Breed and Maintain Free-Ranging Macaca Mulatta (Rhesus) Monkeys

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Solicitation number
75N93022R00032
Agency
Responses due
Set-aside
Total Small Business

Opportunity facts

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About this opportunity

This notice seeks capability statements from small businesses to operate and maintain a free-ranging breeding colony of approximately 3000 rhesus monkeys located on Morgan Island, South Carolina. The Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases is soliciting these capability statements not exceeding 15 pages by August 12, 2022 from businesses demonstrating experience with non-human primate care and island operations, and describing staffing, regulatory compliance, and quality assurance plans.

This is a total small business set-aside assigned NAICS code 541990 with a size standard of $15 million. The incumbent contractor is Charles River Laboratories. The anticipated base period of performance is from March 27, 2023 through March 26, 2024 with four one-year option periods. Key requirements include maintaining the colony, ensuring animal welfare, managing facilities, keeping records, and reporting.

Notice text

This is a Small Business Sources Sought notice. This is NOT a solicitation for proposals, proposal abstracts, or quotations. The purpose of this notice is to obtain information regarding: (1) the availability and capability of qualified small business sources; (2) whether they are small businesses; HUBZone small businesses; service-disabled, veteran-owned small businesses; 8(a) small businesses; veteran-owned small businesses; woman-owned small businesses; or small disadvantaged businesses; and (3) their size classification relative to the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for the proposed acquisition. Your responses to the information requested will assist the Government in determining the appropriate acquisition method, including whether a set-aside is possible. An organization that is not considered a small business under the applicable NAICS code should not submit a response to this notice. This requirement is assigned a code of 541990 in the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), and the size standard for such requirements is $15.0 million.
 

Your response to the information requested will assist the Government in determining the appropriate acquisition method, including whether a set-aside is possible. An organization that is not considered a small business under the applicable NAICS code should not submit a response to this notice.
 

A determination by the Government not to compete this requirement as a set-aside based upon responses to this Notice is solely within the discretion of the Government.
 

Interested parties are expected to review this Notice and the draft Statement of Work to familiarize themselves with the requirements of this project; failure to do so will be at your firm's own risk.

Files

File Type Posted
Sources Sought Notice (Morgan Island Recompete).pdf PDF

Notice history

Notice Type Posted
Breed and Maintain Free-Ranging Macaca Mulatta (Rhesus) Monkeys Award Award Notice
Breed and Maintain Free-Ranging Macaca Mulatta (Rhesus) Monkeys Latest solicitation Solicitation
Breed and Maintain Free-Ranging Macaca Mulatta (Rhesus) Monkeys Pre-Solicitation
This notice Original Pre-Solicitation

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