Blood Safety Technical Assistance Services

This Master IDIQ, awarded by the CDC Office of Acquisition Services on September 8, 2010, procures blood safety technical assistance services in support of PEPFAR operations across up to 37 foreign countries. The ordering period closed on September 7, 2015, and the vehicle is no longer active.

The scope spans policy and guideline development, infrastructure and capacity building, blood collection, testing and production of blood and blood products, transfusion and utilization, monitoring and evaluation, training, sustainability, and quality control and assurance. Task orders funded work in specific countries including Papua New Guinea, Cambodia, Zimbabwe, Angola, Swaziland, Lesotho, Afghanistan, D.R. Congo, Mali, and Ghana, with most orders pricing on a cost-no-fee basis and completion dates concentrated in 2012–2014.

The vehicle awarded 11 task orders between April 2011 and September 2011 to three distinct prime contractors. American Association Of Blood Banks, Inc. dominates with 7 orders totaling $7.7 million in combined potential value, followed by Safe Blood For Africa with 3 orders worth $2 million and Regents Of The University Of Minnesota with 1 order of $488 thousand. All task orders are unrestricted (no set-aside used). CDC Pittsburgh was the sole customer agency across all 11 awards.

The vehicle carries a combined potential value of $10.2 million, of which $4.6 million has been obligated (45 percent). Most task orders carried ceilings ranging from roughly $180,000 to $768,000; one Swaziland task order carried an outlier ceiling of $4.517 million. Several orders obligated zero dollars despite ceiling values, indicating planned work that may not have been fully drawn down. All task orders price on a cost-no-fee or firm-fixed-price basis, typical of technical assistance contracting.

Because ordering has been closed for a decade, this vehicle presents no active pursuit opportunity.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Procurement and Grants Office (PGO), International Branch, has awarded a Master IDIQ for the acquisition of Blood Safety Technical Assistance Services to be provided in up to 37 foreign countries in support of the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). Blood safety technical assistance services provided by the contractors are in the areas of: Policy and Guideline Development and Governance; Infrastructure and Capacity Building; Blood Collection; Testing and Production of Blood and Blood Products; Transfusion and Utilization; Monitoring and Evaluation; Training; Sustainability; and Quality Control/Assurance and Management in countries and regions supported by the PEPFAR program.