SOLICITATION NOTICE
A -- NIDDK Biosample Repository
- Notice Date
- 8/24/2007
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- 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
- 20892-5455
- Solicitation Number
- NIH-NIDDK-07-06
- Response Due
- 11/20/2007
- Archive Date
- 11/20/2007
- Point of Contact
- Dana Harris, Contract Specialist, Phone 301-594-9987, Fax 301-480-4226, - Edward Kostolansky, Contract Specialist, Phone 301-594-4758, Fax 301-480-4226,
- E-Mail Address
-
harrisd@extra.niddk.nih.gov, ekostola@niddk.nih.gov
- Description
- The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is soliciting proposals on a full and open competitive basis from qualified businesses, organizations, colleges, universities and institutions to award a contract to serve as the NIDDK Biosample Repository. The Biosample Repository stores and maintains biosamples under high quality conditions, and distributes them in an equitable and ethical manner. This facilitates the 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. The Biosample Repository helps to ensure that research participants make a maximal contribution, and decreases duplicative sampling efforts. The objective of this acquisition is to continue the NIDDK Biosample Repository in order to accomplish the following activities 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. ? 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 that 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 1,400,000 to 1,900,000 individual specimens in vials or slides. In addition, 20,000 to 60,000 new samples, in multiple aliquots (5 ? 20 vials), will be received annually. Since 2003, Fisher BioServices (formerly McKesson BioServices) has served as the contractor for the NIDDK Biosample Repository. Request for Proposal No. NIH-NIDDK-07-06 will be issued at the www.fedbizopps.gov website on or about September 8, 2007 with a receipt date for proposals on or about November 20, 2007. See Numbered Note 26. NOTE: THIS NOTICE WAS NOT POSTED TO FEDBIZOPPS ON THE DATE INDICATED IN THE NOTICE ITSELF (24-AUG-2007); HOWEVER, IT DID APPEAR IN THE FEDBIZOPPS FTP FEED ON THIS DATE. PLEASE CONTACT fbo.support@gsa.gov REGARDING THIS ISSUE.
- Web Link
-
Link to FedBizOpps document.
(http://www.fbo.gov/spg/HHS/NIH/NIDDKD/NIH-NIDDK-07-06/listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Address: Bethesda, MD
- Zip Code: 20817
- Country: UNITED STATES
- Zip Code: 20817
- Record
- SN01385135-F 20070826/070824230237 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
-
FedBizOpps Link to This Notice
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