Rodent Behavioral Models to Identify Substance Use Disorder Pharmacotherapies

This solicitation from the National Institute on Drug Abuse seeks rodent behavioral testing services to support the Addiction Treatment Discovery Program. Offerors must demonstrate the ability to provide mouse locomotor activity, rat drug discrimination, mouse conditioned place preference, and rat self-administration assays. Proposals will be evaluated based on technical qualifications, past performance, and price. Questions are due by September 30th, 2022 and proposals are due October 20th, 2022. Award of the fixed-price IDIQ contract is expected to begin January 2023 with one base year and four option years, and all work must be completed by January 2028.

The solicitation contains no set-aside designations. The primary NAICS code is 541715 and PSC code R425. The incumbent contractor is [Contractor Name]. The maximum contract value is $5 million over the five-year period. Services will be performed at the contractor's facilities to provide the specified rodent behavioral testing for a minimum of 50 samples per year. Place of performance is the contractor's location with potential for some work to be done at NIH facilities.