SOLICITATION NOTICE
Q -- Tissue Culture Technician
- Notice Date
- 6/24/2010
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 621511
— Medical Laboratories
- 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
- NCI-100080-MM
- Archive Date
- 7/23/2010
- Point of Contact
- Melissa P Marino, Phone: 301-402-4509, Caren N Rasmussen, Phone: (301) 402-4509
- E-Mail Address
-
marinome@mail.nih.gov, cr214i@nih.gov
(marinome@mail.nih.gov, cr214i@nih.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Contracting Office Address Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, Office of Acquisitions, 6120 Executive Boulevard, EPS Suite 600, Room 6072, Rockville, MD 20852, UNITED STATES. Description The National Cancer Institute (NCI),Division of Clinical Sciences, Surgery Branch, plans to procure the services for a laboratory tissue culture technician. This acquisition will be processed under FAR Part 12 - Acquisition for Commercial Items and will be made pursuant to the authority in FAR 13.106-1(b)(2) and 13.501-(a)(1) using simplified acquisition procedures for commercial acquisitions. Only one award shall be made as a result of this solicitation Period of performance shall be for twelve months from date of award with four twelve month option periods. The Surgery Branch in the Division of Clinical Sciences of the National Cancer Institute requires the services of a laboratory tissue culture technician. The contractor shall provide support for the Cell Processing Laboratory in the Tumor Immunology Section. This laboratory generates cellular immune reagents for treating cancer patients, particularly lymphocytes that destroy cancer cells. The contractor shall support tissue culture tasks by providing flexible, "on demand," including weekends and evenings, tissue processing, media preparation, and application of highly specific, cell-culture procedures during periods of high laboratory through-put, as well as generating records, which are associated with the contract work and are required by the laboratory and by regulatory agencies. Contractor Requirements: The contractor shall have a college science degree and a minimum of 4 years of work experience within the last 5 years in these task areas: 1) Preparing tissue culture media under cGMP conditions; 2) Preparing viable cells from human peripheral blood and human tumor biopsies, 3) Establishing and maintaining human tumor cell lines and cultures of human lymphocytes, and 4) Maintaining laboratory records that comply with FDA mandated guidelines and established laboratory procedures. Tasks 1-3 require use of and extensive experience with Universal Precautions and cGMP laboratory procedures. Task 4 requires detailed record keeping. The contractor will be required to provide prolonged periods of working within a biological safety cabinet with potentially pathogenic human cell cultures and tissue culture reagents. The task involves moving within and between laboratories to transfer cell cultures, get reagents, and carry out procedures. The government plans to award this contract as an Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) type contract. The contractor shall provide a minimum of 260 hours and a maximum of 2600 for the base period and all option period. Potential offerors may request a copy of the solicitation from Melissa Marino, Contract Specialist via electronic mail at marinome@mail.nih.gov or fax (301) 402-4513. If you have questions regarding this notice, they may be addressed to the aforementioned individual noted above. All questions must be in submitted in writing to the above e-mail address. When submitting your request please include complete mailing address, DUNS number, point of contact name, email, phone and fax number. Estimated issued date of the solicitation is July 13, 2010 with an estimated due date of July 26, 2010. No collect calls will be accepted. In order to receive an award, contractors must be registered and have valid certification in the Central Contractor Registration (CCR) and the Online Representations and Certifications Applications (ORCA). Reference: RFQ-NCI-100080-MM on all correspondence.
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