SOLICITATION NOTICE
68 -- DICHLOROMETHANE
- Notice Date
- 6/10/2013
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 325998
— All Other Miscellaneous Chemical Product and Preparation Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- USGS OAG DENVER ACQUISITION BRANCHPO BOX 25046204 DENVER FEDERAL CENTERDENVERCO80225-0046US
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- G13PS00457
- Response Due
- 6/25/2013
- Archive Date
- 7/25/2013
- Point of Contact
- Callista Weatherford
- E-Mail Address
-
cweatherford@usgs.gov
(cweatherford@usgs.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- This Presolicitation Notice is to announce that the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is proposing to negotiate a contract with VWR, on a sole-source basis, for VWR for pesticide-grade dichloromethane. The National Water Quality Laboratory (NWQL) requires a consistent, high quality, pesticide-grade dichloromethane for extracting trace-level priority pollutants from a wide variety of environmental samples. The reasons justifying this lack of competition are based on the following description of specific qualifications the Government requires of the dichloromethane to meet its minimum need: The following specifications are required in order to fulfill NWQL requirements: A. Dichloromethane Solvent Specifications: 1. Preservative: Cyclohexene 2. Water: Less than 0.01% by Karl Fischer titration 3. Refractive index: 1.4241 0.0005 at 20C 4. Acidity: Not detectable (limit one mg/L as HCl) 5. Residue: Less than one mg/L 6. Purity: Greater than 99.9% by GC analysis 7. Chloride: Not detectable (limit 10 mg/L) 8. Electron capture GC: No residue peaks greater than 10 ng/L as Heptachlor epoxide. 9. The supplied product cannot be preserved with amylene to interference caused by this preservative in the NWQL's analytical processes. B. Solvent container specifications: 1. High purity solvent shall be contained in a cleaned and inert liner inside a rigid stainless steel over-pack. 2. The containers shall be recyclable, such that containers are returned to the vendor for refilling, while replacement, filled, exchange containers are delivered to the NWQL to enable uninterrupted operation. 3. The containers should be cleaned and maintained such that the solvent specifications in (A) above are maintained at all times under normal operating conditions. 4. The containers shall be designed for applications requiring continuous pressure of at least 15 psig. 5. The containers shall have a capacity of 20 liters 4liters of dichloromethane. 6. The containers shall be compatible with the NWQL-owned NOW Technologies Model # ND-LD 15 adaptor kit for transfer of the solvent, or include a similar adaptor to fit with existing NWQL hardware. Since changing to another product that may include analytes in the analyses for which this product is used, there is the potential that switching to another product without rigorous testing could result in changes to data. The data produced by the NWQL is used in long term trends which can be impacted at very trace level of target analytes. Purchase from a vendor other than VWR would require quality assurance (QA) testing at the NWQL that would be cost prohibitive. Attached is a list of items tested. In order to be responsive to this Notice, a firm must provide the appropriate capability statement for consideration by 3PM Mountain Time on 06/25/2013. Responses that do not comply with these procedures will not be considered. Requests for information and subsequent responses may be emailed or mailed to the point-of-contact specified below. Firms are cautioned that this is not a solicitation. All costs associated with providing information as requested by this Notice shall be the responsibility of the responding firm. Contact: Callista Weatherford Contract Specialist, USGS Denver Federal Center Box 25046, Mail Stop 204 Denver, CO 80225 cweatherford@usgs.gov
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