DOCUMENT
A -- Qiagen Resgents - Attachment
- Notice Date
- 9/15/2012
- Notice Type
- Attachment
- NAICS
- 334516
— Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Department of Veterans Affairs;VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System;Acquisitions (90A);1010 Delafield Road;Pittsburgh PA 15215-1802
- ZIP Code
- 15215-1802
- Solicitation Number
- VA24412Q1803
- Response Due
- 9/19/2012
- Archive Date
- 10/19/2012
- Point of Contact
- Gregory Burgess
- E-Mail Address
-
822-3780<br
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Veteran-Owned Small Business
- Description
- This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in FAR Subpart 12.6. The Department of Veteran Affairs seeks to improve vendor access by soliciting quotes on a ˜Brand Name or Equal ™ basis for QIAGEN reagents. The successful Offeror will be determined based on lowest price technically acceptable to the Government. In responding to this request for quote, you must provide the manufacturer's name and part numbers AND salient characteristics of the items you are proposing to sell to the Government. Regardless of the terminology used in each RFQ ("Brand Name or Equal"), the information describing what you are offering must meet or exceed the salient characteristics of the referenced item. Salient characteristics are defined as "pronounced features of an item that identify it, describe its size and composition, functional intent, and/or operational capabilities or limits." When researching product capabilities, you must, as a minimum, respond with feature for feature comparisons in order for your product to be technically evaluated for sufficiency. This solicitation is set-aside for Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business and Veteran Owned Small Business. Seek to procure the following items: Qiagen Part #Description Quantity PAMM-075ZD-12RT2 Profiler PCR Array House Transcription Factors 1 EA PAMM-020ZD-12RT2 Profiler PCR Array Mouse Cell Cycle 1 EA 330131Custom RT2 Profiler PCR Array (CAPM11367D) Mouse Custom Array 1 EA 330401RT First Strand Kits. (12) 2 EA 330503RT2 SYBR Green qPCR Mastermix (24) 2 EA 52.211-6 Brand Name or Equal (Aug 1999) (a) If an item in this solicitation is identified as œbrand name or equal, the purchase description reflects the characteristics and level of quality that will satisfy the Government ™s needs. The salient physical, functional, or performance characteristics that œequal products must meet are specified in the solicitation. (b) To be considered for award, offers of œequal products, including œequal products of the brand name manufacturer, must ” (1) Meet the salient physical, functional, or performance characteristic specified in this solicitation; (2) Clearly identify the item by ” (i) Brand name, if any; and (ii) Make or model number; (3) Include descriptive literature such as illustrations, drawings, or a clear reference to previously furnished descriptive data or information available to the Contracting Officer; and (4) Clearly describe any modification the offeror plans to make in a product to make it conform to the solicitation requirements. Mark any descriptive material to clearly show the modification. (c) The Contracting Officer will evaluate œequal products on the basis of information furnished by the offeror or identified in the offer and reasonably available to the Contracting Officer. The Contracting Officer is not responsible for locating or obtaining any information not identified in the offer. (d) Unless the offeror clearly indicates in its offer that the product being offered is an œequal product, the offeror shall provide the brand name product referenced in the solicitation. (End of provision)
- Web Link
-
FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/VA/PiVAMC646/PiVAMC646/VA24412Q1803/listing.html)
- Document(s)
- Attachment
- File Name: VA244-12-Q-1803 VA244-12-Q-1803_1.doc (https://www.vendorportal.ecms.va.gov/FBODocumentServer/DocumentServer.aspx?DocumentId=478220&FileName=VA244-12-Q-1803-000.doc)
- Link: https://www.vendorportal.ecms.va.gov/FBODocumentServer/DocumentServer.aspx?DocumentId=478220&FileName=VA244-12-Q-1803-000.doc
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- File Name: VA244-12-Q-1803 VA244-12-Q-1803_1.doc (https://www.vendorportal.ecms.va.gov/FBODocumentServer/DocumentServer.aspx?DocumentId=478220&FileName=VA244-12-Q-1803-000.doc)
- Record
- SN02884623-W 20120917/120915233529-b68f4e2967c723a3cd5b5d9d6ab810a1 (fbodaily.com)
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