SOLICITATION NOTICE
X -- Lease with the option to purchase an FEI Tecnai G2 Polara System
- Notice Date
- 4/14/2003
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, Research Contracts Br., 6120 Executive Blvd. EPS Suite 600, Rockville, MD, 20852
- ZIP Code
- 20852
- Solicitation Number
- RFQ-NCI-30035-NG
- Archive Date
- 5/13/2003
- Point of Contact
- Malinda Holdcraft, Purchasing Agent, Phone (301) 402-4509, Fax (301) 402-4513, - Caren Rasmussen, Lead Contract Specialist, Phone (301) 402-4509, Fax (301) 402-4513,
- E-Mail Address
-
holdcram@exchange.nih.gov, cr214i@nih.gov
- Description
- The National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Cancer Institute (NCI), has a need to lease with the option to purchase an FEI Tecnai G2 Polara system with 2k x 2k CCD Camera and Gatan EFTEM system.. The acquisition will be conducted under the procedures for acquiring commercial items authorized in FAR Part 12 and the authority to use simplified procedures for commercial requirements provided in FAR 13.5. The North American Industry Classification System code is 532490 and the business size standard is $6M. Period of Performance: Date of Acceptance through September 2003 with a two one-year option periods. FAR Clause 52.217-8 Option to Extend Services (November 1999) and FAR Clause52.217-9 Option to Extend the Term of the Contract (March 2000) apply. Background: Without this instrumentation, the required scientific research and techniques cannot be carried out. The Tecnai G2 Polara provides improved specimen stability and specimen protection, and will significantly enhance capabilities for 1) structural determination of membrane proteins and membrane protein complexes at atomic resolution. 2) structural determination of macromolecular assemblies from single particle imaging studies. 3) Electron tomograghic studies to visualize the 3-dimensional architecture of cells at molecular resolution. Recent advances in electron microscopy have made molecular imaging on this scale possible on specimens that are not easy to study with X-ray diffraction and NMR spectroscopy. High resolution molecular imaging holds the key to unlocking the answers to many seemingly intractable biological problems in cancer and HIV/AIDS research, including cell-cell interactions, ligand-receptor binding, intracellular signaling and virus-mediated fusion. Only a few high resolution molecular imaging facilities exist in the world and NCI offers the environment necessary to support such an effort, including expertise in crystallography, molecular modeling, computational biology, and membrane protein biochemistry. The Government intends to trade-in an existing Tecnai F30 (TF30) Standard 300kV Field Emission Gun Electron Microscope with a computstage. Requirements: The Tecnai G2 Polara system shall be used for 1) Structural determination of membrane proteins and membrane protein complexes at atomic resolution, 2) Structural determination of macromolecular assemblies from single particle imaging studies, 3) Electron tomographic studies to visualize the 3-dimensional architecture of cells at molecular resolution and, 4) Contraction shall have all equipment installed and operational no later than June 1, 2003. Solicitation: The RFQ must be requested by electronic mail or facsimile only. Telephone requests will not be accepted. Requests for the RFQ shall be made to the attention of Malinda Holdcraft, Purchasing Agent via electronic mail at holdcram@exchange.nih.gov or fax at 301-402-4513. Requests shall include name of the contractor, DUNS number, telephone number, fax number, point of contact, business size standard, and identify the RFQ requested as RFQ-NCI-30035-NG. The estimated issue date of the solicitation package is April 28, 2003 and the estimated due date is May 7, 2003.
- Place of Performance
- Address: NIH/NCI, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD,
- Zip Code: 20892
- Country: USA
- Zip Code: 20892
- Record
- SN00302979-W 20030416/030414213328 (fbodaily.com)
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