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24th Version of Event
Research Festival Honors Spirit of Nobelist Nirenberg |
| By Rich McManus |
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NIH director Dr. Francis Collins opened the 24th NIH Research Festival, which honored the spirit and accomplishments of Dr. Marshall Nirenberg. |
It’s hard to believe that it was less than a year ago that NIH’s first intramural Nobel
Prize winner, Dr. Marshall W. Nirenberg (1968), was presiding with his customary warmth and enthusiasm over a symposium in honor of his groundbreaking discovery of the universal genetic code in the early 1960s at NIH. He died only 2 months after
that November 2009 event, so it was appropriate that the 2010 version of NIH’s annual Research Festival was held in his memory Oct. 5-8.
“Marshall Nirenberg’s imprint on NIH research is immense,” said NIH director Dr. Francis Collins in remarks opening the festival on Oct. 5 in Masur Auditorium. “There is probably no one here whose work is not dependent in some way on his legacy...in many ways, he was really the soul of the [intramural research] program.”
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$40 Billion Up for Bid
NIH Calls for Potential IT Contractors, Targets Small Businesses |
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NIH, through its Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center (NITAAC), has solicited proposals to establish government-wide acquisition contracts (GWACs) worth about $40 billion—the second-largest GWAC program award ever. Two solicitations are involved: one unrestricted solicitation has been released; a second solicitation restricted to small businesses will be released shortly.
“The separate small business set-aside is designed to better protect the interests of small business,” said Mary Armstead, NITAAC program
director. “The two nearly identical solicitations
will each have a 10-year period of performance
and contract ceilings of approximately $20 billion.”
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