Biorepository Government Bids & RFPs

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The government will award a contract to the responsible offeror whose offer represents the best value to the government, price and other factors considered. The government will award a contract resulting from this solicitation to the responsible offeror whose offer conforming to the solicitation represents the best value to the government, price and other factors considered.

Offerors must be actively registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) at www. ***. *. * offerors must be actively registered in the system foraward management sam at www. ***. *. *

The anticipated period of performance is from May 1, 2026, through April 30, 2027, and will include four one-year option periods, as stated in the notice.

The government requires a nationally recognized center for high quality ALS samples for researchers, with extensive experience in facilitating and providing tissue samples and data to facilitate different ALS research projects in academic and industry laboratories worldwide. The contractor must have a repository compromised of: frozen and fixed CNS tissues, liver, and several muscles from ALS/MND and non-neurologic control autopsies, and a limited number of other tissues. Standard operating procedures for tissue dissection, processing, QC analysis, clinical data elements, and neuropathological characterization are specifically optimized to meet the needs of ALS researchers. A dissection method that produces the maximum number of individual, optimally sized tissue samples from each ALS relevant region, while preserving the architecture of the tissue, and a large collection of ALS samples from the Guam cluster are also required.

The government requires a nationally recognized center for high quality ALS samples for researchers. The contractor must have a repository compromised of: frozen and fixed CNS tissues, liver, and several muscles from ALS/MND and non-neurologic control autopsies. A limited number of other tissues like sural sciatic nerve, GI tract, skin, etc. , are also available. The notice also mentions a large collection of ALS samples from the Guam cluster.

The application must be submitted through the Health Research Office SharePoint site no later than 5:00 p. m. ET on April 23, 2026. The department will reject any late applications.

Applications are welcomed from academic clinical medical centers located in this Commonwealth which conduct neurodegenerative disease research. For the purposes of this grant, the definition of an academic medical center that will be used comes from the Joint Commission International: a tertiary care hospital that is organizationally and administratively integrated with a medical school.

The department will reject any late applications. Late applications will not be accepted regardless of the reason.

All questions regarding this RFA must be directed by email to ***@***. *. *, no later than 12:00 p. m. ET on April 2, 2026.