SOURCES SOUGHT
R -- NIDA Animal Care and Research Support
- Notice Date
- 4/29/2015
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541712
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)
- 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-SBSS-15-320
- Archive Date
- 5/26/2015
- Point of Contact
- Megan Ault,
- E-Mail Address
-
megan.ault@nih.gov
(megan.ault@nih.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Contracting Office Address: Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Institutes on Drug Abuse, Station Support Simplified Acquisitions, 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. An organization that is not considered a small business under the applicable NAICS code should not submit a response to this notice. Background: The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Division of Intramural Research (DIR) is the intramural research program of NIDA. The DIR's mission is to conduct a coordinated, multidisciplinary program of research to improve its understanding of the causes and consequences of drug abuse, and to develop more effective treatment and prevention programs. Research using animals is an important part of this program. Such research involves: •studies of the expression of genes in rodent animal models •investigations of the distribution and function of neurotransmitters and their receptors •studies of genetic variability in responses to drugs •studies of the effects of drugs on behavior and at the cellular level •studies of the toxicity of drugs •evaluations of drugs as potential therapeutic agents •studies on how drugs affect neural pathways using genetic and molecular biology methods The DIR is located on the grounds of the Bayview Research Campus of the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, 21224. The DIR program occupies space in two buildings on the Bayview campus, the Biomedical Research Center (BRC) at 251 Bayview Boulevard and the Triad building at 333 Cassell Drive. The animal research program in the BRC building occupies approximately 45,000 square feet which includes approximately 28,000 square feet of animal housing and support space, approximately 2,000 square feet of storage space, and approximately 15,000 square feet of animal laboratory space. The BRC space includes 20 animal housing rooms including a barrier suite of three rooms for rodent breeding, quarantine room, an ABSL-2 suite, and a surgical suite for non-human primates (NHP). The BRC facility houses rats, mice, and non-human primates. The animal research program in the Triad building consists of 9,000 square feet of space and is located approximately one-third mile from the BRC building. The Triad facility houses rats and mice. It consists of 5,000 square feet of housing and support space and 4,000 square feet of animal testing areas. There are 9 animal housing rooms with three of those rooms used for breeding. Purpose and Objectives: The purpose of this acquisition is to provide the NIDA DIR, with services required to demonstrate that proper animal care and use is being performed prior to and at the time of NIDA's Association for Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care (AAALAC) re-accreditation site visit scheduled to occur in Fiscal Year 2016. Project Requirements: The objective of this contract is to provide prompt, efficient, and high quality research lab technical services, and animal care and research support services necessary to support the DIR's animal research program. This includes prompt, efficient, and high quality animal care including rodent breeding production and supportive internal customer services necessary to support the DIR's animal research program. Tasks will include, but are not limited to: 1. Laboratory Animal Research Support: Contractor personnel shall perform experimental animal and laboratory procedures and techniques according to research protocols established by Federal scientists to support research projects involving animals. 2. Technical Laboratory Animal Services: The Contractor must have trained animal technicians to perform health checks, treatment of sick animals, environmental monitoring check, veterinary technical support services, technical guidance and support of rodent breeding. 3. Psychological Enrichment for Nonhuman Primates: The Contractor shall help by implementing and documenting the established NIDA Nonhuman Primate Environmental Enrichment Program. Contractor personnel must recognize normal and abnormal animal behavior including individualistic idiosyncrasies. Laboratory animal environmental enrichment support includes the maintenance of behavioral assessment records, development and implementation of enrichment devices, and support of primate social housing initiatives. 4. Backup, Emergency, and Consulting Services: The Contractor shall designate and provide mechanisms to contact at least three animal care personnel who are available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year as emergency responders for NIDA animal care program. The Contractor shall establish a contractual arrangement to provide backup emergency coverage for the NIDA veterinarian, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. A Laboratory Animal Medicine Board certified veterinarian must head this service. Individual veterinarians providing this service must have clinical veterinary experience treating the species used at NIDA. 5. Communications: The contractor shall provide reliable animal care staff during and after work hours. 