Animal Care and Laboratory Support Services

Animal Care and Laboratory Support Services
to the Vaccine Research Center
NIHAO201800005

Type of Requirement
Follow-on (Contract No.: HHSN272201400012I)

Place of Performance
Place of performance is known. Address or general location: Contractor's site_

Recompetition
Bioqual, Inc.
9600 Medical Center Drive
Rockville, MD 20850

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: __One Year Base Period with 6 One-year Options

Anticipated award date: __August 26, 2019____

Presolicitation Notice Information

Introduction
As part of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Vaccine Research Center (VRC) Non-Human Primate (NHP) Program has played a critical role in vaccine and therapeutic development for infectious diseases including global killers such as human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
(HIV/ AIDS) and tuberculosis; emerging and re-emerging health threats such as respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), influenza virus, Zika virus, chikungunya virus, West Nile virus, middle east respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV); and "deliberately emerging" threats from potential agents of bioterrorism such as smallpox virus.

Description
The Contractor shall provide qualified personnel, materials, equipment, and facilities for the housing and care of NHPs to support VRC investigators and collaborators developing vaccines and therapeutics for infectious diseases.
The anticipated start date is on/or about August 26, 2019 with a One Year Base and 6 One-year
Options.

Offerors are expected to have the expertise, personnel, and facilities 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 Housing and Care of Non-human Primates (NHPs) provided by the Government, including the housing, feed, veterinary care and technical service support for 600 NHPs each year.
2. Implement an NHP enrichment plan; Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for animal care and holding processes, technical services and procedures, clinical/veterinary care, and colony health management; a Quality Control/Quality Assurance (QC/QA) program to monitor performance of SOPs and maintain program integrity; an Animal Inventory and records system, and IACUC support for reviewing and approving Animal Study Proposals (ASPs).
3. Provide support for VRC investigators and collaborators developing vaccine and therapeutic development for infectious diseases, including the handling and administration of BSL-2 and BSL-3 infectious agents, and may require long-term housing
for overlapping, and labor intensive studies
4. Provide technical procedures on the NHPs, as detailed in the SOW.
5. Ensure that all clinical and pathological specimens designated by the COR are collected and delivered intact, within 2-4 hours of being drawn from the animal, but no later than 12:00 P.M. on the day obtained, to the VRC to achieve optimal and maximum virus
isolation and recovery rates. Furthermore, the Contractor shall make the arrangements to deliver the specimens (e.g., courier) to the VRC in accordance with reasonable methods requested by the COR or designee.
6. Have storage availability for samples and frozen or fixed tissues. Contractor shall have dedicated BSL-2 and BSL-3 space to store samples at 4oC, -20 oC, and -80 oC as requested by VRC. Storage space for fixed tissues shall also be available.

Instructions
Any responsible offeror may submit a proposal which will be considered by the Agency. This RFP will be available electronically on/about September 14, 2018, 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 this solicitation, the NIAID requires proposals to be submitted: Online via the NIAID electronic Contract Proposal Submission (eCPS) website. 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."

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