SOURCES SOUGHT
H -- External Laboratory Services
- Notice Date
- 5/31/2012
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541380
— Testing Laboratories
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Treasury, Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP), Office of Acquisition, 14th & C Streets, S.W., Washington, District of Columbia, 20228
- ZIP Code
- 20228
- Solicitation Number
- BEP-RFI-12-0197
- Point of Contact
- Donald I Baron, Phone: (202)874-3143
- E-Mail Address
-
Donald.Baron@bep.treas.gov
(Donald.Baron@bep.treas.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- This is a Sources Sought Notice ONLY. Requests for copies of a solicitation will not receive a response. The Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP) is issuing this Sources Sought Notice (Notice) in order to identify companies, preferably small businesses that can provide Gas Chromatography with Mass Spectrometry detection (GCMS) and/or Pyrolysis Gas Chromatography with Mass Spectrometry detection (Py-GCMS) analysis for high viscosity suspensions and rubber materials. The objective of the analysis is to understand material interactions. Samples would require solvent extractions to be analyzed by GCMS and or sample preparation for Py-GCMS. Interested vendors are requested to submit Technical Information that includes, but not limited to the following: 1) reference to Sources Sought number; 2) company name, address, telephone number, and website address (if available); 3) the type of business (large or small); 4) the name, telephone number, and e-mail address of a technical point of contact having the authority and knowledge to clarify responses with Government representatives and 5) technical literature regarding the type of test services your company can provide. This Notice is for planning purposes only and shall not be construed as a Request for Proposal or Request for Quote or as an obligation on the part of BEP for conducting a follow-on-acquisition. BEP does not intend to award a contract on the basis of this Notice, or otherwise pay for the information requested. No entitlement or payment of direct or indirect costs or charges by BEP will arise as a result of submission of responses to this Notice and BEP use of such information. BEP recognizes that proprietary data may be part of this effort. If so, respondents are responsible for identifying proprietary components, interfaces and equipment, and clearly mark restricted or proprietary data and present it as an addendum to the non-restricted / non-proprietary information. See Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 3.104.4; 52.215-1(e). In the absence of such identification, BEP will assume to have unlimited rights to all technical data in the information paper. NO SOLICITATION DOCUMENTS EXISTS AT THIS TIME. The North American Industries Classification System (NAICS) code for Testing Services is 541380. This Notice is not to be construed as a commitment by BEP and does not imply an intention or the opportunity to acquire funding to support current or future efforts. Respondents will not be notified of the results of the information submitted. Companies are requested to submit the aforementioned Technical Information to the point of contact identified below by no later than 3:00PM Eastern Time June 7, 2012. Questions regarding this Notice may be addressed to the following point of contact: Primary Point of Contact: Donald Baron Contract Specialist donald.baron@bep.gov
- Web Link
-
FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/TREAS/BEP/OPDC20220/BEP-RFI-12-0197/listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Address: Bureau of Engraving and Printing, 9000 Blue Mound Road, Fort Worth, Texas, 76131, United States
- Zip Code: 76131
- Zip Code: 76131
- Record
- SN02762828-W 20120602/120601000031-6b6bc3d6efa697cc984942a54870b0f5 (fbodaily.com)
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