Administrative, Logistical, Custodial and Facility Support Services for the VRC

Administrative, Logistical, Custodial and Facility Support Services for the VRC
75N93019R00026

Type of Requirement

0 New Requirement
1 Follow-on (Contract No.:HHSN272201600041C)
0 Other (specify):________________

Place of Performance

0 Place of performance is unknown at this time
1 Place of performance is known. Address or general location: Gaithersburg area, Maryland

Recompetition

Innovative Consulting & Management Services, LLC
7338 Baltimore Avenue, Suite 108A
College Park, MD 20740

Contracting Office Address

Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Office of Acquisitions, 5601 Fishers Lane, MSC 9821, Bethesda, MD, 20892-9821

Duration of contract: 1 base year with 2 options years

2 Option years follow the base year. There are also Level of Effort Options that may be awarded up to three times in each year.

Anticipated award date: July 27, 2020

Presolicitation Notice Information

Introduction
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH), of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) supports research related to the basic understanding of microbiology and immunology leading to the development of vaccines, therapeutics, and medical diagnostics for the prevention, treatment, and diagnosis of infectious and immune-mediated diseases. The NIAID, VRC has a requirement for administrative, logistical, custodial and facility support to maintain the research laboratory and adjacent administrative space for combined use of the VRC.

Description

The Contractor shall provide administrative, logistical, custodial, and facility support to maintain the research laboratory and adjacent administrative space for the combined use of VRC's Vaccine Immunology Program (VIP) and the Vaccine Production Program (VPP), which are housed off the NIH main campus.

The anticipated start date is on/or about July 27, 2020 with a One Year Base and 2 One Year Options, as well as 9 level of effort options. This shall require 2.25 FTEs per year, plus up to 1 level of effort FTE that may be exercised up to three times per year.

Offerors are expected to have the expertise, experience, and personnel to meet the requirements of the project, and be able to demonstrate their capability to perform this requirement, with particular attention to the following areas:

1. Provide facility manager and support personnel to maintain all necessary components of the operation of the facility core infrastructure needed to support the day-to-day needs of staff housed at the facility supporting the VRC.
2. Maintain the leased space for the current facilities located at 9 West Watkins Mill Road, Gaithersburg, MD.
3. Provide for continuity of operations for the laboratory in case of unforeseen interruption of facility utilities.
4. Provide custodial services for all leased spaces adherent to GLP/GMP requirements.
5. Provide oversight of the building security and visitor access.
6. Provide an electronic tracking system for project activities and inventory.

Any responsible offeror may submit a proposal which will be considered by the Agency. This RFP will be available electronically on/about November 18, 2019, and may be accessed through FedBizOpps http://www.fedbizopps.gov/. This notice does not commit the Government to award a contract. No collect calls will be accepted. No facsimile transmissions will be accepted.

For solicitations where proposals will be received via the NIAID electronic Contract Proposal Submission (eCPS) website (ALL R&D solicitations MUST be in eCPS) add the following:

For this solicitation, the NIAID requires proposals to be submitted via two methods: (1)
Disc (CD or DVD) and (2) Online via the NIAID electronic Contract Proposal Submission (eCPS) website. The content of the disc and online proposals must be identical. Submission of proposals by facsimile or e-mail is not acceptable.

For directions on using eCPS, go to the website https://ecps.nih.gov and then click on "How to Submit."