The purpose of this contract is to provide support to NIAID OPRM for the pharmacy and pharmaceutical oversight responsibilities of national and international NIAID/DAIT supported clinical trials as well as other NIH funded clinical trials on an as-needed basis, to ensure study product integrity, participant safety, pharmacy and pharmaceutical regulatory compliance. This contract provides NIAID with centralized services for: 1) Study Product (i.e., IP management, procurement, receipt, storage, labeling, packaging/repackaging, blinding (i.e., over-encapsulation); placebo manufacturing, sterile product manufacturing and preparation, blister packaging, distribution to site, inventory management, accountability, disposal, and expiration dates and recall monitoring); 2) IP Regulatory Document Maintenance in the DRMC (Regulatory documents relating to shipment, receipt, disposition, return, destruction, manufacturing (placebo, food product immunotherapy, etc.), over-encapsulation (for blinding purposes), stability/sterility protocols and testing, and labeling and packaging; 3) Co-submissions of Drug Master Files (DMFs) and co-conducting product stability studies; and 4) Clinical samples repository, product sterility/stability and release testing, clinical laboratory testing such as Immunoassays, Molecular Diagnostics, DNA Sequencing, Flow Cytometry, etc.
