NOTICE OF INTENT TO SOLE SOURCE

Description The government intends to issue a Sole Source Firm Fixed Contract to Duke University (Dr. Mercedes Bravo) to provide a full, submission ready manuscript utilizing data collected from the existing contract and provide final written code for cleaning data, performing all analyses, and generating all figures and tables. This effort is a follow on to existing contract, PO # 68HE0B22P0097, for clinical and environmental data in the National COVID19 Cohort Consortium (N3C) to investigate how the air quality exacerbated coronavirus infections/re-infection and severe symptoms upon COVID19 hospitalizations using electronic health records from the N3C. See attached Notice of Intent for further information. Overview Reference number: 68HE0B23Q0099 Issue date: 03/20/2023 Response due: 03/29/2023 10:00 AM US/Eastern Set Aside: NAICS: 541690-Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services PSC / FSC: B504-SPECIAL STUDIES/ANALYSIS- CHEMICAL/BIOLOGICAL Agency: EPA Contracting office: ORD/ORM/EMD/SAB Renae Cochran (580-436-8517) US Environmental Protection Agency 919 Kerr Research Drive Ada, OK 74820 Place of Performance: Contact: Renae Cochran Phone: Fax: Email: cochran.renae@epa.gov Vendors conference: Location: