Education & Training Services / Oxford-Cambridge University Doctoral Partnership Program

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), intends to negotiate with the University of Oxford, University Offices, Wellington Square, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX1 2JD, United Kingdom on an other that full and open competition basis for the payment of tuition and fees for NIH Fellows new incoming and continuing to participate in a doctorate program as a part of the NIH Oxford-Cambridge Scholars Training Program of the NIH-Wide Global Doctoral Partnership (NGDP). The NIH Fellows roster consist of four (4) new incoming and nineteen (19) continuing. This acquisition will be processed under FAR Part 12 - Acquisition for Commercial Items and will be made pursuant to the authority in FAR Part 13.501(a)(1). Only one award will be made as a result of this notice. This will be awarded as a firm-fixed price type of contract. The period of performance is one (1) year from date of award and acceptance. The National Institutes of Health (NIH), a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is one of the premier Federal agencies responsible for conducting and supporting global health research initiatives and helping to lead the way toward medical discoveries and advancements that save lives and promote improved healthier standards of living from a global perspective. In order to obtain basic and applied research and highly skilled medical and scientific researchers, the NIH has developed the NIH-wide NGDP consisting of a set of affiliated doctoral programs for highly accomplished biomedical research students devoted to careers in basic, translational, or clinical biomedical research by allowing outstanding American and European Union college graduates to engage in accelerated PhD research through collaborative projects between an NIH intramural laboratory and laboratories at the University of Oxford. In collaboration with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Division of Intramural Research, the foundation programs of the NGDP are the NIH Oxford-Cambridge Scholars Program, the NIH MD/Ph.D. Partnership Training Program, and the NIH Wellcome Trust Program. The NIH will provide, through its offices and investigators, graduate-level training and research for the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th year for new incoming and continuing students in the 2019-2020 academic year under coordinated mentors at the NIH and University of Oxford. To disrupt a student in their field of study would mean starting the educational processes from the beginning, which would be costly to the Government. The Government has invested in the new and continuing students to complete their program in four (4) years, which would lead to more time and funding for completion if they were to start the process over. The statutory authority for this sole source requirement is 41 U.S.C. 253 (c) (1) as implemented by FAR 6.302-1 only one source available, no substitutions possible. THIS IS NOT A SOLICITATION FOR COMPETITIVE QUOTATIONS. All responsible sources who can provide the service of Oxford-Cambridge Scholars Training Program of the NIH-Wide Global Doctoral Partnership may submit a capability statement that could be considered by email (subject line to reference NIAID-NOI-19-1976493) to Tonia Alexander at contact@example.gov, by 3:00 pm eastern standard time Monday, September 9, 2019. All information furnished must be in writing and must contain sufficient detail to allow NIAID to determine if it can meet the above unique specifications described herein. All responses received by the closing date of this solicitation will be considered by the Government. A determination not to compete this requirement, based upon responses to this notice, is solely within the discretion of the Government.