SOURCES SOUGHT
A -- NIDDK Biosample Repository
- Notice Date
- 8/24/2007
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541710
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, Nat'l Institute of Diabetes, Digestive, & Kidney Diseases, 2 Democracy Plaza, Suite 700W 6707 Democracy Blvd., MSC 5455, Bethesda, MD, 20892-5455, UNITED STATES
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- NIH-NIDDK-07-06
- Response Due
- 11/20/2007
- Archive Date
- 11/20/2007
- Description
- The National Institutes of Health, National Institutes of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases is conducting a market survey to help determine the availability and technical capability of qualified small businesses, veteran-owned small businesses, service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses and/or HUBZone small businesses capable of serving the needs mentioned below. The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is seeking an organization or an institution to serve as the NIDDK Biosample Repository. The repository stores and maintains biosamples under high quality conditions, and distributes them in an equitable and ethical manner. This facilitates sharing of NIDDK-supported resources, thus encouraging work by junior investigators, investigators with novel approaches, and others not included in current collaborations, without excluding those who are established in their fields. It helps to ensure that research participants make a maximal contribution, and decreases duplicative sampling efforts. The objective of this acquisition will be to continue the NIDDK Biosample Repository, in order to accomplish the following in a highly efficient, rapid, and cost-effective manner: ? Receive and store biosamples collected in many different studies, ? Carry out specified sample processing and analyses, and ? Widely distribute biosamples to qualified investigators The specimen archiving tasks outlined in this statement of work are highly technical, and require extensive experience, expertise, and long-term commitment. The samples were collected over several years from carefully chosen subjects and are present in a finite quantity. Each sample is unique and cannot be replaced if lost, damaged, or contaminated. Therefore, it is essential that the samples be stored under optimal conditions, which vary from sample type to sample type. The Contractor?s project director must have extensive experience in successful management of an archival storage facility that stores various types of biosamples, including blood, stool, urine, DNA, and tissue, and distributes aliquots to many different investigators. The Contractor?s staff must be highly trained to carry out technical tasks accurately and reproducibly. As all the work is with samples from human subjects, all staff must be familiar with human subjects protections and be sensitive to the bioethical and safety issues involved in handling human biosamples. Finally, the Contractor must have a demonstrable long-term interest in providing these services, to ensure that there is continuity throughout the period of the contract, and to prevent repeated shipment of samples from storage site to storage site, as shipment can sometimes damage these unique materials. NUMBER OF STUDIES This project will potentially serve fifteen or more large multi-site NIDDK funded studies. The range for existing samples is 200,000 to 400,000 individual vials. In addition, to 20,000 to 60,000 new samples, in multiple aliquots (5 ? 20 vials), will be received annually. Currently all of the required work is in the final year of a NIDDK 5-year funded contract with the Fisher Bioservices. All qualified small businesses, veteran-owned small businesses, service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses and/or HUBZone small businesses interested in submitting a corporate capability statement should demonstrate experience and knowledge for performing the following tasks: 1) Establish biospecimen preparation, shipping, receipt, and tracking systems for numerous individual multi-center clinical studies; 2) Maintain the confidentiality of subjects by removing all traditional personal identifiers from samples; 3) Establish one or more subcontracts for shipping of biosamples between multiple sites and the repository and for timely and cost-effective laboratory processing and/or testing of biosamples; 4) Store biosamples under optimal conditions to minimize loss, damage or contamination; 5) Distribute biosamples to qualified investigators granted access by the Project Officer, including packaging, handling, and coordinating sample shipments to domestic and international sites; 6) Withdraw and destroy samples from the repository as directed in writing by the Project Officer; 7) Establish and maintain Quality Assurance (QA) and Quality Control (QC) programs; 8) Provide security and back-up systems and a plan for disaster recovery; 9) Maintain high quality, secure information systems to allow detailed tracking and reporting of sample receipt, processing, storage and distribution, rapid retrieval of samples, storage of QA/QC information associated with the sample, seamless interaction with the Database Repository, and listing of investigators using the repository; and 10) Work in a cooperative fashion with the Project Officer, the External Advisory Committee, and the Steering Committee. Special Instructions: If you or your firm/business has an interest and possess the required expertise we invite you to submit a corporate capability statement to assist the Government in determining in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 19.502-2(b) whether or not this procurement will be set-aside for any of the programs described above. The intended procurement will be classified under North American Industrial Classification (NAICS) code 541710 with a size standard of 500 employees. All respondents are requested to identify their firm's size and type of business. Interested firms responding to this sources sought should adhere to the following: (a) Provide a capability statement demonstrating relevant experience, skills and ability to fulfill the Government's requirements for the above. The capability statement should contain sufficient detail for the Government to make an informed decision regarding your capabilities. The capability statement should not exceed 25 pages and five (5) copies should be submitted. (b) The capability statement should include references, key personnel, and any teaming arrangements needed to fulfill the requirements. (c) All capability statements must be submitted in writing to the address identified in this synopsis no later than July 10, 2007 no later than 3:00pm eastern standard time. Responses will not be accepted via email or fax. This notice is for information and planning purposes only and is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government, nor will the Government pay for information solicited.
- Place of Performance
- Address: Bethesda, MD
- Zip Code: 20817
- Country: UNITED STATES
- Zip Code: 20817
- Record
- SN01384031-W 20070826/070824220647 (fbodaily.com)
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