6. Logistical Support and Property Inventory: The Contractor must maintain Government-owned inventories of animal supplies and equipment; receive and inspect deliveries; report animal shipments received from commercial sources to the PI and from non-commercial sources to the Facility Veterinarian; record shipments received; store supplies; and coordinate ordering of supplies with scientific staff. 7. Coordinate Animal Housing Space and Receipt of Lab Animals: The Contractor shall coordinate cage space availability for animals on order; indicate space availability; receive incoming animals; check deliveries against orders; perform physical inspection of containers and animals, sign and note abnormalities on the delivery slip; move animals to proper rooms and place them in cages; and issue delivery receipts. 8. Feeding and Watering of Animals: The Contractor must feed and water all animals housed in the facility daily and keep records of all feeding and watering. 9. Handling and Restraint of Laboratory Animals: The Contractor is responsible for the daily handling and restraint of nonhuman primates, rodents, and any additional species for animal health and husbandry purposes. 10. Cleaning of Animal Housing Areas and Caging Equipment: The Contractor shall keep the animal facilities and support spaces clean and free of contaminants; change contact and non-contact bedding, wash and sanitize cages, racks and associated animal equipment; and coordinate work with pest control personnel. 11. Cleaning Animal Testing Rooms: The Contractor shall provide housekeeping services for animal testing rooms. 12. Vermin Control: The Contractor shall ensure that management procedures within the animal housing rooms, animal testing rooms inside and outside the animal facilities, storage and other areas guard against the harborage of vermin. 13. Animal Health Surveillance and Environmental Monitoring: The Contractor must aid the APD and Facility Veterinarian to implement an Animal Health Surveillance and Environmental Monitoring Program. 14. Equipment and Facilities Maintenance: The Contractor must exercise reasonable care of the Government equipment, including cages, cage racks, sipper tube washers, bedding disposal systems, water bottle and cage washers, floor scrubbers, and water vacuums; and must perform normal routine user maintenance including filter changes. Maintenance needs must be reported to the appropriate maintenance or physical plant personnel to initiate repairs or remediation to ensure health and welfare of NIDA animals and AAALAC accreditation. 15. Maintain Facility Data Systems: The Contractor shall enter data and operate and coordinate the current FileMaker animal facility management program, breeding colony management program and animal health reporting and records program, or future versions/programs. 16. Administrative Support: Contractor administrative support includes telephone answering, fielding general questions to the most knowledgeable animal program staff person or answering on own, clerical, faxing, data entry support, animal and supply inventories, database report generation, written and computerized record keeping, process animal orders by verifying vendor, protocol and space requirements, utilizing computer based protocol tracking systems, and cage card generation, prepare and submit other reports as requested by NIDA DIR. 17. Animal Census: The Contractor must conduct and record weekly animal census data for all species. Anticipated period of performance: 9/1/2015 to 8/31/2015. Capability statement /information sought: Interested organizations must provide clear and convincing documentation of their capability of providing the item(s) specified in this notice. Interested organizations that believe they possess the ability to provide the required services must submit specific documentation of their ability to meet each of the project requirements to the Contract Specialist. Interested organizations must 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 responses to this notice must be submitted electronically to the Contract Specialist and Contracting Officer. Facsimile responses are NOT accepted. All capability statements sent in response to this Sources Sought Notice must be submitted electronically (via email) to Megan Ault, Contract Specialist, at megan.ault@nih.gov in MS Word format by or before the closing date of this announcement. All responses must be received by the specified due date and time in order to be considered. The response must be received on or before May 11, 2015 by 11:00 AM (EDT). Note: This notice does not obligate the Government to award a contract or otherwise pay for the information provided in 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 a review of the responses received, a presolicitation synopsis and solicitation 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 purchase order. No proprietary, classified, confidential, or sensitive information should be included in your response. The Government reserves the right to use any non-proprietary technical information in any resultant solicitation(s).
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- Place of Performance
- Address: NIDA IRP, Biomedical Research Center, 251 Bayview Boulevard, Baltimore, Maryland, 21224, United States
- Zip Code: 21224
- Zip Code: 21224
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