Notice of Intent to Increase the Ceiling of Contract N66001-13-C-4023

This is a notice of intent to increase the ceiling of Contract N66001-13-C-4023 to University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), awarded by SSC Pacific on behalf of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Defense Sciences Office (DARPA/DSO) on 24 May 2013 for a performance period of four (4) years. The effort under this contract is to provide for design and development for mammalian in vitro protein expression technology and innovative purification technologies combined with advances in microfluidics and microelectronics to produce biologics on site and to produce, purify and quantitatively determine the purity of the ready-for-delivery therapeutic protein in a few hours. This additional effort intends to further optimize the production of Granulocyte-colony stimulating factor (G-CSF) and to conduct a live-fire exercise to produce G-CSF on demand from the platform and immediately test the produced product in a rodent model with proper controls as well as irradiated mice for additional information on efficacy of the G-CSF produced. The NAICS code for this procurement is 541712. Due to the nature of Research and Development efforts, DARPA could not have reasonably estimated the results of the research from this program, which has seen breakthroughs that will benefit from continued work under this current contract. It is expected that the technology will transition for use by the warfighter. This action includes a ceiling increase of approximately $400,000 and an additional nine (9) months of performance. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals or quotes and will be posted for 15 days. A determination by the Government not to compete based upon response to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Interested parties may submit comments in writing to the Contract Specialist, Ms. Jeannette Perez, Code 22530, SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific who may be reached by telephone at (619) 553-7918 or via email to [email protected].