Notice of Intent to Sole-Source: Online recruitment platform for behavioral nutrition studies

Solicitation description

THIS IS A NOTICE OF INTENT TO AWARD A SOLE SOURCE PURCHASE ORDER WITHOUT PROVIDING FOR FULL AND OPEN COMPETITION. THIS IS NOT A SOLICITATION OR A REQUEST FOR COMPETITIVE PROPOSALS. GENERAL This notice is issued in accordance with Revolutionary FAR Overhaul (RFO) 12.201-1(c)(2), advertising the Government's intent to issue an award on a sole source basis under the authority established in RFO 12.102(a). The National Institutes of Health, Specialized Scientific Information Technology (SSIT) Division anticipates issuing a single Purchase Order (PO) to the following entity: PROLIFIC ACADEMIC LTD 483 Green Lanes London, N13 4BS United Kingdom BACKGROUND Researchers within the Division of Population Health Research of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) require services from an online recruitment platform to support behavioral nutrition studies with English-speaking adults. The studies require recruiting participants from specific populations, including adults, parents of young children, and U.S. residents. Access to a separate online participant pool, distinct from those used in other phases of the research, is required to maintain the scientific integrity of the research, as recruiting participants from the same pool across study phases would compromise the study design by increasing the likelihood of prior exposure to study materials and repeat participation. This platform must meet the following requirements: The platform must be designed specifically to support research studies rather than general crowdsourcing activities for which research is only a secondary use. The platform must allow researchers to estimate, prior to recruitment, the number of active participants available who meet specified eligibility criteria, including demographic, geographic, language, and behavioral characteristics. The platform must support longitudinal research by enabling researchers to re-contact and re-recruit participants for follow-up surveys and assessments. The platform must allow researchers to directly determine participant compensation rates for individual studies. The platform must support rapid recruitment of participants, including the ability to recruit hundreds of eligible participants within days to weeks. The platform must allow researchers to review study completion status and directly approve participant compensation. The platform must support collection of high-quality research data through participant screening, participant management, and data quality controls. Based on market research, only Prolific is capable of providing access to the Prolific participant pool and associated participant recruitment platform, which offers data collection from a wide participant pool of primarily English-speaking adults that is more cost-effective and efficient than other vendors. No third-party vendor can provide access to the Prolific participant pool or replicate the platform's participant...

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