Metabolic Kitchen Cooks for Clinical Studies

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{"description":" The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), Office of Acquisitions (OA) intends to award a purchase order without providing for full and open competition to Revolutionary Solutions LLC - 6417 Colchester RD Fairfax Station, VA. This procurement is for a continuation of services for two Metabolic Kitchen Cooks for the Obesity and Diabetes Clinical Section (ODCRS). These services will be performed onsite within ODCRS, Phoenix Epidemiology and Clinical Research Branch located in Phoenix, AZ. \nNorth American Industry Classification System (naics) Code \nThe intended procurement is classified under NAICS code 541990 with a Size Standard of $19.5 million. \nRegulatory Authority \nThe resultant contract will include all applicable provisions and clauses in effect through the Federal Acquisition Circular (FAC) 2025-06 effective October 1, 2025. \nThis acquisition is conducted under the procedures as prescribed in FAR Subpart 13.106-1(b). \nStatutory Authority \nThis acquisition is conducted under the authority of 41 U.S.C. 1901 – Simplified Acquisition Procedures. \nPeriod of Performance: January 1, 2026, through December 31, 2026 \nThis will be a Firm Fixed Price Order \nObjective: \nMetabolic Kitchen Cooks are essential for the proper functioning of the \nObesity and Diabetes Clinical Research Section (ODCRS) in the execution of various study \nprotocols. The ODCRS conducts research involving nutritional assessments and diet \ninterventions, energy expenditure, fitness testing, energy intake, and excretion. The studies in \nODCRS require inpatient and outpatient participants to follow highly controlled diets that are \ntailored to specific study protocols. The Metabolic Kitchen Cooks will ensure accurate preparation of meals adhering to the precise caloric and nutrition requirements established by the Principal Investigator. The role of the Metabolic Kitchen Cooks is critical in ensuring that the dietary needs of participants in these studies are met with precision, consistency, and high standards of safety and nutritional integrity. \nMetabolic Kitchen Cook is not just a general food preparer but a \nspecialist who must understand the specific nutritional requirements of clinical research \nprotocols. Clinical research requires an extremely high level of consistency in the diet \nas deviations can affect study outcomes. The Metabolic Kitchen Cooks \nwill be responsible for maintaining rigorous quality control over the food preparation \nprocess, including the correct measurement of ingredients, accurate portioning, and ensuring \nthe highest standard of hygiene and safety. General kitchen staff services would not have the \nnecessary depth of knowledge to modify and adapt the menu based on study protocol \nadjustments, which are common in clinical research. Especially studies that track metabolic \ndata over extended periods, require consistent, long-term commitment to meal preparation. \nThese studies often span several months or even years, with specific dietary regimens \ntailored to each individual participant. The Metabolic Kitchen Cooks role is to maintain \ncontinuity and stability in this process, ensuring consistency in the preparation and delivery \nof meals that align with the evolving protocols. The position of Metabolic Kitchen Cooks cannot be \neasily substituted because it requires a unique combination of skills, expertise, and flexibility \nthat is essential for the accurate, safe, and effective execution of clinical research protocols. \nThe role is critical to ensuring participant safety, protocol adherence, and scientific integrity \nin the ODCRS studies. \nClosing Statement \nRevolutionary Solutions, current Metabolic Kitchen Cooks have demonstrated the ability to prepare precision diets tailored to specific research protocols, ensuring accuracy and consistency in meal preparation, which is critical for research validity and participant safety. These Metabolic Kitchen Cooks have been able to align with the specialized dietary requirements of clinical research studies. These Metabolic Kitchen Cooks’ experience in nutrition-sensitive environments, including working in controlled diet preparation, makes them uniquely qualified to handle the needs of ODCRS’ protocol studies. These Metabolic Kitchen Cooks are an integral member of the multidisciplinary research team, working alongside clinical researchers, nutritionists, and other specialists. Continuing with these current Metabolic Kitchen Cooks from Revolutionary Solutions is an essential step in maintaining the integrity, efficiency, and success of the Clinical Research Unit’s ongoing metabolic studies. \nThe Revolutionary Solutions Metabolic Kitchen Cooks have demonstrated the ability to work closely with multidisciplinary research teams, including clinical researchers, dietitians, and other specialists to ensure that the dietary needs of clinical study participants are met in real-time. Their ability to communicate directly with the study’s principal investigator(s) and adjust meal plans as required ensures that all participants receive meals aligned with the study’s goals. \nThese Metabolic Kitchen Cooks also understand