SOURCES SOUGHT
R -- Animal Husbandry Support for the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences located in Research Triangle Park, NC
- Notice Date
- 2/5/2003
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Acquisitons Management Branch, PO Box 12874, Research Triangle Park, NC, 27709
- ZIP Code
- 27709
- Solicitation Number
- 273-03-P-0006
- Archive Date
- 3/19/2003
- Point of Contact
- James Patterson, Contract Specialist, Phone (919) 541-7821, Fax (919) 541-5117,
- E-Mail Address
-
patters1@niehs.nih.gov
- Description
- The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) has a requirement for animal husbandry support services to be performed at our facility located in the Research Triangle Park, NC. The performance of service for this requirement will be conducted in Government owned or leased facilities within the designated contract service area. The NIEHS shall provide animal holding and procedures space, cage wash facilities, office and laboratory space, restroom, shower and locker areas, storage and other support space required to conduct the contract. The Animal Husbandry Support Service contractor shall be capable of providing care and maintenance for laboratory animals, seven (7) days per week including weekends and holidays for a 55,000 square foot laboratory anima facility with a daily inventory of 25,000 animals. This includes feeding and watering animals; observing health and condition of animals; sanitizing and cleaning of cages and rooms; animal health surveillance; identifying animals by ear punch, tattoo or microchip implantation as directed, administering routine treatments to animals when prescribed by Veterinary Staff, and maintaining animal room equipment and supplies. The contractor shall also be capable of the following: ordering, receiving, inspecting and inventorying deliveries of feed, bedding, equipment and supplies; receiving, inspecting, and within a 25-mile radius of NIEHS delivering shipments of incoming and in-house animals; operating and monitoring performance of autoclaves, cage washers, rack washers, bottle washers and bottle fillers, clothes washers and dryers, vacuum cleaners and floor scrubbers; providing housekeeping to entire animal facility and support areas; establishing pedigreed rodent breeding colonies; performing complicated surgical techniques, and diagnostic evaluation of laboratory animals in support of research programs and objectives. The contractor will be responsible for the breeding, perpetuation, and possible expansion of the various strains of research colony rodents; therefore, the contractor must be capable of evaluating the reproductive efficiency of all in-house rodent breeding colonies including transgenic colonies; identifying reproductive problems and make recommendations for improvement; preparing working protocols for each breeding colony. Also, the contract must be capable of assisting with the preparation of standard operating procedures regarding animal husbandry, animal care, and rodent breeding; performing the data management of animal inventory, cost accounting, and the animal study proposals using the GCS animal facility management software; performing necropsies, including sentinel animals, recording all lesions observed on Animal Health Report; and performing sample collection (urine, feces, tissues, whole blood and/or blood products, parasites, microbiological cultures) fixation and/or freezing of samples. Formal written standard operating procedures (SOP's) will be provided by the Government for all duties. The contractor must demonstrate their capability to perform duties to conform to the most recent version of the NCR Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals, as well as the PHS Policy for Humane Care and Use of Laboratory Animals, the Animal Welfare Act PL 89-544 and amendments, NIH Manual Policy 3040-2, and the Association for the Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care, International (AAALAC International) standards. The purpose of this synopsis is to advertise this requirement to seek all eligible firms 8(a) firms under North American Industrial Classification System (SIC) 541710 capable of providing Animal Husbandry Support Services onsite at the NIEHS. The anticipated performance period for this requirement is five years [Initial Award Year and Four Option Years]. All eligible 8(a) are invited to submit capability statements that substantiate their experience an qualifications in performing animal support type services within thirty (30) days from the date of the synopsis. Capability statements may be submitted to attention of James E. Patterson at the following address: National Institute of Environmental Sciences, P.O. Box 12874, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709. Acknowledgment of receipt of responses will not be made nor will responded be notified of the evaluation of the information received. James E. Patterson Contract Specialist Acquisitions Management Branch, OM cc: Solicitation File
- Record
- SN00253474-W 20030207/030205213337 (fbodaily.com)
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