SCIENTIFIC, TECHNICAL RESEARCH AND PROGRAM MANAGEMENT SUPPORT SERVICES FOR USAMRIID

This is a pre-solicitation notice; a solicitation is being forecasted for 17 March 2025 with proposals being due 45 days after solicitation issuance. The government intends to compete as open market 100% 8(a) SB set-aside. The requirement is for non-personal, scientific, technical and project management Contractor support services in support of the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases’ (USAMRIID) required to accomplish their mission of protecting the Warfighter from biological threats, being prepared to investigate disease outbreaks or threats to public health and providing leading edge medical capabilities to deter and defend against current and emerging biological threat agents. Specifically, USAMRIID’s Bacteriology, Molecular Biology, Virology, Diagnostic Systems, Aerobiology, Animal Clinical Pathology, Telemetry, Medicine, Pathology, Regulated Research Administration and Risk Management Divisions have a need for scientific and technical support services necessary to execute funded projects to help meet the USAMRIID mission.

The contractor should have knowledge of the Army’s Biological Personnel Reliability Program (BPRP) and the Controlled Substance Personnel Reliability Program (CS-PRP), and knowledge and capabilities to provide Scientific, Technical Research and Program Management Support Services for USAMRIID, including in Biosafety Level (BSL)-2 through BSL-4 biocontainment laboratories, at Fort Detrick, Maryland. Some of the support services includes but are not limited to:

- Providing research support.

- Providing technical support for technology development and evaluation, and

  animal research protocols.

- Providing equipment maintenance and validation for Food and Drug

  Administration (FDA) Good Laboratory Practices (GLP) compliance.

- Performing clinical pathology sample evaluation and reporting of data.

- Organizing study rooms with necessary equipment.

- Maintaining a current inventory of telemetry implants.

- Configure telemetry hardware and software for data acquisition.

- Providing administrative and technical guidance with medical background.

- Working in conjunction with the various sciences divisions to project and identify

research needs, develop, and coordinate study protocols, and execute approved

research projects.

- Providing scientific and technical support necessary to execute all aspects of the

sciences divisions and USAMRIID’s current missions.

- Providing FDA GLP expertise.

- Maintaining all laboratory equipment and supplies.

- Developing new ultrastructural and molecular pathology techniques.

- Providing necropsy support in Biosafety Level (BSL)-2 through BSL-4

biocontainment laboratories.

- Being responsible for the overall performance of high complexity clinical and

general laboratory testing in BSL-2 through BSL-4 biocontainment laboratories.

- Providing expertise in bacterial pathogenesis, immunology, vaccines, and

therapeutics.

- Establishing research protocols and providing research governance of data

integrity and good research conduct.

- Providing expertise in high-level bioinformatics for integration and analysis of

approximately four Terabytes of data produced monthly.

- Providing technical support services to include laboratory procedures supporting

sample processing with management of standard operating procedures and

maintaining compliance with USAMRIID Safety regulations.

- Providing personnel with qualifications to support all mission requirements

including co-principal investigators, staff scientists, and technicians.

- Providing support to conduct viral pathogenesis research, viral biology research,

viral immunology research, animal modeling, cell biology, viral molecular biology,

and vector assessment.

- Providing personnel with qualification to meet regulatory and accredited activities

under applicable parts of Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Title 21 (21 CFR)

Good Laboratory Practices/Current Good Manufacturing Practices, 42 CFR

Clinical Laboratory Improvement Program/Clinical Laboratory Improvement

Amendments, International Organization for Standardization standards and

accreditation agency guidelines as applicable.

- Providing support to conduct aerobiology research in BSL-3 and BSL-4

biocontainment and engineering support to maintain, calibrate and certify aerosol

equipment.

- Providing personnel that will be expected to support and execute research,

repository, reagent production, verification/validation, and diagnostic and service

support in BSL-2 through BSL-4 biocontainment laboratories.

- Providing personnel capable of conducting immunodiagnostic research,

molecular diagnostic research, and advanced development of diagnostics to

support regulatory approval.

- Provide personnel capable of using their knowledge and experience of best

pharmaceutical industry practices related to development of medical

countermeasures, such as vaccines, therapeutics, and diagnostics, to develop an

integrated program. This includes establishment of the tools and models required

to conduct nonclinical studies of product candidates.

- Provide technical and program management suite supervision support for BSL-2

through BSL-4 biocontainment suites.