the importance of timing, flexibility, and collaboration when it comes to providing food for clinical studies, which is key to ensuring the success of long-term and complex protocols. \nRevolutionary Solutions, LLC’s Metabolic Kitchen Cooks specialized knowledge, flexibility, and capacity to collaborate with multidisciplinary research teams ensures that the needs of both participants and researchers are met, making them an ideal sole source for continuing to support ODCRS’s dietary and nutritional needs. These Metabolic Kitchen Cooks are fully integrated into the existing research team and workflow, understand the specific software and documentation required for meal tracking, and are familiar with the specialized kitchen equipment standard operating procedures. Training two new Metabolic Kitchen Cooks to the required standard would incur significant costs in time and funding and potentially cause unacceptable delays in the ongoing clinical studies. It would also have a detrimental impact on ODCRS Clinical Research Unit’s ongoing protocols leaving the unit to work out a four-person rotation with only two Metabolic Kitchen Cooks resulting in inconsistent meal quality or difficulty in maintaining long-term dietary requirements or intermittently pause and stop studies which would ultimately impact the success and integrity of long-term studies. \nAs ODCRS continues to have a steady volume of participants throughout the year it would be beneficial to continue with the services of the two current Metabolic Kitchen Cooks through Revolutionary Solutions. \nThis is not a request for competitive proposals. However, interested parties may identify their interest and capability to respond to this notice. Responses to this notice shall contain sufficient information to establish the interested parties’ bona-fide capabilities for fulfilling the requirement. \nThe offeror/response must include a completed copy of the provision of FAR Clause 52.212-1 Instructions to Offerors – Commercial Products and Commercial Services. \nApplicable Clauses: 52.203-11 Certification and Disclosure Regarding Payments to Influence Certain Federal Transactions \n52.203-18 Prohibition on Contracting with Entities that Require Certain Internal Confidentiality Agreements or Statements—Representation \n52.204-7 System for Award Management—Registration \n52.240-90 Security Prohibitions and Exclusions—Representations and Certifications \n52.203-17 Contractor Employee Whistleblower Rights \n52.203-19 \n52.204-9 Personal Identity Verification of Contractor Personnel \n52.209-10 Prohibition on Contracting with Inverted Domestic Corporations \n52.212-4 Terms and Conditions—Commercial Products and Commercial Services \n52.219-8 Utilization of Small Business Concerns \n52.222-3 Convict Labor \n52.222-36 Equal Opportunity for Workers with Disabilities \n52.222-50 Combating Trafficking in Persons \n52.223-23 Sustainable Products and Services \n52.226-8 Encouraging Contractor Policies to Ban Text Messaging While Driving \n52.232-33 Payment by Electronic Funds Transfer—System for Award Management \n52.232-40 Providing Accelerated Payments to Small Business Subcontractors \n52.233-4 Applicable Law for Breach of Contract Claim \n52.233-3 Protest after Award \n52.240-91 Security Prohibitions and Exclusions \n52.244-6 Subcontracts for Commercial Products and Commercial Services \nThe offeror must include their Unique Entity ID (UEI), the Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN), and the certification of business size. Quotations/Responses must be received by December 22, 2025, before 1:00pm eastern daylight time via email to robinsti@mail.nih.gov. Attn: Tina Robinson. The quotation must reference “notice number 75N94026Q00016. All responsible sources may submit a quotation, which if timely received, shall be considered by the agency. Any questions must be sent via email to robinsti@mail.nih.gov and must include notice# 75N94026Q00016 in the subject line of email. \nNote: In order to receive an award, contractor must be registered as all awards and have valid certification in the System for Award Management (SAM) @ www.Sam.gov. Lack of valid registration in SAM will make an offeror ineligible for award. FAR Clause: An Offeror is required to be registered in SAM when submitting an offer or quotation and shall continue to be registered until time of award, during performance, and through final payment of any contract, basic agreement, basic ordering agreement, or blanket purchasing agreement resulting from this solicitation. \nNote: “System updates may lag policy updates. The System for Award Management (SAM) may continue to require entities to complete representations based on provisions that are not included in agency solicitations, including 52.223-22, Public Disclosure of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Reduction Goals— Representation, and paragraph (t) of 52.212-3, Offeror Representations and Certifications—Commercial Products and Commercial Services. Agencies will not consider or use these representations. Entities are not required to, nor are they able to, update their entity registration to remove these representations in SAM.” \n"} Solicitation Number: 75N94026Q00016 Type: Special Notice Base Type: Special Notice NAICS: 541990 