SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- Housing and Maintenance of Laboratory Research Animals for NIAID Vaccine Research Center (VRC)
- Notice Date
- 2/11/2014
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 541990
— All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases/AMOB, 10401 Fernwood Drive, Suite 2NE70, MSC 4811, Bethesda, Maryland, 20817
- ZIP Code
- 20817
- Solicitation Number
- NIHAO2014004
- Point of Contact
- Patrick Wilson, Phone: 301-402-6835
- E-Mail Address
-
wilsonpm@mail.nih.gov
(wilsonpm@mail.nih.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Vaccine Research Center (VRC) has a requirement to house, feed, and care for an estimated 50 ferrets and an estimated 250 non-human primates of the following species: Macaca milatta; Macaca fasicularis, Macaca nemestrina; and any other combination of Old World and New World species. The number of primates required to be housed and maintained by the contractor may be increased by up to 50 primates per year - up to a maximum of 450 animals total - over the course of the contract period of performance. The number of ferrets required to be housed and maintained by the contractor may be increased by up to 100 ferrets per year - up to a maximum 450 ferrets total - over the course of the contract period of performance. Offerors will also be required to conduct up to 20 procedures per week for experimental groups consisting of 4 to 12 nonhuman primates for immunogenicity and viral challenge studies of various viral strains including Simian Immunodeficiency Virus (SIV); Simian-Human Immunodeficiency Virus (SHIV) strains; Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV); Vaccinia wild type and recombinant viruses; attenuated and wild type adenoviruses, including recombinant adenoviruses, and attenuated and wild type Influenza viruses. Procedures performed include, but are not limited to, inoculation; animal observation and monitoring; evaluation of therapies; specimen collection and performance of clinical pathological procedures as prescribed. Offerors will also be required to conduct up to 2 procedures per month for experimental groups consisting of up to 50 ferrets. Offerors must be able to provide secure and adequate dedicated storage and isolation facilities including environmentally-controlled procedure and containment rooms; necessary equipment; and qualified, experienced personnel for animal care, maintenance, and procedures conducted at the ABSL-2 and/or ABSL 3 level of containment. In order to facilitate the exchange of specimen samples to and from the project office the contractor's facility, the offeror's housing facility must be within 50 miles of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) facilities located at 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, Maryland 20892. It is anticipated that any resultant contract will be awarded as a one year cost reimbursement type contract beginning on May 12, 2014 with the option for four additional contract years. The RFP will be available electronically on or about February 25, 2014 for download through FedBizOpps at http://www.fbo.gov. This notice does not commit the government to award a contract. All questions must be directed in writing to Patrick Wilson at wilsonpm@mail.nih.gov. No collect calls will be accepted. No facsimile transmission will be accepted.
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