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FBO DAILY ISSUE OF MAY 19, 2012 FBO #3829
SOLICITATION NOTICE

R -- Operation and Maintenance of a Murine Pathogen-Free Breeding Facility

Notice Date
5/17/2012
 
Notice Type
Presolicitation
 
NAICS
541990 — All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
 
Contracting Office
Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases/AMOB, 10401 Fernwood Drive, Suite 2NE70, MSC 4811, Bethesda, Maryland, 20817
 
ZIP Code
20817
 
Solicitation Number
NIHAO2012070
 
Point of Contact
Terrie L Nestor, Phone: 301-402-6790, Afua Serwah-Asibey, Phone: 301-402-5644
 
E-Mail Address
tnestor@niaid.nih.gov, serwahasibeya@mail.nih.gov
(tnestor@niaid.nih.gov, serwahasibeya@mail.nih.gov)
 
Small Business Set-Aside
N/A
 
Description
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Division of Intramural Research (DIR) has a requirement for all necessary services, qualified personnel, material, equipment and facilities for the operation and maintenance of a murine pathogen-free mouse breeding facility. The contractor must be Association for Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care (AAALAC) and shall maintain a barrier design facility for approximately 5400 breeding and production cages of inbred, congenic, transgenic and DNA-mediated gene targeted mutant mice and their offspring. The Contractor shall hold all mice arriving at the facility in a quarantine area physically removed and independently staffed and maintained from the barrier facility. The quarantine area shall provide NIAID with a minimum of 6 polyfilm flexible isolators (72 cages) or their equivalent for housing and strain expansion when necessary before derivation. In addition, the contractor shall perform various laboratory procedures, including but not limited to obtaining blood samples, tail clips, ear punches and surgical excision of the thymii from neonates. It is also the responsibility of the contractor to perform all mouse care functions, including but not limited to providing all sterilized caging material, sterile food, and bedding. Lastly, the contractor shall support the NIAID Mouse Exchange Program. Functions will include but are limited to; importing, re-deriving, breeding, and applying all other procedures specified in the contract to mice included in the exchange program; advertise, expand and distribute exchange mice; and provide marketing, inventory control, quality control, and shipping of mice. Anticipated period of performance is September 1, 2012-August 31, 2013 with four one-year option periods. The solicitation will be available for download on or about May 31, 2012 from www.fedbizopps.gov. All questions should be submitted in writing to Afua Serwah-Asibey at serwahasibeya@niaid.nih.gov.
 
Web Link
FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/HHS/NIH/AMOB/NIHAO2012070/listing.html)
 
Place of Performance
Address: Bethesda, MD 20817, Bethesda, Maryland, 20817, United States
Zip Code: 20817
 
Record
SN02751743-W 20120519/120518001510-7c1e1ba7a64d5a86a24623b075e7da50 (fbodaily.com)
 
Source
FedBizOpps Link to This Notice
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