The Government intends to award a Sole Source contract to Johns Hopkins University. The technician will work in the John Hopkins Medicine/Neurology/Brain Injury Outcomes within the Research Service of VAMHCS. The duty station is Baltimore. The study nurse is responsible for capturing all workload through the completion of an encounter form in a timely manner. Independently performs standard examinations and schedules patients for examinations. Evaluates the nature of critical and emergency procedures, and rearranges patients scheduled to accommodate them. Maintains records of patients examined. Cross-indexes interesting cases for teaching purposes.

The contractor (Johns Hopkins University-School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland with Dr. Daniel Hanley and Dr. Macko) will work in the VA Center of NeuroRehabilitation Excellence. The duty station is VA Baltimore. The contract is to identify Neuromuscular and cortical mechanisms of functional performance leading to adaptive modes of recovery after stroke and other disabling neurologic conditions including Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and Parkinsons disease.



This contract provides continuation of services for a previous research project with Johns Hopkins University which was under the previous award for a follow-up on appropriate tests of Neuroplasticity in research protocols aimed at assessing treadmill and Roboyic interventions applied to stroke, MS and Parkinsons patients. Therefore due to the continuity of the research, the requirements are deemed to be available only from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, therefore it is likely that award to any other source would result in substantial duplication of cost to the Government that is not expected to be recovered through competition; or unacceptable delays in fulfilling the agencys requirements.