Animal Husbandry Services and Vivarium Management

This pre-solicitation notice seeks capability statements from small businesses to provide animal husbandry services and vivarium management at facilities operated by the Food and Drug Administration. The base period of performance is one year with four optional one-year extensions utilizing an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract vehicle valued between $5-10 million annually. Interested parties must submit responses by January 5, 2022 demonstrating experience providing animal care, technical procedures, management and regulatory compliance for laboratory animal research programs. The statement of work details requirements for services including animal sanitation, feeding, health monitoring, sample collection, imaging, and recordkeeping to support research at FDA centers in Maryland.

The solicitation carries no set-aside designation and will use NAICS 541940, PSC S206, and R707. The incumbent contractor providing these services is also located in Maryland. Evaluation criteria will include business and technical capabilities, past performance on similar requirements, and responses are limited to 15 pages. Questions regarding the draft statement of work are due by the January 5th deadline to further refine requirements before competitive proposals are solicited under reference number 75F40122R00007.