Research Assistant Services

The Veteran's Administration Office of Research and Development, Program Contracting Office - East in Pittsburgh, PA intends to negotiate on a sole source basis with the Core Research Facilities of the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC). The requirement is for medical research assistance support for Veteran's Health Administration medical study projects. The sole source is pursuant to FAR 6.302-3 (2) (ii). Full and Open Competition need not be provided for when it is necessary to award the contract to a particular source or sources in order to establish or maintain an essential engineering, research, or development capability to be provided by an educational or other nonprofit institution or a federally funded research and development center. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals, however; any responsible source who believes it is capable of meeting the requirement may submit a capability statement to the contracting office no later than Wednesday, January 26, 2015, (3:00PM, EST). Interest/capability statements may be sent to Michael Haydo at Michael.haydo@va.gov. No telephone responses will be accepted. A determination not to compete the proposed requirement based upon the responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government.

The required research assistance services shall include the following as a minimum:



" Antibody Assistance

" Laser Capture Microdissection



" Biomedical Imaging Capabilities

" Lipidomics Shared Resources



" Biorepository & Tissue Analysis Resources

" Mass Spectrometry Assistance



" Biostatistics & Epidemiology Collaboration

" Metabolomics Assistance



" Biostatistics Shared Resource (HCC)

" Mineralized Tissue Assistance



" Cell Evaluation & Therapy Shared Resources

" Molecular Morphology and Imaging



" Cell & Molecular Imaging Shared Resources

" Nephrology Proteomics Laboratory



" Cell Growth & Therapy Collaboration

" Nuclear Magnetic Resonance



" Clinical Trials Office - HCC

" Nucleic Acid Analysis Capabilities



" Computational Biology Resource Center

" Oral Preclinical Research



" Confocal & Multiphoton Microscopy

" Protein Production Laboratory



" Data Coordination

" ProteoGenomics Capabilities



" Drug Design and Synthesis Collaboration

" Public Health Sciences Collaborative Unit



" Drug Discovery & Screening Shared Resources

" Seahorse Bioscience Academic Capabilities



" Drug Metabolism and Clinical Pharmacology

" shRNA Shared Technology Resources



" Flow Cytometry Capabilities

" Small Animal Imaging Capabilities



" Flow Cytometry & Cell Sorting Collaboration

" SCTR Research Coordination & Management

" Fluorescence Imaging Plate Reader

" Transgenic Mouse Core Capabilities



" Gene Targeting and Knockout Mouse

" Translational Research Shared Resource



" Genomics Shared Resource Capabilities

" X-ray Crystallography Resource



" Gnotobiotic Animal Research Capabilities

" Xenograft Capabilities



" Irradiator Capabilities

" Center for Oral Health Research

" Laboratory Animal Research Collaboration " Pathology and Lab. Med. Capabilities