SECONDARY POINT OF CONTACT CHANGED TO EILEEN WEBSTER-CISSEL. The Division of AIDS (DAIDS), the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH), is seeking an organization to continue an ongoing specimen storage and management program for HIV seropositive and negative specimens received from subjects enrolled in NIAID-sponsored multi-site clinical and epidemiological studies. The Contractor will perform the following tasks: (1) Perform an initial transition in the event the incumbent contractor is not successful. (2) Secure, receive, catalog, process, store, and disburse human biological specimens from subjects participating in NIAID-sponsored treatment, prevention, and/or cohort studies. (3) Provide adequate cold storage facilities and equipment for clinical specimens. (4) Provide shipping materials and documents, technical assistance and training to Site personnel and study teams on specimen handling and shipping. (5) Develop, perform, and maintain Quality Assurance systems for the NIAID Specimen Repository (NSR) facility, operations, stored specimens, shipping materials, and personnel and in accordance with all applicable Federal, State, and local regulatory requirements. (6) Provide (or utilize the current) computerized specimen inventory database management system (SIDMS) that supports NSR functions. (7) Provide a technical and administrative infrastructure to ensure efficient planning, initiation, implementation, and management of NSR activities. (8) Develop and implement a Final Transition Plan at the end of the contract. (9) Expand services to include additional Sites, when necessary, through exercise of Options. The NIAID Specimen Repository (NSR) is critical to the scientific integrity of on-going and future studies concerning HIV diagnosis, pathogenesis, disease progression, and assessment of treatments, vaccine efficacy and other preventive measures. The NSR has been in operation since 1988 and currently stores 5 million specimens. The incumbent contractor is SeraCare Bioservices, Inc., Gaithersburg, MD. It is anticipated that a cost-reimbursement, incrementally funded, completion form contract will be awarded for the base period of 7 years with potential to exercise up to three (3) options which will provide for the support for up to fifteen (15) additional domestic/international sites, per year. The Government considers the effort to be approximately 12.5 full time equivalents per year for the base period and .5 full time equivalents per year for the options. This RFP will be available on September 22, 2006 with proposals due November 27, 2006. The RFP will be available electronically on the NIAID Office of Acquisitions home page: http://www.niaid.nih.gov/contract and the Federal Business Opportunities web site: http://www.fedbizopps.gov/. Any responsible offeror may submit a proposal that will be considered by the Government. This announcement does not commit the Government to award a contract. No collect calls will be accepted. No facsimilie transmissions will be accepted. See Government-wide numbered note 26. Original Point of Contact: Josh LaVine, Contract Specialist (301) 496-2509 (via TTY relay 711), Fax (301) 402-0972, Email [email protected], Elizabeth Shanahan, Contracting Officer, Phone (301) 5494-6309, Email [email protected]. Point of Contact Joshua LaVine, Contract Specialist, Phone 301496-0612, Fax 301-480-4675, Email [email protected] - Eileen Webster-Cissel, Contracting Officer, Phone 301-496-0349, Fax 301-402-0972, Email [email protected]

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