SOLICITATION NOTICE
66 -- CTF DSQ-3500 RTMEN Electronics Upgrade
- Notice Date
- 8/20/2012
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 334516
— Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Station Support/Simplified Acquisitions, 31 Center Drive, Room 1B59, Bethesda, Maryland, 20892
- ZIP Code
- 20892
- Solicitation Number
- 2609005
- Archive Date
- 9/11/2012
- Point of Contact
- Jasmine D Snoddy, Phone: 301 594 1571
- E-Mail Address
-
snoddyj@mail.nih.gov
(snoddyj@mail.nih.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Station Support/Simplified Acquisition (SS/SA) Branch, on behalf of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)-MEG Core Facility intends to negotiate and award on a non-competitive basis purchase order to MEG International Services, Ltd., 1850 Hartley Avenue, Unit 1, Coquitlam, BC, V3K 7A1 Canada for the purchase of an CTF DSQ-3500 RTMEN Electronics upgrade. The MEG Core Facility operates a 275 channel whole head CTF MEG system as shared resources for the Intramural Research Programs of NIMH and NINDS. MEG (magnetoencephalography) is a sophisticated technique allowing high resolution recording of brain activity and forms a vital part of the neuroimaging research program. The instrument is in full time use by 40 investigators as part of the program mission of the institutes. MEG International Services, Inc is the successor company to VSM MedTech and as such hold all the proprietary knowledge of the CTF MEG system as well as the only known source of highly specialized and proprietary spare parts. Because of the proprietary and complex character of the system no other provider is possible. It is determined that MEG International Services is the only source to provide the CTF DSQ-3500 RTMEN Electronics upgrade and no other sources would satisfy the agency's requirement. The acquisition is being conducted under simplified acquisition using FAR Part 13 procedures and exempt from the requirement of FAR Part 6, Competition Requirement. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals. Interested parties may identify their interest and capabilities in response to this synopsis. The determination by the Government not to compete the proposed contract based upon responses to this notice is solely with the discretion of the Government. Comments to this announcement, referencing synopsis number 2609005 may be submitted to the NIDA, Station Support/Simplified Acquisition Branch, 31 Center Drive, Room 1B59, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-2080 and Attention: Jasmine Snoddy, Contract Specialist or email at Snoddyj@mail.nih.gov.
- Web Link
-
FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/HHS/NIH/NIDA-2/2609005/listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Address: Bethesda, Maryland, 20892, United States
- Zip Code: 20892
- Zip Code: 20892
- Record
- SN02847145-W 20120822/120821000054-87a3ab50f7bdd6c2eec11c5497a1fbc4 (fbodaily.com)
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