Operation and Maintenance of a Chimpanzee Care Center

For over 40 years, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has supported a facility at the Chimpanzee Care Center (CCC), MD Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas, in Bastrop, TX to care for NIH-owned chimpanzees. The program previously supported biomedical research on chimpanzees but ceased biomedical/invasive research in 2012. Since NIH's announcement on November 18, 2015 eliminating biomedical research on NIH-owned andsupported chimpanzees, the CCC has continued to provide care for the chimpanzees residing at their facility until those animals that could be transferred to the Federal Sanctuary were retired. Chimpanzees that were deemed unable to relocate to the Federal Sanctuary due to a high probability that "relocation would severely and irreversibly accelerate deterioration of the chimpanzee's physical and behavioral health" (Announcement_of_Agency_Decision- Relocation_of_At-Risk_Chimpanzees) remain at the CCC. The NIH requires a Contractor to operate and maintain the facility at the CCC and care for the NIH-owned chimpanzees.