Classification Code: R499 Response Deadline: 2025-12-22T13:00:00-05:00 Office Address: Bethesda, MD Place of Performance: Arizona, 85016 POC: ROBINSON, TINA, robinsti@mail.nih.gov, 13014437796 {"description":" The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), Office of Acquisitions (OA) intends to award a purchase order without providing for full and open competition to Revolutionary Solutions LLC - 6417 Colchester RD Fairfax Station, VA. This procurement is for a continuation of services for two Metabolic Kitchen Cooks for the Obesity and Diabetes Clinical Section (ODCRS). These services will be performed onsite within ODCRS, Phoenix Epidemiology and Clinical Research Branch located in Phoenix, AZ. \nNorth American Industry Classification System (naics) Code \nThe intended procurement is classified under NAICS code 541990 with a Size Standard of $19.5 million. \nRegulatory Authority \nThe resultant contract will include all applicable provisions and clauses in effect through the Federal Acquisition Circular (FAC) 2025-06 effective October 1, 2025. \nThis acquisition is conducted under the procedures as prescribed in FAR Subpart 13.106-1(b). \nStatutory Authority \nThis acquisition is conducted under the authority of 41 U.S.C. 1901 – Simplified Acquisition Procedures. \nPeriod of Performance: January 1, 2026, through December 31, 2026 \nThis will be a Firm Fixed Price Order \nObjective: \nMetabolic Kitchen Cooks are essential for the proper functioning of the \nObesity and Diabetes Clinical Research Section (ODCRS) in the execution of various study \nprotocols. The ODCRS conducts research involving nutritional assessments and diet \ninterventions, energy expenditure, fitness testing, energy intake, and excretion. The studies in \nODCRS require inpatient and outpatient participants to follow highly controlled diets that are \ntailored to specific study protocols. The Metabolic Kitchen Cooks will ensure accurate preparation of meals adhering to the precise caloric and nutrition requirements established by the Principal Investigator. The role of the Metabolic Kitchen Cooks is critical in ensuring that the dietary needs of participants in these studies are met with precision, consistency, and high standards of safety and nutritional integrity. \nMetabolic Kitchen Cook is not just a general food preparer but a \nspecialist who must understand the specific nutritional requirements of clinical research \nprotocols. Clinical research requires an extremely high level of consistency in the diet \nas deviations can affect study outcomes. The Metabolic Kitchen Cooks \nwill be responsible for maintaining rigorous quality control over the food preparation \nprocess, including the correct measurement of ingredients, accurate portioning, and ensuring \nthe highest standard of hygiene and safety. General kitchen staff services would not have the \nnecessary depth of knowledge to modify and adapt the menu based on study protocol \nadjustments, which are common in clinical research. Especially studies that track metabolic \ndata over extended periods, require consistent, long-term commitment to meal preparation. \nThese studies often span several months or even years, with specific dietary regimens \ntailored to each individual participant. The Metabolic Kitchen Cooks role is to maintain \ncontinuity and stability in this process, ensuring consistency in the preparation and delivery \nof meals that align with the evolving protocols. The position of Metabolic Kitchen Cooks cannot be \neasily substituted because it requires a unique combination of skills, expertise, and flexibility \nthat is essential for the accurate, safe, and effective execution of clinical research protocols. \nThe role is critical to ensuring participant safety, protocol adherence, and scientific integrity \nin the ODCRS studies. \nClosing Statement \nRevolutionary Solutions, current Metabolic Kitchen Cooks have demonstrated the ability to prepare precision diets tailored to specific research protocols, ensuring accuracy and consistency in meal preparation, which is critical for research validity and participant safety. These Metabolic Kitchen Cooks have been able to align with the specialized dietary requirements of clinical research studies. These Metabolic Kitchen Cooks’ experience in nutrition-sensitive environments, including working in controlled diet preparation, makes them uniquely qualified to handle the needs of ODCRS’ protocol studies. These Metabolic Kitchen Cooks are an integral member of the multidisciplinary research team, working alongside clinical researchers, nutritionists, and other specialists. Continuing with these current Metabolic Kitchen Cooks from Revolutionary Solutions is an essential step in maintaining the integrity, efficiency, and success of the Clinical Research Unit’s ongoing metabolic studies. \nThe Revolutionary Solutions Metabolic Kitchen Cooks have demonstrated the ability to work closely with multidisciplinary research teams, including clinical researchers, dietitians, and other specialists to ensure that the dietary needs of clinical study participants are met in real-time. Their ability to communicate directly with the study’s principal investigator(s) and adjust meal plans as required ensures that all participants