**[Program in Developmental Endocrinology and Genetics(PDEGEN) Site
Visit]{.underline}**

**Purpose:**

The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development will be
having their quadrennial site visit to The Program in Developmental
Endocrinology and Genetics (PDEGEN) of the NICHD, which is directed by
Dr. Constantine Stratakis.  The visit will begin Wednesday evening,
March 26^th^, 2008 (Dr. Rennert will meet with the reviewers at the
hotel for an orientation at 8:00 p.m.), all day Thursday, March 27^th^
and will end by mid-afternoon, Friday, March 28^th^. The meeting will be
held in conference rooms in Building 10 CRC and will be chaired by Dr.
Virginia Kimonis, a member of our Board of Scientific Counselors.

During the past several years, the review of intramural research at the
NIH has become more rigorous than had been the case earlier. The feeling
throughout the Institutes is that our intramural scientists should be
subjected to the same scrutiny as the NIH\'s grantees, allowing for some
differences in the structure and dynamics of intramural and extramural
research. There has been an important attempt in all of the Institutes
to upgrade the quality and significance of the site visit process, and
it is being taken seriously indeed especially since our resources are
increasingly limited. To deploy these resources as fairly and
intelligently as possible, the NIH depends greatly upon the site visit
reports with commentary that is explicit and stringent.

The number of attendees for the site visit is determined by the number
of investigators in the Program plus a chair and co-chair for the event.
PDEGEN has 11 Senior Investigators, that require three independent
reviewers each. This brings the total of reviewers plus chairs to 35.

**Quote Need:**

In order to facilitate the Program in Developmental Endocrinology and
Genetics (PDEGEN) site visit from our NIH campus, we will need the
coordination and administration of airline tickets, hotel reservations,
per diem, ground transportation and honorarium for the attendees. All of
the expenses will be reimbursed after the site visit with the exclusion
of the airline ticket which must be paid for by the contractor upfront.
This is to help defer the cost burden that each reviewer will be
subjected to. The following details will apply:

-   **Attendees**-there will be 35 site reviewers. Two (2) of these are
    foreign.

-   **Hotel**- The contractor must provide for two night hotel
    accommodations at the governments hotel per diem plus tax. As the
    reviewers are not government employees they are will be subject to
    the state and hotel tax totaling 12%. A hotel contract is pre
    drafted by the site visitor coordinator. It provides a block of
    rooms, which will be individually guaranteed by each site reviewer.
    No action is required on the part of the contractor for this expense
    outside of an expense reimbursement after the site visit.

-   **Per diem (MMIE) Clause** -- The contractor must provide the MMIE
    portion of the daily per diem to each traveler for each day of the
    meeting. For the PDEGEN Meeting the travel days requiring MMIE are
    as follows:

    -   **3/26/08** - Day of travel, day of meeting

    -   **3/27/08** - Day of meeting and travel

    -   **3/28/08** - Day of meeting and travel

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-   **Ground Transportation** -- The contractor must provide a \$200
    flat ground transportation reimbursement unless total reimbursements
    receipts submitted exceed this amount. In that case, the higher
    amount is to be refunded. This covers reviewer's ground expenses to
    and from the airport on both legs of their trips.

-   **Honorarium** -- The contractor must provide honorarium for each
    day of service the reviewer provides toward the site visit. For the
    PDEGEN Site Visit the applicable days and amount are listed below:

    -   3/27/08 -- 1 Day @ \$200

    -   3/28/08 -- 1 Day @ \$200

-   **Special Exceptions -- None**