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FBO DAILY ISSUE OF JANUARY 07, 2005 FBO #1138
SOLICITATION NOTICE

99 -- On-Site Animal Care and Diet Prepararion Services

Notice Date
1/5/2005
 
Notice Type
Solicitation Notice
 
NAICS
541990 — All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
 
Contracting Office
Department of Health and Human Services, Food and Drug Administration, Jefferson Laboratories, National Center for Toxicological Research, Attn: Division of Contracts and Acquisitions, HFT-322 3900 NCTR Road, Jefferson, AR, 72079-9502
 
ZIP Code
72079-9502
 
Solicitation Number
222-05-2000(P)
 
Response Due
2/19/2005
 
Archive Date
3/6/2005
 
Description
Services to be performed at the Jefferson Laboratories/National Center for Toxicological Research, Jefferson, Arkansas. The Jefferson Laboratories//National Center for Toxicological Research (NCTR), Jefferson, Arkansas, has a requirement for On-Site Animal Care and Diet Preparation Services. Qualified professional, technical, and administrative staff will be required to perform animal care and diet preparation services, including, but not limited to, the following tasks: Maintain various species of animals under laboratory conditions as directed by each protocol including: feeding, watering, maintaining a clean environment, performing special protocol procedures as requested, making and recording observations and diet preparation services (mixing and dosing feed, skin creams and dosed water). Examples of special technical procedures required by protocol(s) include but are not limited to; date mating, blood collection, administration of agents by various routes (subcutaneous, intravenous, or intraperitoneal injections); gavage, behavioral testing of rodents and primates, animal restraint and identification; collection of body fluids, etc. The requirements are divided into Task I-Animal Care Services, Task II- Diet Preparation, and Task III- General Contract Support. These three Tasks have five Sub-Tasks: clinical veterinary care, laboratory animal care support, Specific Pathogen Free Barrier rodent production colony support, quality control and safety, and inventory and equipment management. In addition, the Contractor shall be responsible for designing, directing and administering the Environmental Health and Safety Program for the contract employees and/or in areas of Contractor operational responsibility. The Diet Preparation Facility shall be operated as a Specific Pathogen Free Barrier. The operation of preparing diet will normally be concerned with preparing special mixes, blends and/or processing as dictated by protocols, maintaining inventory of each type of feed, and distributing all unprocessed and processed feed as may be required by any species of animal being maintained at the Jefferson Laboratories/NCTR. Contractor responsibility will include, but may not be limited to, routine autoclaving of all rodent diets, mixing and dosing feed an/or water with hazardous chemicals, grinding pellets to meal, and all ancillary support required to produce diet. All work associated with Animal Care/Diet Preparation services shall be performed in strict compliance with approved standard Operating Procedures (SOPS) written and maintained by the Contractor. RFP available approximately 1/26/2005; Duration of contract ? five (5) years. All responsible sources may submit an offer which shall be considered by the agency.
 
Place of Performance
Address: 3900 NCTR Road, Jefferson, Arkansas, 72079-9502, ,
Country: US
 
Record
SN00730204-W 20050107/050105211854 (fbodaily.com)
 
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