COVID-19: NIAID SPECIMEN REPOSITORY

本合同提供与NIAID标本库(NSR)运营相关的迫切需要的全面服务，它将继续帮助(1)保护、接收、编目、处理、等量、存储和支付来自参与NIAID赞助的队列研究和临床网络的受试者的人体生物标本(2)提供足够的冷藏设施，(3)保持临床标本优化存储的新程序，并能够使用最先进的技术来确保标本从接收到存储在冰柜中以及从冰柜到出货装运集装箱的完整性，(4)提供(或利用最新的)计算机标本库存数据库管理系统(SIDMS)来支持存储库的功能，以及(5)根据所有适用的联邦、州和地方法规要求，为NSR设施、操作、储存的生物样品、运输材料和人员制定、执行和维护质量保证(QA)/质量控制(QC)计划。该项目将为保存由美国国际开发署赞助的SARS-CoV-2(新冠肺炎)临床研究的样本提供支持。

This contract provides critically needed comprehensive services related to operation of the NIAID Specimen Repository (NSR), and it will continue to help (1) secure, receive, catalog, process, aliquot, store, and disburse human biological specimens from subjects participating in NIAID-sponsored cohort studies and clinical networks (2) provide adequate cold storage facilities, (3) remain current on novel procedures for optimized storage of clinical specimens and be able to use state of the art technology to ensure specimen integrity from receipt to storage in the freezers and from freezers to shipment containers for outgoing shipments, (4) provide (or utilize the current) computerized Specimen Inventory Database Management System (SIDMS) that supports the repository's functions, and (5) develop, perform, and maintain Quality Assurance (QA)/Quality Control (QC) Program for the NSR facility, operations, stored biospecimens, shipping materials, and personnel in accordance with all applicable Federal, State, and local regulatory requirements. This project will provide support for the storage of samples from NIAID-sponsored SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) clinical studies.