SOLICITATION NOTICE
J -- Waters Corporation Maintenance Services
- Notice Date
- 2/23/2012
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 334516
— Analytical Laboratory Instrument 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-14261
- 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 Waters Corporation, 34 Maple Street, Milford, MA 01757. The contract will 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. Waters Corp. is the sole manufacturer of the Waters Corp. Pumps, Detectors, HPLCs, UPLC and separations modules that is needed to be maintained. The Division of Laboratory Sciences utilizes a variety of Laboratory equipment from Waters to accomplish its public health mission. These instruments are used to perform critical chemical analyses in support of its public health mission. These instruments are used in analyses performed for chemical terrorism/emergency response, and in research and development to establish new analytical methods for a broad variety of sample types. 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 Waters 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 Waters Corp. HPLCs and UPLCs as well as being experts in the repair of related pumps, detectors and modules which are attached to Waters Corp instruments. Waters Corp. sells these pumps, detectors as part of their systems and can offer service at competitive rates. Waters Corporation has proven to be knowledgeable, reliable, and efficient regarding installation, repair, and maintenance of their HPLCs/UPLCs and the associated pumps. Additionally, Waters Corp. 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. Waters 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 Waters Corp. CDC believes that Waters Corp. 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-14261 in the subject line, no later than 12:00 pm Eastern Time, 09 March 2012.
- Web Link
-
FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/HHS/CDCP/PGOA/2012-N-14261/listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Address: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Centers for environmental Health, Division of Latoratory Sciences, 4770 Boford Highway, Atlanta, Georgia, 30341, United States
- Zip Code: 30341
- Zip Code: 30341
- Record
- SN02681824-W 20120225/120223235238-c9f608925ccdd1958f2ac28db6c9d00c (fbodaily.com)
- Source
-
FedBizOpps Link to This Notice
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