SOURCES SOUGHT
88 -- Live Animals and Specialized Animal Services
- Notice Date
- 10/10/2007
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 112990
— All Other Animal Production
- Contracting Office
- National Institutes of Health National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Research Triangle Park NC 27709
- ZIP Code
- 27709
- Solicitation Number
- NIHES2008016
- Response Due
- 10/22/2007
- Archive Date
- 11/21/2007
- Point of Contact
- GENTRY, MELISSA M +1 919 316 4625, gentry1@niehs.nih.gov
- E-Mail Address
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Email your questions to GENTRY, MELISSA M
(gentry1@niehs.nih.gov)
- Description
- Title:"Provisions for Barrier Reared and Maintained Rabbits, Rats, Mice, Hamsters, Gerbils, Guinea Pigs, and Specialized Animal Services". The National Institute of Health (NIH), National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) is conducting a market survey to determine the availability and potential technical capability of small businesses to supply barrier reared and maintained rabbits, rats, mice, hamsters, gerbils, guinea pigs, and specialized animal services to the Comparative Medicine Branch (CMB), Animal Resources Section (ARS) at the NIEHS. The intended procurement will be classified under North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code 112990, All Other Animal Production. The purpose of the procurement is to: provide an efficient and cost effective centralized purchasing mechanism that can maintain uninterrupted support of the research animal needs of NIEHS intramural investigators; provide monitoring and oversight of the genetic quality and health status of research animals introduced into the NIEHS animal facilities; to provide monitoring and oversight of the genetic quality and health status of NIEHS-owned research animals housed and maintained offsite at the commercial contractor?s facilities; to maintain compliance with various federal, state, local laws and NIH & NIEHS regulations affecting the use of laboratory animals; and to ensure that NIEHS Principal Investigators and the Comparative Medicine Branch have authorized the placement of individual animal procurement requests. Successful offerors shall furnish the following: A. Commerical Animal Purchases: various stains and stocks of barrier-reared and maintained rats, mice, hamsters, gerbils, guinea pigs and/or rabbits, which meet the specific genotype, health status, sex, age, weight, and/or pregnancy requirements and surgical manipulations, as included in the vendors? commercial catalogues, websites, or notifications of availability; and various blood, tissues, organs and other biological specimens; B. Specialized Animal Services: various specialized animal services, which may include, but not limited to: rederivation, cryopreservation, cryopreservation storage, quarantine, customized breeding, colony development, production and maintenance, animal health surveillance and diagnostic testing; genetic monitoring, diagnostic, and testing services, veterinary services, customized research protocols, rodent export and import services, and/or antibody production services, as included in the vendor?s commercial catalogues, websites, or notifications of availability. The Contractor shall be regularly engaged in the breeding, raising, and shipping of the animals described. The animals, tissues, organs, and blood or serum supplied under this contract shall be maintained and collected in the Contractor?s facilities. The Contractor shall operate any and all proposed facilities for services related to rederivation of animal models for the elimination of the vertical and horizontal transfer of pathogens, parasites and other undesired organisms, cryopreservation for mouse and/or rat embryos or germplasm, and colony production and maintenance. However, with the Government?s approval, some or all of the long-term storage of cryopreserved embryos (repository functions) may be subcontracted. All contractors shall have a minimum of 5 years experience providing laboratory animals to biomedical research facilities. Contractors shall have a PHS Assurance from the NIH Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare (OLAW), shall be accredited by the Association for Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care International (AAALAC), and shall be registered with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) if utilizing regulated species. In addition, the Contractor shall comply with all applicable laws, regulations and standards governing animal welfare while performing under this contract. All facilities, practices and procedures of husbandry, care and maintenance of animals used in the performance of this contract shall be in accordance with the latest issue in effect of the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals (copy available upon request from the Contracting Officer). The Contractor shall have an active pest control program to prevent the introduction of pathogenic agents from wild rodents to research animals housed in the production facilities. The Contractor shall have health surveillance and disease control programs. The Contractor shall be responsible for the cost of the testing. Oversight of these programs shall be developed, administered, and directed by a veterinarian who is board certified or eligible for certification by the American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine. The veterinarian may be a full time member of the Contractor?s staff or an adjunct consultant. The Government anticipates that there will be multiple Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contracts awarded for this requirement. A period of performance to include a base period of one year, with four, one year option periods is anticipated. Interested firms must provide qualification packages that include a comprehensive listing of the animal species/strains and specialized animal services available to the Government. Inclusion of a copy of the firm?s current commercial catalogue should meet this requirement. Additionally, qualification packages must also include business size, annual receipts (average gross revenue) for the last three (3) fiscal years, and whether or not the firm has been approved as a small business by the SBA under NAICS code 112990. Firms should provide three (3) copies of their capability statement to the address noted below with (10) days from the date of this notice. The Government will evaluate all submissions to this announcement. This is a Sources Sought announcement only. This is not a request for proposals and in no way commits the Government to award a contract. The Government will not execute any award(s) based solely on responses to this sources sought announcement and will not pay for any costs incurred in response to this announcement. Inquiries and/or qualification packages should be directed to the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Office of Acquisitions, OM, Bldg. 4401, Room 135, 79 T.W. Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709. Attention: Melissa Gentry, Contracting Officer; Telephone: 919-316-4625; fax: 301-451-5594; email: gentry1@niehs.nih.gov.
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