SOLICITATION NOTICE
66 -- Maintenance Service Agreement for 5 AB Sciex LC/MS Instruments
- Notice Date
- 7/21/2010
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 334516
— Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Acquisition Management Division, 100 Bureau Drive, Building 301, Room B129, Mail Stop 1640, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 20899-1640
- ZIP Code
- 20899-1640
- Solicitation Number
- NB839020-A-04757
- Archive Date
- 8/19/2010
- Point of Contact
- Paula Wilkison, Phone: 301-975-8448, Todd D Hill, Phone: 301-975-8802
- E-Mail Address
-
paula.wilkison@nist.gov, todd.hill@nist.gov
(paula.wilkison@nist.gov, todd.hill@nist.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), intends to negotiate a firm fixed price purchase order, on a sole source basis, with AB Sciex LLC of Foster City, California for the purchase of a Maintenance Service Agreement for 5 AB Sciex LC/MS Instruments under other than full and open competition by the authority of FAR subpart 6.302-1: Only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements. This support plan shall provide: 1.Preventative maintenance; 2.Guaranteed priority response by factory certified engineers; 3.Copyrighted advanced service diagnostic; 4.Labor and travel fees; 5.Covered replacement parts; 6.Formal escalation procedure/process; 7.Priority technical assistance center support; 8.Priority application technical phone support; 9.Smart monitoring. The overall complexity of the system (consisting of computer-controlled ion mass separation and detection electronics, computer data acquisition and control elements, extremely sensitive electrospray ionization chambers, ion traps, ion collision and fragmentation chambers, and autosamplers) necessitates an extremely detailed and intricate knowledge of the system, its components, and the software that controls them to maintain the system (Except for the liquid chromatographs, the control computer, the video monitor, and the printers, all the components of the system are custom-designed and manufactured by AB Sciex). Maintaining such a system requires not only special knowledge, but also special test programs, test equipment, software, and tools. Resources to meet such requirements can only be obtained by working with the original manufacturer of the equipment. AB Sciex maintains their detailed design information, electrical and electronic schematics, and computer code for their systems as proprietary information available only to their design, manufacturing, and service personnel. AB Sciex LLC is the only contractor who can provide a Maintenance/Service Contract for the API4000, 4000 QTRAP, and API5000 instruments, the technology is proprietary, and there are no distributors. No other vendor is authorized to maintain these AB Sciex instruments. Delivery shall be FOB Destination, Gaithersburg, MD, and be completed in accordance with the Contractor’s commercial schedule. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this acquisition is 333314, and the size standard is 500 employees. No solicitation package will be issued. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive quotations; however, interested persons may identify their interest and capability to respond to this requirement. The Government will consider responses received by 12:00 p.m. (EST) on August 4, 2010. Inquiries will only be accepted via email to paula.wilkison@nist.gov. No telephone requests will be honored. A determination by the Government not to compete the proposed acquisition based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information received will normally be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement in the future.
- Web Link
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FBO.gov Permalink
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- Place of Performance
- Address: TBD, United States
- Record
- SN02212499-W 20100723/100721234836-8e0f12e95b81c8ba06a9c8a78a6bb550 (fbodaily.com)
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