SOLICITATION NOTICE
68 -- Custom Probes and Primers
- Notice Date
- 5/23/2007
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 325199
— All Other Basic Organic Chemical Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Procurement and Grants Office (Atlanta), 2920 Brandywine Road, Room 3000, Atlanta, GA, 30341-4146, UNITED STATES
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- 2006-Q-09572
- Response Due
- 5/30/2007
- Archive Date
- 5/31/2007
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) intends to award on the basis of sole source, a purchase order to Biosearch Technologies Inc., 81 Digital Drive, Novato, California, 94949 in accordance with FAR Part 13. The order will cover custom prepared primers, probes and biotin labeled primers for conjugation to microspheres. The authority for this sole source procurement is FAR part 6.302-1 in that Biosearch Technologies is original producer for the custom primers and probes used with the conjugated microspheres used to validate BioWatch Reagents. Custom synthesis and conjugations, especially with regard to changes in scale, can result in a high degree of variability from lot to lot. The BioWatch primers and probes produced by Biosearch, have been validated via testing conducted at other state and federal laboratories to ensure optimum reproducibility of test results. Biosearch Technologies is the only company that has an established, validated, and proprietary production process for the synthesis of primers and probes used with BioWatch microspheres. The purchase of this product from Biosearch Technologies will maintain consistency between the validated product and the produced product. The anticipated period of performance is one months from date the order is placed. To the best of our knowledge only Biosearch Technologies can provide the custom synthesized primers and probes needed to produce conjugated microspheres produced under the same conditions that the product was validated under. Screening alternate vendors would require additional validation processes which would create unacceptable delays in fulfilling the BioWatch reagent requirements. However, CDC will consider any other responsible source responding to the Request for Quotes (RFQ). The RFQ will be available for downloading when issued, approximately on May 24, 2007. All questions/concerns about the RFQ shall be submitted via e-mail to BBiltz@cdc.gov. It is your responsibility to keep up with additional postings regarding the RFP on the Fedbizopps Website.
- Place of Performance
- Address: Novato, CA
- Zip Code: 94949
- Country: UNITED STATES
- Zip Code: 94949
- Record
- SN01301149-W 20070525/070523220603 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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