SOURCES SOUGHT
B -- Cryopreservation of Transgenic Rate Lines for NIDA IRP
- Notice Date
- 6/24/2014
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541690
— Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Station Support/Simplified Acquisitions, 31 Center Drive, Room 1B59, Bethesda, Maryland, 20892
- ZIP Code
- 20892
- Solicitation Number
- HHS-NIH-NIDA-SSSA-SS-14-346
- Archive Date
- 7/15/2014
- Point of Contact
- Lauren M. Phelps, Phone: 3015942490
- E-Mail Address
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lauren.phelps@nih.gov
(lauren.phelps@nih.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Contracting Office Address: Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Station Support Simplified Acquisitions, 31 Center Drive, Room 1B59, Bethesda, MD 20892, UNITED STATES. Introduction: This is a Small Business Sources Sought notice. This is NOT a solicitation for proposals, proposal abstracts, or quotations. The purpose of this notice is to obtain information regarding: (1) the availability and capability of qualified small business sources, (2) whether they are small businesses; HUBZone small businesses, service-disabled, veteran-owned small businesses; 8(a) small businesses; veteran-owned small businesses; woman-owned small businesses; or small disadvantaged businesses; and (3) their size classification relative to the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for the proposed acquisition. Your responses to the information requested will assist the Government in determining the appropriate acquisition method, including whether a set-aside is possible. Background: The Optogenetics and Transgenic Technology Core (OTTC) at the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Intramural Research Program (IRP) was established for the purpose of developing technology to understand the contributions and connections of specific neurons in cognitive and behavioral functions related to addiction. Part of these efforts is the development of novel transgenic rats and viral vectors that serve as a versatile platform for understanding the cellular and molecular functions of neurons and glia in cognition, behavior and disease. An emphasis is placed on developing transgenic tools that will be generally useful to the scientific community and made available once published. Purpose and Objectives for the Procurement: The purpose of this requirement is to acquire cryopreservation for seventeen (17) novel transgenic rat lines. The NIDA OTTC facility has developed unique transgenic rats for understanding neuronal functions in rodent models of addiction and other neurological diseases. Cryopreservation service is necessary to protect the significant time and resource investment by the NIDA IRP to generate and characterize these animals which will be of a broad use to the scientific community. Project Requirements: The NIDA OTTC possesses 17 transgenic rat lines that require cryopreservation service. Specifically, the Contractor must perform the following for the NIDA OTTC: 1. At direction from the NIDA OTTC Director or his designee, the contractor shall cyropreserve OTTC generated rat lines. 2. The contractor must be able to receive proven breeder males to breed heterozygous x wild type (WT) rats. 3. The contractor shall be responsible for breeding heterozygous (transgene carriers provided by NIDA) x wild type Long Evans rats to obtain embryos. The contractor shall be responsible for providing the wild type Long Evans rats. 4. The contractor shall collect a minimum of 250 embryos per transgenic line. 5. The contractor shall provide portion aliquots of embryos for every cryopreserved rat line immediately upon cryopreservation to the NIDA OTTC director located at 251 Bayview Blvd, Baltimore MD 21224. 6. The remainder of embryos shall be stored by the contractor for the period of performance of this requirement. 7. In the event of damage to contractor storage unit or facility, the contractor shall possess the capacity to store cryopreserved material in multiple backup facilities. Storage beyond the period of performance of this statement of work is not required. 8. The contractor shall re-derive lines in case of catastrophic damage to facility and/or loss of embryos. 9. The contractor shall provide a guarantee of recovery of cryopreserved animals in the event of loss or damage. 10. At the end of the requirement period of performance, the contractor shall return the stored embryos to the NIDA OTTC. 11. The contractor must provide guarantee that viable rats can generated from cryopreserved embryos. In the event that viable rates cannot be generated from the cryopreserved embryos, the contractor shall cover costs to recreate the transgenic rat line. Government Furnished Property: The NIDA OTTC will provide 4-6 proven breeder males less than 6 months of age or 10-12 week old females for each of the 17 lines until all 17 lines are cryopreserved. This will be an ongoing process for the duration of the award until all 17 lines have been cryopreserved. Anticipated Period of Performance: The anticipated period of performance is twelve (12) months from date of award. Capability Statement: Contractors that believe they possess the ability to provide the required services should submit documentation of their ability to meet each of the project requirements to the Contract Specialist. Contractors should also provide their Company Name, DUNS number, Physical Address, and Point of Contact Information. Interested organizations are required to identify their type of business, applicable North American Industry Classification System Code, and size standards in accordance with the Small Business Administration. The government requests that no proprietary or confidential business data be submitted in a response to this notice. However, responses that indicate the information therein is proprietary will be properly safeguarded for Government use only. Capability statements must include the name and telephone number of a point of contact having authority and knowledge to discuss responses with Government representatives. Capability statements in response to this market survey that do not provide sufficient information for evaluation will be considered non-responsive. When submitting this information, please reference the solicitation notice number. All capability statements sent in response to this Sources Sought Notice must be submitted electronically (via email) to Lauren Phelps, Contract Specialist, at Lauren.Phelps@nih.gov in MS Word format before the closing date and time of this announcement. All responses must be received by the specified due date and time in order to be considered. Note: This notice does not obligate the Government to award a contract or otherwise pay for the information provided in the response. No proprietary, classified, confidential, or sensitive information should be included in your response. The Government reserves the right to use information provided by respondents for any purpose deemed necessary and legally appropriate. Any organization responding to this notice should ensure that its response is complete and sufficiently detailed to allow the Government to determine the organization's qualifications to perform the work. Respondents are advised that the Government is under no obligation to acknowledge receipt of the information received or provide feedback to respondents with respect to any information submitted. After review of the responses received, pre-solicitation and solicitation notices may be published in Federal Business Opportunities. However, responses to this notice will not be considered adequate responses to a solicitation. The solicitation release date is pending. The Government intends to negotiate a fixed-price contract.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: Baltimore, Maryland, 21224, United States
- Zip Code: 21224
- Zip Code: 21224
- Record
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