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AMENDMENT #3

RFP-NIAID-DMID-NIHAI2016059

“PRE-CLINICAL MODELS OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES”

AMENDMENT No. 3

This Amendment is released to the public for information only and should not be construed as a modification to this solicitation. Information provided in this amendment is in response to recent inquiries regarding the preparation of proposals.

Amendment Number: Three (3)

Amendment Issue Date: June 3, 2016

Proposal Due Date: Wednesday, July 13, 2016 5:00 PM EST

(UNCHANGED)

Issued By:

Brian A. Madgey

Contracting Officer Office of Acquisitions, DEA National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases National Institutes of Health 5601 Fishers Lane, Room 3D47

MSC 9821

Rockville, Maryland 20852-9821

Point of Contact:

Brian Madgey., Contracting Officer

Email: madgeyba@mail.nih.gov.

Offerors must acknowledge receipt of the final posting of Amendment #3, on each copy of the proposal submitted. Failure to receive your acknowledgment of this Amendment may result in the rejection of your proposal.

The hour and date specified for receipt of proposals HAS NOT been extended.

THE FOLLOWING PAGES PROVIDE GUIDANCE FROM THE GOVERNMENT ON THE DETAILS OF THIS

REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL (RFP).

mailto:madgeyba@mail.nih.gov.

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Offerors are reminded to read the RFP in its entirety prior to preparing a submission. In particular, Offerors are encouraged to refer to the Scope statement located on page 3 of Attachment 3: Statement of Work for questions pertaining to whether their projects would be appropriate for this solicitation:

“Contracts awarded from this solicitation will provide the capacity and capability needed to develop, refine and use animal and animal replacement models to assess candidate therapeutics, vaccines and diagnostics targeted at infectious diseases. Activities that fall within scope will include natural history of infection, determination of median lethal dose/LD50, serial pathogenesis, product screening, product dose-finding, pharmacokinetics, product safety testing, product efficacy testing, assay development related to the animal model or product being tested, and reagent production and distribution”.

The Government would like to stress the service orientation of this solicitation. Proposal submissions that provide animal models of infectious disease that are inappropriate for use in the evaluation of products (which may be provided by the Government or by a Government-approved third party product sponsor) will not be in scope with this solicitation. Similarly, Offerors lacking the capability to provide such a service will be evaluated accordingly.

Furthermore, Offerors are reminded to refer to Section L of the solicitation, in particular 1.c.2, for an explanation of the contract type that is anticipated:

“It is anticipated that the awards from this solicitation will be Indefinite-Delivery/ Indefinite- Quantity (IDIQ) parent contracts with a Period of Performance of June 30, 2017 to June 29, 2024, and that task orders awarded from the parent contracts will be fully funded for the base period and subsequent option quantities/periods, if exercised.”

And the mechanism by which task orders will eventually be solicited and awarded Section L, 1.d.a:

“The Contractor will be required to provide services under the resultant contract only in performance of task orders and modifications to task orders signed by the Contracting Officer….[o]ne or more task orders may be issued during the performance period of the resultant contract. If a contractor responds to a Task Order Request for Proposal (TORFP) and is the successful offeror, that Contractor will be required to accept and perform the task order issued by the Contracting Officer within the scope of the resultant contract.”

Finally, Offerors should note the instructions pertaining to proposing qualifications for and submitting sample task order proposals to the different Task Areas as described in detail in Attachment 5:

Additional Technical Proposal Instructions, in particular the following located under Technical Proposal

– Table of Contents:

“Offerors may propose on any or all tasks, and must provide separate technical proposals for each proposed task. Offerors should submit to Task Areas where they are capable to best meet the overall qualifications needed to fulfill the technical requirements of that Task Area. The Technical Proposal shall address all elements of the proposed Task Area(s) and detailed plans in response to the Sample Task Order(s) matching the proposed Task Area(s). Proposals will be

RFP-NIAID-DMID-NIHAI2016059 Page 3 of 3 evaluated for the Task Area combination the offeror proposes with no adjustment of the technical plan/approach evaluation factor total weight. The choice to propose to more than one task area will not weigh in favor of or against an Offeror’s proposal, however should an Offeror choose to propose to more than one Task Area, each sample task order will be evaluated equally.

The Government may limit the number of proposals in the competitive range to the greatest number that will permit an efficient competition among the most highly rated proposals. For this reason, Offerors are encouraged to respond only to the Task Areas in which they have demonstrable qualifications.”