SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- Off-campus animal holding/husbandry quarantine and technical serices
- Notice Date
- 8/8/2002
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, Office of Administration, 6011 Executive Blvd, Rm 538, Rockville, MD, 20892-7663
- ZIP Code
- 20892-7663
- Solicitation Number
- 263-02-P-(AB)-0044
- Response Due
- 9/10/2002
- Point of Contact
- Ann Bryant, Contract Specialist, Phone 301-402-3080, Fax 301-402-3407, - Edward Wilgus, Contracting Officer, Phone 301-402-3070, Fax 301-480-1145,
- E-Mail Address
-
bryanta@od.nih.gov, wilguse@od.nih.gov
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- Off-Campus Animal Holding/Husbandry Quarantine & Technical Services. The services shall be for a) existing and future research animals/colonies, each with a widely varying colony health status (e.g. mice (congenic, transgenic, etc), rats, rabbits, guinea pigs & hamsters, etc); b) technical services (e.g. administration of special diets, antibody production (Monoclonal, Polclonal, etc), ascites production rederivation services, breeding and weaning services, administration of protocol related drugs and experimental substances, tail snipping, anesthesia support, specialized ocular exams, tissue harvesting, immunoassay, bleedings, inoculations, routine surgeries, euthanasia services, etc); c) quarantine facilities; and d) delivery services. Types/ Quantities of animals include 1) Rabbits (Conventional Housing) - 3650 cage days/yr; 2) Rats (Conventional Housing) - 7300 cage days /yr.; 3) Rats - (Microisolator Housing) - 18,250 cage days/yr.; 4) Mice (Conventional Housing) - 9125 cage days/yr; 5) Mice - (Microisolator Housing) - 75,000 cage days/yr.; 6) Hamsters (Conventional Housing) - 100 cage days/yr; 7) Hamsters (Microisolator Housing) - 100 cage days/yr.; 8 ) Guinea Pigs (Conventional Housing) - 3650 cage days/yr. Technical Services estimated at 5200 hrs/yr; and Deliveries/Pick-up estimated at 300 ea/yr. The performance period is for one year basic period begining o/a 1/1/03, with four one-year options. Contractor shall be located within thirty (30) minutes for the NIH Campus,Bethesda, MD. This time factor is required to reach the off-campus contract site from the NIH Bethesda campus. A maximum transit time of 30 minutes is required to meet the majority of our institute's research/programmatic requirements. This requirement is necessitated by the Government's need to move fragile embryos, tissues and other biological samples between the contract site and the NIH campus on a routine basis. The majority of these samples are very susceptible to small environmental and physical changes, as some specimens begin degrading at time of collection. In both of the above situations, the expeditious transport of the specimen between the contract site and laboratory is mandatory to insure positive and consistent experimental results. Past experience has demonstrated that transport times in excess of thirty (30) minutes have not provided our research programs with the consistent results required for the Government's research programs. In addition, in order to complete experiments, some investigators are required to make several trips between their laboratory and the contract site on the same day. Transport times greator than 30 minutes will not allow these individuals to complete their required experimental manipulations within the required time period. See numbered notes: 1. Closing date 10AM local prevailing time on September 10, 2002.
- Place of Performance
- Address: Bethesda, MD.
- Zip Code: 20892
- Zip Code: 20892
- Record
- SN00136023-W 20020810/020808213304 (fbodaily.com)
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