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Introduction This Sources Sought Notice is for interested small businesses. This notice is NOT a request for proposals and does not commit the Government to award a contract now or in the future. No solicitation is available at this time. The purpose of this notice is to obtain information regarding: (1) the availability and capability of qualified small business sources; (2) whether small businesses are classified as HUBZone; service-disabled, veteran-owned; 8(a); veteran- owned; woman-owned; or small disadvantaged; and (3) their size classification relative to the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for the proposed acquisition. Your responses to the information requested will assist the Government in determining the appropriate acquisition method, including whether a set-aside is possible. The NAICS Code for this acquisition is 541715 – Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology). Small business organizations must have their size status certified by the Small Business Administration. An organization that is not considered a small business under NAICS code 541715 should not submit a response to this notice. Background The Division of Cardiovascular Sciences of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), National Institutes of Health (NIH), is conducting a market survey to assess the availability and potential technical capability of small business firms to perform the necessary steps to design a longitudinal cohort study within the Southern Plains region of the U.S. to serve as an expansion of the existing contract program titled “Risk Underlying Rural Areas Longitudinal (RURAL) Heart and Lung Study cohort. The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) intends to expand the footprint of RURAL to increase representation of the U.S. rural population within the study. This expansion cohort will identify up to four (4) rural counties in the Southern Plains region using rurality criteria comparable to the original cohort in the RURAL Heart and Lung study. The selected counties should be demographically representative of the targeted area of the rural Southern Plains region, with enrollment targets that will enable valid inferences across key continuous and dichotomous factors of risk and resilience with respect to key population subgroups. Where feasible, counties should be selected to mirror and enhance the ecological design of RURAL higher risk and lower risk counties with respect to cardiopulmonary outcomes; secure suitable mobile examination unit(s) (semi-trailer, customized RV, etc.) to conduct a clinical examination of participants that is comparable in scope to the baseline clinical examination conducted in the RURAL Original cohort; conduct cohort follow-up to ascertain health status and accrue cardiovascular and pulmonary events for the purpose of assessing progression from subclinical disease to clinical disease in a m…

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