Culture and isolation of malaria liver stage parasites 2017-2019

The United States Department of Naval Medical Research Center (NMRC) intends to award a sole source contract to Princeton University, Office of Research and Project Administraton, Princeton, NJ. 08544. This notice is not a request for competitive proposals however if interested, please submit your capability statement and your proposal with the coswt for each effor. The government shall considerall responses.


Tasker for Isolation, Microscopy, and Characterization of Malaria Liver States:

1. House 15 breeding pairs of mice for 12 months.
2. Infect mice containing humanized livers with Plasmodium falciparum sporozoites     
    (supplied by NMRC).
3. Perform laser-capture-microdissection of immuno-stained parasites.
4. Transfer LCM parasites to NMRC.

See attached statement of work for detailed info.

The NAICS code for this actions is 541712. This requirement will be procured under the guidelines of FAR Part 12 Commercial item. NMRC requires that all contractors doing doing business with the Acquisition Office must be registered with the System for Award Management (SAM). No award can be made unless the vendor is registered in System for Award Management. For additional information and to register in SAM, please access the following website: http://www.sam.gov/  In order to register with the SAM and to be eligible to receive an award from this Acquisition Office, all offers must have a DUN & Bradstreet Number. A Dun & Bradstreet number may be acquired free of charge by contacting Dun & Bradstreet online at https://www.dnb.com/proudcts/eupdate/requestOptions.html or by phone at (800) 333-0505.