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

Type of Requirement

Follow-on (Contract No.:HHSN272201300007C

Place of Performance

Place of performance is known. Address or general location: Morgan Island, near Beaufort, South Carolina.

Recompetition

Charles River Laboratories
251 Ballardvale Street
Wilmington, MA 01887

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: 5 Years (Inclusive of 4 Option Years)

If Options will be included, describe Options:
Option Year I (December 15, 2018 through December 14, 2019)
Option Year II (December 15, 2019 through December 14, 2020)
Option Year III (December 15, 2020 through December 14, 2021)
Option Year IV (December 15, 2021 through December 14, 2022

Anticipated award date: December 15, 2017

Presolicitation Notice Information

Introduction

Morgan Island is a free-ranging rhesus colony that has been in place for over 30 years. The colony consists of approximately 2800 Indian-origin rhesus monkeys and has been a closed colony with no additional animals being added for over 25 years. The colony is used to provide animals for the critical research within the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and with its collaborators. The Contractor must work closely with the Government to oversee and manage the colony. This team approach is essential to preserving this critical resource as well as maintaining due diligence in being good stewards of the island, the surrounding wet lands and water ways. The intention of the Government is to maintain this colony in its existing location near Beaufort, South Carolina (SC) for the foreseeable future. The island colony poses specific logistical challenges and requires personnel commitments on behalf of the Contractor.

Description

The objectives of this contract are the operation and daily care of a year-round outdoor breeding colony of free-ranging Indian-origin Macaca mulatta (rhesus monkeys). The actual base size of the colony is expected to be approximately 2800-3000 animals at the initiation of this contract. The Contractor shall be responsible for accepting the colony at the designated site with existing facilities and arranging for the lease of Morgan Island from the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources. The colony is currently located on Morgan Island, near Beaufort, SC. Morgan Island will be utilized solely for Government-owned animals provided hereunder or progeny from facilities and resources related to this contract on Morgan Island. The Contractor will be required to maintain Morgan Island as well as the mainland dock that is utilized for access to the island. Morgan Island nor the dock sites will be utilized to support any other animals that may be located at the Contractor's facilities; these are stand-alone facilities and shall not be used to support other activities.

The Government estimates that the size and scope of this requirement will require approximately 10-15 full time employees. Employees working on this requirement will be required to meet the minimum mandatory qualifications as they will be described in the solicitation. Proposals will be evaluated for Technical Approach and Capability, Corporate Resources and Personnel, Corporate Experience.

Any responsible offeror may submit a proposal which will be considered by the Agency. This RFP will be available electronically on/about November 6, 2017, 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 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."