Building 49 Central Animal Facility Emergency/Disaster Event Preparation: Animal Feed/Bedding/Enrichment Procurement, Storage, & Delivery
Closed Pre-Solicitation Posted
- Solicitation number
- NOI-NIH-26-PCA-NEI-03513
- Agency
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Office of Logisitics and Acquisition Operations
National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services
- Responses due
- Set-aside
- No set-aside
Opportunity facts
- NAICS code
- 311119 Other Animal Food Manufacturing
- PSC
- 8710 Forage And Feed
- Place of performance
- Bethesda, Maryland 20892, United States
Notice details come from SAM.gov. Updated .
About this opportunity
The National Institutes of Health intends to negotiate a sole-source contract with Animal Specialties and Provisions, LLC for laboratory animal feed, bedding, produce, enrichment items, and related dry goods, with capability statements due by May 27, 2026. The statutory authority for this other-than-full-and-open-competition procurement is 41 U.S.C. 1901(a)(1) as implemented by FAR 13.106-1(b).
The requirement encompasses standard rodent chow (maintenance, breeding, irradiated, and certified diets), specialty research diets, nonhuman primate chow and biscuits, rabbit diets, agricultural species diets, and bedding materials (corn cob, paper-based, hardwood, or approved alternatives), along with fresh produce and enrichment feed items. All products must meet strict quality, nutritional, traceability, and contamination control standards required for regulated research environments and must comply with applicable animal care regulations and accreditation standards. The contractor must provide all labor, materials, transportation, logistics, and quality control necessary for supply and delivery to multiple NIH animal research facilities.
Place of performance and delivery is Building 49, Central Animal Facility, Bethesda, Maryland 20892. The contract period runs from September 21, 2026, through September 20, 2027, with four additional option years. All responsible sources may submit a capability statement by email to danielle.tines@nih.gov with subject line referencing NOI-NIH-26-PCA-NEI-03513 by 11:00 a.m. Eastern Standard Time on May 27, 2026. NAICS 311119; PSC 8710.
Notice text
PRE-SOLICITATION NOTICE
ID: NOI-NIH-26-PCA-NEI-03513
Post Date: May 13, 2026
Response Date: May 27, 2026
NAICS: 311119
Product Service Code: 8710 Forage and Feed
This is a Notice of Intent, NOT a request for proposal. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) intends to negotiate on an other than full and open competition basis with Animal Specialties and Provisions, LLC (ASP) for this requirement to provide laboratory animal feed, bedding, produce, enrichment, and related dry goods.
Description of need:
The contractor must provide all labor, materials, transportation, logistics, and quality control necessary to supply and deliver laboratory animal feed, bedding, produce, enrichment feed items, and related dry goods to multiple NIH animal research facilities. These supplies include, but are not limited to:
- Standard rodent chow (maintenance, breeding, irradiated, and certified diets)
- Specialty research diets
- Nonhuman primate chow and biscuits
- Rabbit diets and agricultural species diets
- Bedding materials (corn cob, paper-based, hardwood, or approved alternatives)
- Fresh produce and enrichment feed items
All products must meet strict quality, nutritional, traceability, and contamination control standards necessary for regulated research environments and must comply with applicable animal care regulations and accreditation standards.
Period of Performance: 9/21/2026 – 9/20/2027, and additional 4 option years
Place of Performance: Bethesda, MD 20892
Deliver to: Bldg 49, Central Animal Facility, Bethesda MD 20892
The statutory authority for this sole source requirement is 41 U.S.C. 1901 (a) (1) as implemented by FAR 13.106-1(b) only one responsible source and no other supply of service will satisfy agency requirements. THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL. THIS IS NOT A SOLICITATION FOR COMPETITIVE QUOTATIONS. All responsible sources that could provide the required services may submit a capability statement that will be considered by email (subject line to reference NOI-NIH-26-PCA-NEI-03513 to Danielle Tines, danielle.tines@nih.gov, by 11:00 am eastern standard time Wednesday, May 27, 2026. All responses received by the closing date of this notice will be considered by the Government. A determination not to compete this requirement, based upon responses to this notice, is solely within the discretion of the Government.
This notice does not obligate the Government to award a contract or otherwise pay for any information provided in response. The Government reserves the right to use information provided by respondents for any purpose deemed necessary and legally appropriate. Any organization responding to this notice should ensure that its response is complete and sufficiently detailed to allow the Government to determine the organization's qualifications to perform the work. Respondents are advised that the Government is under no obligation to acknowledge receipt of the information received or provide feedback to respondents with respect to any information submitted.
Files
| File | Type | Posted |
|---|---|---|
| NOI-PCA-NEI-03513.pdf |
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