Rhesus Macaque Breeding Program Maintenance

The National Institutes of Health awarded a Master IDIQ on February 19, 2014, to provide housing, feeding, maintenance, and logistical support for two specific pathogen-free breeding colonies of Indian-origin rhesus macaques (totaling approximately 600 and 200 animals with growth capacity) for the Vaccine Research Center, with a combined potential value of $15.02 million across all task orders; however, the last date to order against this vehicle closed on June 6, 2019, and no new orders may be placed.

Nine task orders have been awarded with a combined potential value of $9 million, of which $8.4 million (93 percent) has been obligated. Activity concentrated in 2014–2015, with orders declining sharply thereafter; the most recent task order was awarded in November 2018. All task orders are unrestricted (no set-aside). The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases placed all nine orders, funding the full $9 million combined value.

University of Louisiana at Lafayette holds the largest share by value with three orders totaling $6.1 million combined potential value; Primate Products, Inc. holds two orders worth $2.2 million combined potential value; and Alpha Genesis Inc. holds four orders worth $767 thousand combined potential value. Competition is limited to these three primes across nine awards.

Task orders are for maintenance of the specific pathogen-free breeding program, including housing and care, veterinary services, laboratory diagnostics, animal quarantine, identification and records management, and animal shipping. Orders are structured as firm fixed-price delivery orders with typical completion dates between 2019 and 2022. The largest single order was a maintenance contract to University of Louisiana at Lafayette awarded July 1, 2015, with a ceiling value of $3.77 million.

This vehicle is inactive for new pursuit. Any engagement would require either discovering an undocumented renewal or successor vehicle or, in the unlikely event of a gap-filling order, demonstrating prime contractor status with the three incumbents or prior award history under the original IDIQ.

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded a Master IDIQ to provide all facilities, equipment, personnel, and other resources necessary to house, feed, and maintain two specific pathogen-free (SPF) breeding colonies of Indian-origin rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) for the purpose of providing the Vaccine Research Center with up to one hundred fifty (150) juvenile macaques per year for the duration of the contract. The rhesus macaque colonies are approximately 600 and 200 primates divided into subgroups, but subject to increase through breeding or infusions of additional animals; therefore the contractor must have the capacity to handle growth potential of the colony.To support the breeding program, the Contractor shall be required to provide a variety of logistical and clinical support services including veterinary care, laboratory and diagnostic pathology; animal quarantine; animal identification and records keeping/analysis; and animal shipping.