Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (PGO), 255 East Paces Ferry Road, N.E., Room 419, Atlanta, Georgia 30305

R -- PROFESSIONAL, ADMINISTRATIVE AND MANAGEMENT SUPPORT SERVICES POC Wanda Allison, Contract Specialist, (404) 842-6553 The Centers for Disease Contract and Prevention (CDC) and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) plan to establish a government-owned, contractor-operated CDC and ATSDR Specimen and Data Bank which will ensure that valuable collections of several million aliquots of primarily human biological materials, ranging from blood components, tissue, bacterial isolates, DNA, and environmental specimens, obtained through CDC and ATSDR programs and activities, are properly inventoried, securely stored, maintained, and managed, and when requested, delivered/distributed (by mail or contractor-provided courier between 3 Atlanta CDC facilities) to various geographic locations/laboratories. THE CONTRACTOR MUST DEMONSTRATE EXPERIENCE IN HANDLING HUMAN BIOLOGICAL/POTENTIALLY INFECTIOUS MATERIALS. These materials will be inventoried and stored under controlled optimal conditions, primarily in vapor-phase liquid nitrogen (LN2) freezers in the Atlanta area. The contractor will be required to know how to work in liquid nitrogen and will be responsible for monitoring and responding to alarms. Some specimens will be stored in -70 C mechanical freezers, in a -20 C walk-in, and a 4 C walk-in refrigerator. The contractor will also be required to monitor alarms for these freezers. Maintenance of the liquid nitrogen system and freezers will be the responsibility of the contractor. The contractor will be required to operate and support an existing in-house tracking software system. This will include training users when needed. This in-house system, which interfaces with several different types of software programs, will assist researchers in locating collections of specimens for possible testing. The software also catalogs, stores data (i.e., epidemiological, test, etc.), tracks, and assists in retrieval of individual specimens or collections. Initially, in addition to the day-to-day operation of the Specimen Bank, the contractor will need to do a limited inventory of all specimens/collections at CDC and ATSDR and assist in determining which specimens/collections will be deposited into the Specimen Bank. In order to do this, the contractor will need to provide qualified personnel to work on inventory teams to assist in the identification and transport of materials (via contractor-provided transportation) from other locations to the site of the Specimen Bank. (In some instances, this could mean transporting a whole freezer 30 miles.) The contractor will also provide qualified personnel to work on aliquoting teams to transfer (aliquot) specimens that can be stored in liquid nitrogen into liquid nitrogen-compatible containers. The government will provide all facilities, equipment, and expendables for these functions. The SIC code for this project will be 8744 which has small business size standard of $5 million for the preceding three fiscal years. Please provide name, address, business size to Wanda A. Allison, CDC/PGO, MS E-01, 255 East Paces Road, Atlanta, GA 30305. Response to this notice will be used for set-aside determination. (0283)

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