Notice ID: 140D0425R0004
The purpose of this requirement is to acquire Enterprise Vocabulary Services (EVS) for the National Cancer Institute’s (NCI) Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology (CBIIT) and its support of integrated Information Technology (IT) and biomedical informatics coordination and management efforts.
The Contractor shall provide several general categories of consulting, planning, process improvement, management, systems and software development, information technology operations, subject matter expertise, and terminology analysis, development, maintenance, publishing, and support services to CBIIT.
These services shall include, but not be limited to: overall Task Order and project management and high level coordination among subprojects and tasks; analysis of semantic content and technical aspects of all EVS resources and many related and external terminology/ontology sources, mappings, and biomedical data standards; working with NCI and community partners to analyze and address their terminology needs; developing recommendations for the EVS Program, including technical and process improvements; and performing the development, modeling, refinement, quality assurance, maintenance, publication, and deployment of EVS scientific, clinical, and administrative terminology resources, tools, and services.
The Contractor shall evaluate EVS requirements, plans, processes, and technologies and identify opportunities for optimization of current processes, and areas and targets for potential beneficial changes, enhancements, and expansion of EVS semantic content and services. When recommended improvements are accepted by the government, the Contractor shall assist in planning and supporting their implementation.
The contractor shall perform continuous process and EVS semantic products enhancement, integration of new content developed inside and outside of NCI; terminology editing, quality assurance, testing, maintenance, harmonization, mapping, and publications of NCI vocabularies and other appropriate terminology and ontology sources.
The contractor shall also participate in testing of new versions of the NCI-specific versions of Protégé and other EVS software including EVS browsers, APIs, semantic content extraction applications used for terminology editing, mapping, display, and publishing, as well as data integration support tools as needed. The contractor shall provide technical support for terminology production, such as loading a variety of terminologies in the terminology servers and coordinating the promotion of data and software through the relevant NCI system tiers and publishing according to the defined schedules …
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