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Background
The National Institutes of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) established the Preclinical Screening Platform for Pain (PSPP) in response to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Helping to End Addiction Long-term (HEAL) initiative. The HEAL initiative is a trans-NIH effort to fast-track basic, translational, and clinical research in the field of addiction and pain to address the national opioid crisis. The goal of the PSPP is to foster the development of opioid alternatives to treat all types of pain conditions.
As part of this HEAL Initiative, the PSPP will continue to provide pain researchers from the academic and industry community with a centralized resource for testing compounds, biologics, natural products, and devices for their potential as opioid alternatives.

Work Details
This is an Indefinite Quantity contract as contemplated by 16.504. The Contractor shall be reimbursed by in an amount not less than a total of $10,0000.00 (minimum) nor more than a total of $80,000,000.00 (maximum) for successful performance of this contract. The IDIQ Contract shall allow for the issuance of level-of-effort (LOE) task orders where the resultant contractor is required to incur a specified number of labor hours in categories of labor applicable to key personnel, to be performed in a specific period of time.
Payment for a LOE task order shall be based upon effort, not results, as compounds may not be found viable during the pre-clinical screening process.

Period of Performance
09/01/2024 to 08/31/2029