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Q -- DONOR APHERESIS SERVICES SOL CC-96-20 DUE 100496 POC V. Antoinette Coleman, Contract Specialist, Stephanie C. Trice, Contracting Officer (301) 496-3704. The Department of Transfusion Medicine of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is seeking a contractor to maintain and administer a donor recruitment and apheresis program. The contractor will be required to: 1) recruit sufficient volunteer donors to support the red cell, white cell, and platelet transfusion needs of the Clinical Center patients; 2) manage the recruitment aspects and maintain the files of a large registry of unrelated potential bone marrow donors; 3) administer and expand donor recruitment programs for voluntary whole blood donors, voluntary plateletpheresis and leukapheresis donors, research cytapheresis and plasma donors, and unrelated volunteer bone marrow donors; 4) establish and maintain a list of a minumum of 40,000 HLA-typed bone marrow donors sufficient to participate in the National Marrow Donor Registry; and 5) perform plateletpheresis, plasmapheresis and leukapheresis procedures sufficient to meet the transfusion needs of NIH Clinical Center patients in conformance with applicable regulations, including the FDA and AABB. A five year cost-reimbursement type contract is anticipated. The SIC is 8071. The estimated due date is on or about November 4, 1996. (0257)

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