National Cancer Institute, Acquisition Management Branch, TBS, 6120 Executive Blvd, EPS/Rm 603 Bethesda, MD 20892-7220

A -- DEVELOPMENT OF NEW METHODS AND STRATEGIES FOR DIAGNOSIS, TREATMENT AND PREVENTION OF INVASIVE FUNGAL INFECTIONS IN PATIENTS SOL N02-SC-17000-30 DUE 031300 POC Elsa B. Carlton, Contracting Officer, phone (301)435-3811; fax (301)402-6699 WEB: Research Contracts and Acquisition Branch, Current, http://amb.nci.nih.gov. E-MAIL: Elsa B. Carlton, Contracting Officer, (301)435-3811, ec39g@nih.gov. ELECTRONIC RFP ANNOUNCEMENT. THIS RFP MAY BE ACCESSED THROUGH THE RESEARCH CONTRACTS AND ACQUISITION BRANCH (RCAB) HOMEPAGE AT http://amb.nci.nih.gov/ Once you are in the website: double click on "Current Requests for Proposals". INTERESTED OFFERORS WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR DOWNLOADING THEIR OWN COPY OF THE RFP SOLICITATION AND AMENDMENTS. IT IS THE OFFEROR'S RESPONSIBILITY TO MONITOR THE INTERNET SITE FOR THE RELEASE OF THIS SOLICITATION AND AMENDMENTS, IF ANY. The Pediatric Oncology Branch (POB), Division of Clinical Sciences (DCS), National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institutes of Health (NIH) requires that the contractor provide veterinary and laboratory animal care, assessments, and transportation of rabbits. The Contractor shall provide qualified personnel, facilities, material, and equipment to provide for the care, laboratory acclimation, assessment, and delivery of farm bred rabbits. The contractor shall provide for the daily care of rabbits transferred from a breeding colony, ensure their acclimation to a laboratory environment, and deliver them in good health to the Clinical Center located on the Bethesda, Maryland campus of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). An estimated 35 healthy rabbits per month shall be required to be delivered with a flexibility of 25 to 45 rabbits per month. Offerors submitting proposals must have (or provide evidence that they can establish prior to award) the ability to provide the requested service within 24 hours. Mandatory criteria: The offeror must demonstrate the ability to respond to requests on short notice at the facility at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland campus. It is necessary for the offeror to be located within approximately one-half hour from the NIH, Bethesda campus in order to minimize the travel time for the rabbits. Experience has indicated that when rabbits are transported for more than an extended period of time that stress-associated morbidity and mortality increase substantially. Thus, the close proximity to the NIH campus will improve laboratory animal health and reduce costs due to attrition. This procurement represents a recompetition of N01-SC-57223, the same project being performed by Bioqual, Inc. It is anticipated that one fixed price type contract will be awarded for a base period of one year, with four one-year option periods. The RFP N02-SC-17000-30 will be issued on or about January 31, 2000, and due approximately 40 days after the issue date. No collect calls will be accepted. See Note 1. Posted 01/14/00 (W-SN416046). (0014)

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