SOLICITATION NOTICE
A -- Development and Maintenance of an Aged Non-Human Primate Tissue Bank
- Notice Date
- 9/25/2012
- 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 on Mental Health, Contracts Management Branch, 6001 Executive Blvd, Rm 8154, MSC 9661, Bethesda, Maryland, 20892-9661
- ZIP Code
- 20892-9661
- Solicitation Number
- HHS-NIH-NIDA(AG)-RFP-12-170
- Archive Date
- 10/25/2012
- Point of Contact
- Rosanne S Wilson, Phone: 301-443-4433, Yvette Brown, Phone: 301 443-2696
- E-Mail Address
-
wilsonr@mail.nih.gov, Yvette.Brown@nih.gov
(wilsonr@mail.nih.gov, Yvette.Brown@nih.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- This is a Pre-Solicitation Notice. This is NOT a solicitation for proposals, proposal abstracts, or quotations. The purpose of this notice is to provide the National Institute on Aging (NIA), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) plans to procure services for Development and Maintenance of an Aged Non-Human Primate Tissue Bank. The National Institute on Aging (NIA), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) intends to re-compete requirements currently being performed under NIA Contract No. HHSN260200800026C. This procurement is being competed under full and open competitive procedures using NAICS Code 541990. It is anticipated that a single cost plus fixed fee type contract will be awarded for a 1-year period of performance beginning on or about August 1, 2013, with 4 option years. It is expected that a solicitation will be issued on or about 10/30/2012 and proposal due date is expected 12/14/2012. The objective of the Aged Non-human Primate Tissue Bank contract is to acquire, archive and distribute excess tissue from NHP that are being euthanized for research purposes at institutions around the country. The purpose of the Aged Non-human Primate Tissue Bank is to provide a mechanism to archive and distribute excess tissue from non-human primates (NHP) that are being euthanized for research purposes. This will provide a new research resource to many investigators and contribute to a reduction in the number of NHP needed by the research community since multiple investigators will be able to take advantage of each animal. The tissue will allow investigators to test hypotheses in a model closely related to humans by providing access to NHP tissue without the expense of obtaining and housing the animals. This is an extremely important aspect of this project, as the supply of NHP in general, and rhesus macaques in particular, is very limited. The tissues will be collected under strictly controlled protocols to ensure the integrity of the tissue. Tissue will be flash-frozen without fixation or fixed and embedded, to fit the needs of a wide-range of molecular and histochemical techniques. The Contractor shall receive NHP tissue from a variety of institutions around the country, solicit tissue from sources identified by the Contracting Officer's Representative (COR), solicit tissue from sources identified by their own interactions with the research community upon approval of the source by the COR, coordinate the transfer of the tissue to the Contractor's facility, process and aliquot the tissue for preservation as needed, preserve the tissue and embed as needed, package, label and store the tissue, prepare a detailed inventory of the tissue, and ship tissue to investigators at the direction of the Project Officer. REPORTS/DELIVERABLES: (1) Inventory up-date report - This report shall be provided to NIA after each shipment or addition of tissue, or weekly at most. (2) Semi-Annual Progress report - This report shall be provided within thirty (30) calendar days of the end of the period covered by the report. The initial report shall be submitted for the first full six months of the contract performance including any fractional part of the initial month. Thereafter, the reporting period shall consist of six full calendar months. A semi-annual report will not be required for the period when the final report is due. Progress reports shall detail the species, gender, and ages of animals from which tissue was received for banking, the number of samples of each tissue type received from each animal, the number of orders filled listed by institution, and the number of each tissue type delivered. (3) Final report - A final report shall be submitted on or before the expiration date of contract. The final report shall include a summation of the work performed under the entire contract period of performance, including number of tissue collected and number of tissues shipped to investigators. THERE IS NO SOLICITATION AT THIS TIME. All updates/amendments pertaining to this requirement will only be posted and made available for viewing and downloading on the Government Electronic Posting System (Fedbizopps) site at http://www.fedbizopps.gov. It is the Offerors responsibility to review this site frequently for updates to any and all documents. All responsible sources may submit a proposal which will be considered by the agency. This notice does not commit the Government to award a contract. No collect calls will be accepted. No facsimile transmissions will be accepted. This proposed acquisition was previously publicized under sources sought notices HHS-NIH-NIDA(AG)-RDSS-12-170 and HHS-NIH-NIDA(AG)-SBSS-12-170.
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