HHS-NIH-NIAID-BAA2025-1 - Amendment Six.pdf

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NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY & INFECTIOUS DISEASES (NIAID)

2026 DMID Omnibus Broad Agency Announcement (BAA):

No. HHS-NIH-NIAID-BAA2025-1

Solicitation Amendment Six (6)

Issuing Office: OFFICE OF ACQUISITIONS

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)

5601 Fishers Lane, Room 3D38, MSC 9821

Bethesda, MD 20892-9821

Solicitation Number: HHS-NIH-NIAID-BAA2025-1

Date of Solicitation Issuance: November 22, 2024

Date of Amendment Six Issuance January 16, 2025

Number of Pages: Two (2)

Proposal Due Dates: The hour and date specified for receipt of offers for each

Research Area remains unchanged:

RESEARCH

AREA

TITLE PROPOSALS DUE*

Development of Candidate

Therapeutics, Vaccines, and In Vitro

Diagnostics for Antimicrobial-Resistant

(AMR) Bacterial or Fungal Pathogens

February 21, 2025

Development of Direct Acting

Antivirals (DAA) for Viral Families of

Pandemic Potential

January 21, 2025

* Proposals must be received before 3:00 PM Eastern Time on the date specified herein.

Contracting Office Points of Contact:

Primary Contact:

Swee L. Teo, Contracting Officer

Email: teosl@niaid.nih.gov

Phone: 240-669-5173

Offerors MUST acknowledge receipt of the amendment by Amendment number(s) and date of the amendment. Failure to receive your acknowledgment of this amendment may result in the rejection of your proposal.

mailto:teosl@niaid.nih.gov

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Except as provided herein, all terms and conditions of the solicitation remain unchanged and in full force and effect.

The cut-off date for questions for each Research Area is:

• Research Area 001 – February 10, 2025

• Research Area 002 – January 10, 2025

A final Amendment will be posted within a week after each cut-off date. Questions received thereafter may not be addressed.

PURPOSE OF AMENDMENT SIX (6)

The purpose of Amendment Six (6) is to:

I. Update the “Original Date Offers Due” in the SAM.Gov system to February 21, 2025, 3:00pm EST for Research Area 001. Please note that the “Date Offers Due” for Research Area 002 remains unchanged at January 21, 2025, 3:00pm EST.

In eCPS, the 2026 Omnibus BAA is separated into four (4) separate solicitations which correspond to each of the two (2) Research Areas, including each of the three (3) Topic numbers for Research Area 001. An Offeror shall ensure that its proposal is submitted to the

Research Area and Topic number, if applicable, to which it is applying for in eCPS.

II. Provide the NIAID’s response to questions received regarding the solicitation. The responses are offered for information only and do not modify or become part of this solicitation. Additional amendments may be provided as needed to address further questions and their related responses.

Due to the competitive nature of the BAA, NIAID cannot provide any technical direction or feedback regarding an offeror’s specific technical approach.

Please note, in the questions/responses below, specific organizational names have been removed or replaced where possible as well as other minor adjustments.

I. GOVERNMENT RESPONSES:

The Government’s responses to questions received regarding this solicitation are as follows:

A. GENERAL QUESTIONS APPLICABLE TO ALL RESEARCH AREAS:

Question 1: Do we need to submit a separate excel spreadsheet template for each option or would we just add a new tab for the options?

Response: You should include the Base and each option, if proposed, in one (1) Summary of

Proposed Cost template. You can edit the template, such as revising Periods I and II headings to Base and Option 1, respectively, as well as the period/dates for each column, as appropriate.

For subcontractors, please see response to question 3d of Amendment Three posted on

December 18, 2024.