organization, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), located in Chicago, Illinois. The ACGME is an independent, not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) organization that accredits approximately 905 sponsoring institutions (such as the NIH Clinical Center), and approximately 13,000 residency programs in 146 specialties or subspecialties that educate about 162…