SOURCES SOUGHT
66 -- iNSTRUMENTS AND LABORATORY EQUIPMENT
- Notice Date
- 11/17/2010
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 334516
— Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Rockledge Dr. Bethesda, MD, Office of Acquisitions, 6701 Rockledge Dr RKL2/6100 MSC 7902, Bethesda, Maryland, 20892-7902
- ZIP Code
- 20892-7902
- Solicitation Number
- NHLBI-PB-(HL)-2011-023-DDC
- Archive Date
- 12/11/2010
- Point of Contact
- Deborah - Coulter, Phone: (301) 435-0368
- E-Mail Address
-
dc143b@nih.gov
(dc143b@nih.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- This Sources Sought Notice (SS) is for information and planning purposes only and shall not be construed as a solicitation or as an obligation on the part of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI). The purpose of this SS is to identify qualified small business concerns [including Small Disadvantaged Businesses (SDB), Woman-owned Small Businesses (WOSB), Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone) Small Businesses, Veteran-Owned Small Businesses (VOSB) and Service-Disabled Veteran-owned Small Businesses (SDVOSB] that are interested in and capable of providing the below Pad Reactor System and accessories. The NHLBI does not intend to award a contract on the basis of responses nor otherwise pay for the preparation of any information submitted. As a result of this Sources Sought notice, the NHLBI may issue a Request for Quote (RFQ). THERE IS NO SOLICITATION AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME. However, should such a requirement materialize, no basis for claims against NHLBI shall arise as a result of a response to this Sources Sought notice or the NHLBI’s use of such information as either part of our evaluation process or in developing specifications for any subsequent requirement. The NHLBI is seeking capability statements from all eligible small business concerns [particularly Small Disadvantaged Businesses (SDB), Woman-owned Small Businesses (WOSB), Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone) Small Businesses, Veteran-Owned Small Businesses (VOSB) and Service-Disabled Veteran-owned Small Businesses (SDVOSB)] under the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code 334516 with a size standard 500 employees. Based on the responses received from this SOURCES SOUGHT announcement, the proposed acquisition may be solicited as a Total Small Business Set-Aside. All eligible small business concerns responding to this Sources Sought Announcement must have the capabilities to provide services as below. Major tasks required of the Contractor include the following: Government Specifications for Bioreactor: The Laboratory of Molecular Physiology (LMP) is seeking to purchase a Stopped-Flow Spectrofluorimeter in order to carry out kinetic analysis of purified myosin proteins. This instrument is used to probe intermediate steps in the kinetic cycle in order to determine the mechanism of interaction with actin and ATP. The machine that the Government requires must have rapid mixing capability in order to be able to measure fast reactions, low sample volume and high spectral sensitivity in order to conserve sample amounts and a programmable automatic shuttering device in order to allow the measurement of long time courses without appreciable photobleaching. Below are the Governments required specifications. 1) An automatic, computer controlled shuttering device to minimize photo damage during long acquisitions must be present. 2) Flow cell must be easily removed to allow the attachment of specialized cells 3) A small volume flow cell (5 microliters) must be included as an option 4) The stop/waste valve should be ceramic. 5) Data acquisition should be via an over-sampled 12 bit, 1.2 MHz A/D 6) The flow circuit should be a vertical system with filling from the top. 7) The machine must be capable of double mixing with no plumbing changes 8) There must be two photomuliplier detectors. 9) Must be capable of using a 75 W xenon lamp or a mercury-xenon lamp. 10) The reagent shot volume should be 40 microliters or less per reagent 11) Dead times of < 1.6 ms must be obtainable. Interested qualified small business organizations should submit a tailored capability statement for this requirement, not to exceed 20 single-sided pages (including all attachments, resumes, charts, etc.) presented in single-space and using a 12-point font size minimum, that clearly details the ability to perform the aspects of the notice described above and in the draft SOW. All proprietary information should be marked as such. Statements should also include an indication of current certified small business status; this indication should be clearly marked on the first page of your capability statement (preferably placed under the eligible small business concern’s name and address). Responses will be reviewed only by NIH personnel and will be held in a confidential manner. All capability Statements sent in response to this SOURCES SOUGHT notice must be submitted electronically (via email) to Deborah Coulter Contract Specialist, at coulterd@nhlbi.nih.gov in either MS Word or Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF), by November 26, 7:30 AM, EST. All responses must be received by the specified due date and time in order to be considered.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: Building 10 NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, 20892, United States
- Zip Code: 20892
- Zip Code: 20892
- Record
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