SOLICITATION NOTICE
J -- Cerulean Corp. Maintenance Services
- Notice Date
- 2/23/2012
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 334519
— Other Measuring and Controlling Device Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Procurement and Grants Office (Atlanta), 2920 Brandywine Road, Room 3000, Atlanta, Georgia, 30341-4146
- ZIP Code
- 30341-4146
- Solicitation Number
- 2012-N-14260
- Archive Date
- 3/24/2012
- Point of Contact
- Richard Jenkins, Phone: 7704882604, Richard Jenkins, Phone: 7704882604
- E-Mail Address
-
rjenkins@cdc.gov, rjenkins@cdc.gov
(rjenkins@cdc.gov, rjenkins@cdc.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Center for Environmental Health, Division of Laboratory Sciences (DLS) intends to award a sole source firm-fixed price maintenance agreement contract to Cerulean Corporation, 3900 Carolina Avenue, Richmond, VA 23237. The contract shall be for a base year of 12 months with 4 option years of 12 months each. The statutory authority for this sole source acquisition is 10 U.S.C 2304(c) (1) in accordance with FAR Part 6.302-1- only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy the agency requirement. Cerulean Corp. is the sole manufacturer of the Cerulean Corp. laboratory instruments that is needed to be maintained. The Division of Laboratory Sciences utilizes a variety of Smoking Machines, the QTM500, C2 Hopper, PPM 1000M, SM410 and SM450 from Cerulean Corp. to accomplish its public health mission. These smoking machines are used in analysis of samples related to tobacoco analysis and research and development to establish new analytic methods. These instruments are used in mission critical research projects and analyses for DLS, and it is crucial that they are not allowed to be off of a service agreement for any period of time. The service engineers with Cerulean are highly experienced with the equipment itself and with understanding the critical requirements in place due to our division's emergency response duties. Additionally their engineers have been factory trained and certified for repairs and maintenance of Cerulean Corp. smoking machines as well as being experts in the repair of related instruments. Cerulean sells these items as part of their smoking machine systems and can offer service at competitive rates. Cerulean has proven to be knowledgeable, reliable, and efficient regarding installation, repair, and maintenance of their smoking machines and the associated equipment. Additionally, Cerulean is clearly able to communicate on the status of equipment maintenance and repair projects. Their field service representatives provided prompt responses to all CDC needs. Cerulean provides on-site, dedicated engineers so that response is virtually immediate. They also maintained an on-site inventory of replacement parts and equipment so that in the case of instrument failures repair and service requests require the least amount of time possible. No solicitation will be posted to FedBizOpps. We will only issue a solicitation to Cerulean Corp.. CDC believes that Cerulean is the only source available to provide this service that meets mission critical requirements. This notice of intent is not a request for proposal. A determination to compete this procurement based on a response to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Contracting Officer. Interested parties who believe they possess the capability to satisfy this requirement should submit a capability statement demonstrating their ability to meet this requirement. All responses must be sent in writing to Mr. Richard Jenkins via email to rbj3@cdc.gov using solicitation number 2012-N-14260 in the subject line, no later than 01:00 pm Eastern Time, 09 March 2012.
- Web Link
-
FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/HHS/CDCP/PGOA/2012-N-14260/listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Address: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Cernter for Envirnmental Health, Division of Laboratory Sciences, 4770 Buford Highway, Atlanta, Georgia, 30341, United States
- Zip Code: 30341
- Zip Code: 30341
- Record
- SN02681777-W 20120225/120223235203-5deed9338858926415d4813bbfd29da8 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
-
FedBizOpps Link to This Notice
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