receive meals aligned with the study’s goals. \nThese Metabolic Kitchen Cooks also understand the importance of timing, flexibility, and collaboration when it comes to providing food for clinical studies, which is key to ensuring the success of long-term and complex protocols. \nRevolutionary Solutions, LLC’s Metabolic Kitchen Cooks specialized knowledge, flexibility, and capacity to collaborate with multidisciplinary research teams ensures that the needs of both participants and researchers are met, making them an ideal sole source for continuing to support ODCRS’s dietary and nutritional needs. These Metabolic Kitchen Cooks are fully integrated into the existing research team and workflow, understand the specific software and documentation required for meal tracking, and are familiar with the specialized kitchen equipment standard operating procedures. Training two new Metabolic Kitchen Cooks to the required standard would incur significant costs in time and funding and potentially cause unacceptable delays in the ongoing clinical studies. It would also have a detrimental impact on ODCRS Clinical Research Unit’s ongoing protocols leaving the unit to work out a four-person rotation with only two Metabolic Kitchen Cooks resulting in inconsistent meal quality or difficulty in maintaining long-term dietary requirements or intermittently pause and stop studies which would ultimately impact the success and integrity of long-term studies. \nAs ODCRS continues to have a steady volume of participants throughout the year it would be beneficial to continue with the services of the two current Metabolic Kitchen Cooks through Revolutionary Solutions. \nThis is not a request for competitive proposals. However, interested parties may identify their interest and capability to respond to this notice. Responses to this notice shall contain sufficient information to establish the interested parties’ bona-fide capabilities for fulfilling the requirement. \nThe offeror/response must include a completed copy of the provision of FAR Clause 52.212-1 Instructions to Offerors – Commercial Products and Commercial Services. \nApplicable Clauses: 52.203-11 Certification and Disclosure Regarding Payments to Influence Certain Federal Transactions \n52.203-18 Prohibition on Contracting with Entities that Require Certain Internal Confidentiality Agreements or Statements—Representation \n52.204-7 System for Award Management—Registration \n52.240-90 Security Prohibitions and Exclusions—Representations and Certifications \n52.203-17 Contractor Employee Whistleblower Rights \n52.203-19 \n52.204-9 Personal Identity Verification of Contractor Personnel \n52.209-10 Prohibition on Contracting with Inverted Domestic Corporations \n52.212-4 Terms and Conditions—Commercial Products and Commercial Services \n52.219-8 Utilization of Small Business Concerns \n52.222-3 Convict Labor \n52.222-36 Equal Opportunity for Workers with Disabilities \n52.222-50 Combating Trafficking in Persons \n52.223-23 Sustainable Products and Services \n52.226-8 Encouraging Contractor Policies to Ban Text Messaging While Driving \n52.232-33 Payment by Electronic Funds Transfer—System for Award Management \n52.232-40 Providing Accelerated Payments to Small Business Subcontractors \n52.233-4 Applicable Law for Breach of Contract Claim \n52.233-3 Protest after Award \n52.240-91 Security Prohibitions and Exclusions \n52.244-6 Subcontracts for Commercial Products and Commercial Services \nThe offeror must include their Unique Entity ID (UEI), the Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN), and the certification of business size. Quotations/Responses must be received by December 22, 2025, before 1:00pm eastern daylight time via email to robinsti@mail.nih.gov. Attn: Tina Robinson. The quotation must reference “notice number 75N94026Q00016. All responsible sources may submit a quotation, which if timely received, shall be considered by the agency. Any questions must be sent via email to robinsti@mail.nih.gov and must include notice# 75N94026Q00016 in the subject line of email. \nNote: In order to receive an award, contractor must be registered as all awards and have valid certification in the System for Award Management (SAM) @ www.Sam.gov. Lack of valid registration in SAM will make an offeror ineligible for award. FAR Clause: An Offeror is required to be registered in SAM when submitting an offer or quotation and shall continue to be registered until time of award, during performance, and through final payment of any contract, basic agreement, basic ordering agreement, or blanket purchasing agreement resulting from this solicitation. \nNote: “System updates may lag policy updates. The System for Award Management (SAM) may continue to require entities to complete representations based on provisions that are not included in agency solicitations, including 52.223-22, Public Disclosure of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Reduction Goals— Representation, and paragraph (t) of 52.212-3, Offeror Representations and Certifications—Commercial Products and Commercial Services. Agencies will not consider or use these representations. Entities are not required to, nor are they able to, update their entity registration to remove these representations in SAM.” \n"}