SOLICITATION NOTICE
66 -- Acquisition of carrier trays for operating Titertek Quadflex liquid handling system
- Notice Date
- 2/1/2013
- 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
- 2013-Q-15400
- Archive Date
- 3/3/2013
- Point of Contact
- Liubov A. Kriel, Phone: 7704882856
- E-Mail Address
-
vyh1@cdc.gov
(vyh1@cdc.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH), Division of Laboratory Science (DLS), intends to award a sole source purchase order to Titertek Instruments, Inc., 330 Wynn Dr. NW, Suite 100, Huntsville, AL 35805-1965 for the purchase of carrier trays for operating Titertek Quadflex liquid handling system. 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. The NAICS code for this procurement is 334516, Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing. The purpose of this acquisition is to purchase customized carrier trays for operating one-of-a-kind Titertek Quadflex liquid handling system, which produces dried blood spot materials for newborn screening quality assurance (QA). This type of liquid handling system is the only one in the world. The lab needs additional trays and equipment for the system in order to increase capacity and through-put of dried-blood spot QA materials. Titertek Instruments, Inc. is the only responsible source capable of meeting the Government's requirement because they are the only vendor who has the ability to make these customized carrier trays for the liquid handling system that is used to make close to a million spots per year. The Titertek Quadflex liquid handling system dispenses whole human blood at the lab specifications onto specialized filter paper cards. The filter paper cards are held by carrier tray that is made specifically by Titertek for the Titertek Quadflex liquid handling system. There carrier trays are customized to hold the specially sized filter paper cards and to hold these cards in place and facilitate complete drying of the applied blood spots. Each tray holds only nine cards so it takes many trays to make the thousands of dried blood spot cards that are needed each quarter. Other liquid handling systems cannot dispense whole blood for making dried blood spot QA materials to the agency's specifications. Thus, Titertek Instruments, Inc., the manufacturer of customized Titertek carrier trays for Titertek Quadflex liquid handling system, is the only company that can be used. As a result of this synopsis, no competitive solicitation will be posted on FedBizOpps. We will issue only one solicitation to Titertek Instruments, Inc.. However, firms that believe they can meet these requirements are encouraged to identify themselves and give written notice by providing a capability statement to the Contract Specialist by February 16, 2013. The Contract Specialist will not respond to verbal request. All requests must be in writing. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed action will be based on responses to this notice and are solely within the discretion of the Contracting Officer. Information received will be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. Inquiries shall be sent to Liubov Kriel by email at vyh1@cdc.gov and reference solicitation number 2013-Q-15400 on the subject line.
- Web Link
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FBO.gov Permalink
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- Place of Performance
- Address: CDC Facility, Atalanta, Georgia, United States
- Record
- SN02978038-W 20130203/130201234504-9926e56bb6c62da635efbe2739a2fe27 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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