The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded a $99 million Indefinite Delivery Contract (IDC) for Laboratory Animal Procurement to Taconic Biosciences, Inc. This multiple award IDC enables NIH institutes, centers, and other federal health organizations to efficiently order a range of laboratory animals, including custom-engineered transgenic rodent models, to support their biomedical research objectives. Under this IDC, Taconic...
The National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences awarded an indefinite delivery contract to Envigo RMS LLC to provide barrier-reared rodents, animal services, and biological specimens. The contract includes a base period of one year from December 2018 to June 2024, with potential value of $499,111. Task orders issued against the contract have values ranging from $15,000 to $85,000 for products and services delivered to Envigo's facility in Castleton,...
The National Institutes of Health National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences awarded an indefinite delivery contract to Charles River Laboratories, Inc. to provide barrier-reared laboratory animals and specialized animal services. The contract has a potential value of $2.3 million with a period of performance from December 2018 through June 2024. Charles River will serve as the prime contractor under the award. The contract aims to efficiently and cost-effectively supply...
This indefinite delivery contract (IDC) was awarded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), a civilian agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The single-award contract, valued up to $300,000, was issued to Envigo RMS LLC, a for-profit manufacturer and provider of nonclinical research models, animal feeds, bedding, and veterinary services for federal biomedical research programs. The contract's purpose is to provide the NIEHS with a wide...
This Indefinite Delivery Contract (IDC) was awarded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), a civilian agency within the Department of Health and Human Services, to Envigo Rms, Inc., doing business as Teklad Diets. The contract, which has a ceiling value of $22,971,072, is for the provision of barrier-reared and maintained rodents of various strains, sex, age, weight, genotype, and with pregnancy and surgery requirements. This is not a set-aside contract. Envigo...
The key products and services being delivered under this federal contract IDV award are genetically engineered and modified mice and rats, as well as related breeding and laboratory services, to support biomedical research efforts across multiple U.S. government agencies. The prime contractor, Taconic Biosciences, Inc., holds a $99 million Indefinite Delivery Contract for Laboratory Animal Procurement with the NIH Office of Logistics and Acquisition Operations, allowing NIH institutes and...
The National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) awarded a single award indefinite delivery contract (IDC) to Tecniplast USA, Inc., a manufacturer of specialized laboratory equipment and supplies, valued up to $3,000,000 through March 2026. This contract allows NIEHS to place firm-fixed price delivery orders for supplies and maintenance related to Tecniplast's individually ventilated caging (IVC) systems used in the Institute's animal research...
This indefinite delivery contract was awarded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), a civilian federal agency, to Charles River Laboratories, Inc. The $1.5 million single-award contract has a period of performance through June 2029 and aims to provide NIEHS with barrier-reared and maintained rats, mice, hamsters, gerbils, and guinea pigs, as well as specialized animal services. Charles River Laboratories is a global company that supplies essential products and...
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded an Indefinite Delivery Contract (IDC) to Charles River Laboratories, Inc. to provide a range of specialized laboratory animal products and services to support biomedical research. The $99.5 million multiple award contract, awarded on September 19, 2019, covers the supply of barrier-reared and maintained rabbits, rats, mice, hamsters, gerbils, and guinea pigs to the NIH's Division of Veterinary Resources. In addition to providing the live...
The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences awarded an indefinite delivery contract to Lab Animal Supplies Inc. to provide laboratory animal supplies and enrichment. The contract has a potential value of $540,000 and a period of performance through August 31, 2027. No set-aside designation was applied. Two firm fixed price delivery orders have been awarded against the contract to date, for $83,988 and $39,654, with periods of performance also through August 31, 2027. The first...
The National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences awarded an indefinite delivery contract to Taconic Biosciences, Inc. for the provision of barrier-reared rodents and specialized animal services. The contract has a potential value of $2.9 million over a six-year period of performance from December 2018 through June 2024.
Under the contract, Taconic Biosciences will supply various strains of barrier-reared rats, mice, hamsters, gerbils and guinea pigs meeting specified health, age and other requirements to support research programs at NIEHS. Services include breeding, maintenance and shipping of research animals from facilities in New York. The contractor also provides surgical and technical procedures, embryo cryopreservation, animal rederivation and quarantine services.
The original solicitation sought to establish an efficient purchasing mechanism for research animals while maintaining compliance with health monitoring and regulations. Nine delivery orders have been issued to date for animals, services and specialized support valued at over $1.5 million, with work taking place at Taconic Biosciences locations in Germantown and Hudson, New York.