Support to Naval Health Research Center in the Conduct of Biomedial, Epidemiological and Clinical Research Efforts

The U.S. Army RDECOM Acquisition Center, Natick Contracting Division, Natick, MA on behalf of the Naval Health research Center (NHRC) has a requirement for Omnibus Contract for Support Services. The purpose of Omnibus Contract for Support Services is to provide contractor support services to support the mission of the NHRC, which is to: Manage Operational Medicine research, development, test and evaluation programs for parent commands: Naval Medical Research Command, Silver Springs, MD; Naval Medicine Support Command, Jacksonville, FL; Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Washington, DC. The NHRC mission also includes the requirement to promote, protect, and maintain health of USN and USMC personnel and beneficiaries through biomedical research and support the medical readiness of the armed services, and to provide oversight for the following laboratories: Naval Submarine Medical Research Laboratory, Groton, CT; Naval Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory, Pensacola, FL; Environmental Health Effects Laborat ory, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, OH; and Direct Energy Bio-effects Laboratory, Brooks City-Base, TX. Place of performance will be at NHRC in San Diego, its laboratories mentioned above, recruit training centers, universities, and other military facil ities, depending on which area/section of performance. It is anticipated that there will be nine areas to be supported, and 8 performance objective areas. The North American Industry Classification System code is 541990. The Government envisions contract (s) which include all one or more than one of the following contract types: Firm-Fixed-Price, Cost-Plus-Fixed-Fee, Time and material, and Labor Hours. Contracts will be Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (ID/IQ), in which Task Orders may be issued. C ontracts will be for a base year, with 4 one-year options. The guarantee minimum is anticipated to be $2,500.00 for the length of the each contract, while the maximum would be $9,999,999.99 (which represents the total aggregate dollar value of all contract s). The Government envisions that multiple awards would be made for each area; however, it reserves the right to make no award or to make a single award for a specific area, if in the best interest of the Government. Offerors may proposed on one or more o r their various performance objectives. If for any reason, there are no successful proposals for any performance objective area, or only one successful proposal, the government reserves the right to re-open the solicitation for those respective areas. Offe rors are hereby notified that NHRC support contractors may be advisors to the evaluation panel, and by submitting a proposal, the offeror is consenting to such. A draft solicitation will be posted to the Natick Contracting Divisions website, located at ht tps://www3.natick.army.mil on or about 17-December-2007. Business Opportunities, then to Upcoming Acquisitions then to this solicitation number. The solicitation will be issued on approximately 27-December-2007. Proposals shall be due no later than 12:00 pm on 27-January 2007. Any questions about this requirement must be submitted in writing by 10-January-2007. All proposals shall be sent to the address specified in the solicitation. The point of contact for the solicitation is Thomas Bouchard, at E-mail: Thomas.Bouchard @us.army.mil, telephone at (508) 233-4026, or facsimile at (508) 233-5286. The Government reserves the right to change any of this information.