The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences awarded an indefinite delivery contract to BBD Biophenix SL to provide zebrafish assay services. Under the contract vehicle, NIEHS issued four firm fixed price delivery orders valued from $69,230 to $440,536 to the prime contractor for performance in Germany, Spain, and North Carolina. Services include zebrafish bioavailability assays, migration assays using human pluripotent stem cell-derived neural crest cells, and general zebrafish...
The Jackson Laboratory, a nonprofit biomedical research institution located in Bar Harbor, Maine, has been awarded multiple firm fixed price Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) call contracts by the U.S. Department of Defense and Department of the Army Medical Command to provide specialized research animals, including mice, rats, guinea pigs, hamsters, and rabbits, to support medical research programs. These BPA call contracts, valued at over $300,000 in total, will allow the Defense Health Agency,...
This indefinite delivery contract (IDC) with Envigo Global Services Inc., a for-profit manufacturer of goods, supports the acquisition of non-human primates, including cages, freight, and housing, for federal agencies. The $33 million multiple award IDC was issued by the U.S. Army Medical Command with a period of performance through December 2022. Firm fixed price delivery orders have been issued under this IDC for the supply of Chinese cynomolgus macaques (Macaca fascicularis) and...
The Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service awarded Charles River Laboratories, Inc. a single award, indefinite delivery contract with a potential value of $2,439,715.20 to procure fertilized specific pathogen free chicken eggs. The five year contract will provide Premium Plus grade and Research grade eggs to support potency testing and avian leukosis virus research initiatives. Charles River Laboratories was issued the first delivery order against the contract,...
The Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, a Defense agency, awarded a Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) contract to The Jackson Laboratory, a nonprofit biomedical research institution, to provide research rodents in support of biomedical research programs. The BPA has a ceiling value of $1,100,000 and a period of performance from June 1, 2015 to May 31, 2020. Through task orders issued under the BPA, The Jackson Laboratory has delivered research mice, rats, hamsters, and gerbils...
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 Department of the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery awarded a single award indefinite delivery contract to World Wide Primates Inc. to provide Mauritius cynomolgus macaques. No set-aside was used. Two firm fixed price delivery orders totaling $362,450 were issued against the contract for macaque deliveries through August 2023 to a facility in Quail Heights, Florida. The originating solicitation sought an indefinite delivery indefinite quantity contract for up to 225 male Mauritius...
This indefinite delivery contract was awarded by the Defense Health Agency to the University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. (UGA Research Foundation) on February 26, 2024. The contract has a potential value of $2,218,855.20 and a period of performance that extends through February 25, 2029. The purpose of this single-award IDV contract is to procure Plasmodium mosquitoes for research activities conducted by the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR). UGA Research Foundation, a...
The Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences awarded an indefinite delivery contract to The Jackson Laboratory. The contract aims to procure barrier reared and maintained rats, mice, hamsters, gerbils, guinea pigs and rabbits, as well as related biological specimens, surgical and technical procedures, and shipping services. The prime contractor will maintain colonies and deliver research models and technical support...
The Defense Health Agency (DHA) has awarded a Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) with a $25 million ceiling value to Charles River Laboratories, Inc. to provide small laboratory research animals including mice, rats, guinea pigs, hamsters, rabbits, and gerbils, along with shipping and crates. This multiple-award BPA was originally solicited in 2019 and enables DHA's subordinate medical research commands to efficiently procure these critical research models and associated services on an as-needed...