SOLICITATION NOTICE
B -- Resource for the Collection and Evalualtion of Human Tissues and Cells from Donors with an Epidemiology Profile
- Notice Date
- 6/16/2010
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 622110
— General Medical and Surgical Hospitals
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, Office of Acquisitions, 6120 Executive Blvd., EPS Suite 600, Rockville, Maryland, 20852
- ZIP Code
- 20852
- Solicitation Number
- N02RC01007-74
- Archive Date
- 8/13/2010
- Point of Contact
- Odessa D Henderson, Phone: (301) 435-3812, JohnManouelian, Phone: (301) 435-3813
- E-Mail Address
-
oh4o@nih.gov, jm486p@nih.gov
(oh4o@nih.gov, jm486p@nih.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The Laboratory of Human Carcinogenesis (LHC), Center for Cancer Research of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) is recompeting a five-year tissue collection contract. The Contractor for this procurement will obtain (via informed consent) and characterize (histo-pathologically) normal-appearing and neoplastic bronchial, pulmonary, prostectomy, breast, esophageal, intestinal, colonic, pancreatic and hepatic tissues and cells, as well as other biological specimens (including pleural effusions, urine, and blood and its components) at the time of surgery for cancer or non-cancer conditions, and at immediate autopsy of non-cancer donors from organ transplant units, shock-trauma sources, or routine autopsy from medical examiner cases. The contractor will prepare epidemiological profiles on all donors willing to provide personal information from current medical records and historical, social, occupation personal and family health information, to complete an NIH designed epidemiological questionnaire. The incumbent Contractor is the University of Maryland at Baltimore (Contract HHSN261200577000C) which is scheduled to expire on August 31, 2010. The NAICS Code for this procurement is 622110. The NCI will consider proposals from all responsible sources. However, offerors must demonstrate in their technical proposal, their ability to facilitate delivery of the non-frozen viable tissues to the NCI in Bethesda, Maryland within two (2) hours from the receipt of specimens from pathology and within four (4) hours of receipt from surgery. Offerors must also provide evidence that they can continue to followup with patients accrued from the following hospitals: University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore's Veterans Administration Hospital, Johns Hopkins University, Sinai, Harbor and Bon Secours and they must also demonstrate their ability to accure new patients in the Baltimore metropolitan area., as a mandatory qualification criteria of this solicitation. Failure to demonstrate this element at the time of original submission will result in the offeror's elimination from further consideration. The LHC plans to award a single, cost-reimbursement completion type contract for a base period of one year, with four one-year options. The anticipated solicitation issue date is approximately 15 days after the publication of this notice and proposals will be due approximately 30 days after the issue date. The RFP may be accessed the Office of Acquisitions Home Page by the following Internet address: http://oa-internet.nci.nih.gov. IT IS THE OFFERORS RESPONSIBLITY TO MONITOR THE ABOVE INTERNET SITE FOR THE RELEASE OF THE SOLICITATION AND ANY AMENDMENTS. Collect calls will NOT be accepted.
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