SPECIAL NOTICE
66 -- Perform maintenance on Lab equipment
- Notice Date
- 2/15/2012
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 334516
— Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Administrative Services Division/Purchasing, 100 North 6TH Street, Butler Square, 5TH Floor, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 55403, United States
- ZIP Code
- 55403
- Solicitation Number
- AG-6395-S-12-0047
- Point of Contact
- Leigh D. Eberhart, Phone: 6123363206
- E-Mail Address
-
Leigh.D.Eberhart@aphis.usda.gov
(Leigh.D.Eberhart@aphis.usda.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- 1. Sole Source Justification 2. Authority FAR 6.302-1 3. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Grain Inspection, Packers & Stockyards Administration (GIPSA), Field Grain Inspection Service (FGIS), Technical Services Division, Kansas City, MO intends to award a sole source purchase order to Thermo Electron North America LLC, 1400 N Point Pkwy, STE 10, West Palm Beach, FL 33407-1976. Thermo Electron North America and Thermo Fisher Scientific is the only source known to build, service, repair and provide maintenance for the TSQ Quantum XLS and GC/MS/MS maintenance as follows. 4. This requirement is for a purchase order to perform maintenance on the TSQ Quantum XLS and GC/MS/MS maintenance consisting of the follow. • Unlimited number of demand on-site service visits with a maximum 72 hour response. • Engineer labor and travel is included. • Priority status for technical support inquiries, response within 2 hours. • One (1) Scheduled Preventative Maintenance visit. • Thermo Scientific supplied personal computers are covered. • Factory-Certified replacement parts included. • Software updates and notifications. • Subscription to e-Support Online Technical Resources. 5. Thermo Fisher Scientific is the sole manufacture of this instrument and software. They are the only company certified to provide support, maintenance and upgrade services to ensure that instrumentation, sampling accessories and software will continue to perform according to original manufacturing specs. Thermo Fisher Scientific trained and certified Field Service Engineers (FSEs) and Technical Support Representatives are available to service and offer support for this instrument. 6. A determination by the Government not to compete with this proposed contract based on responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Simplified procurement procedures will be used as well as commercial item acquisition regulations per FAR12. Number note 22 applies. Any inquires for this acquisition must be submitted in writing to the attention of Leigh Eberhart at Leigh.D.Eberhart@aphis.usda.gov The NACIS Code for this acquisition is 334516 with a size standard of 500 people.
- Web Link
-
FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/USDA/APHIS/Purchasing/AG-6395-S-12-0047/listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Address: USDA GIPSA FGIS, Tech Services Div., 10383 North Ambassador, Kansas City, Missouri, 64153, United States
- Zip Code: 64153
- Zip Code: 64153
- Record
- SN02675875-W 20120217/120215234446-c3b301b82c78e56aa106e9a2d65a49a6 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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