SOLICITATION NOTICE
Q -- FULL and OPEN ANNOUNCEMENT
- Notice Date
- 10/26/2007
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 621511
— Medical Laboratories
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Procurement and Grants Office (Atlanta), 2920 Brandywine Road, Room 3000, Atlanta, GA, 30341-4146, UNITED STATES
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- 2008-N-09691
- Response Due
- 12/12/2007
- Archive Date
- 12/27/2007
- Point of Contact
- Dyad Searcy, Contract Specialist, Phone 404-639-8240, Fax 404-639-8095, - Betty Vannoy, Contract Specialist, Phone 4046398293, Fax 4046398095
- E-Mail Address
-
fzj1@cdc.gov, bbv9@cdc.gov
- Description
- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announces its intention to negotiate a cost reimbursement type contract to conduct testing for National HIV Incidence Surveillance and other CDC HIV surveillance activities using the BED assay and remnant samples (serum, plasma, dried fluid spots) from newly diagnosed individuals from sites funded for HIV incidence surveillance and report the results to these sites. The Serologic Testing Algorithm for Recent HIV Seroconversion (STARHS) is the currently accepted method used for the estimation of HIV incidence. With STARHS, confirmed HIV-positive samples are analyzed using the Calypte HIV-1 BED Incidence EIA (BED assay). The BED assay is a quantitative assay that indirectly measures the proportion of HIV-1 specific IgG antibodies with respect to total IgG. Samples from recently infected patients have a lower proportion of HIV-1 specific IgG antibodies than samples from patients with long term infection and therefore can be classified as recently infected using this assay. Quantitative values from this assay are evaluated against control values and cut-off points to estimate the likelihood that the sample being tested is from a newly infected individual or someone with a long term infection. Results from the BED assay are used with clinical, demographic, and testing history information to estimate the incidence of a population.
- Place of Performance
- Address: Contractor's Facility
- Zip Code: 30329
- Country: UNITED STATES
- Zip Code: 30329
- Record
- SN01441615-W 20071028/071026223250 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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