The United States Army Medical Research Acquistion Activity (USAMRAA), Fort Detrick, MD intends to issue a sole source award to Mahidol Oxford Research Unit (MORU), Rajvithi Road, Bangkok, Thailand 10400 for non-personal services to perform assay development, histopathology, immunology and training for scrub typhus in Thailand. MORU has an active certified BSL-3 laboratory configured to process and assay scrub typhus infected tissues. No other sources in Thailand are capable of adequately performing these needed services. This notice of intent is for information purposes only. All sources eligible to provide this service must respond in writing. Responses must be supported with clear and convincing evidence to clearly articulate the ability to provide services outlined above. A request for documentation will not be considered as an affirmative response. If no responses are received, within 15 days after publication of this notice, to the effect that comparable services are available, and that it is more advantageous to the Government than obtaining these services through a sole-source contract, then a sole source acquisition award will be made. Response to this notice is to be sent to
[email protected].