SOLICITATION NOTICE
A -- Acquisition of Extracellular Analyzer, SOL-NC-14-00008
- Notice Date
- 2/21/2014
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 334516
— Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- 27711-0001
- ZIP Code
- 27711-0001
- Solicitation Number
- SOL-NC-14-00008
- Response Due
- 3/3/2014
- Archive Date
- 4/2/2014
- Point of Contact
- Jeffery Clodfelter
- E-Mail Address
-
Clodfelter.Jeffery@epa.gov
(Clodfelter.Jeffery@epa.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- NAICS Code: 334516 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) intends to negotiate, on a sole source basis, with Seahorse Bioscience, Inc, 16 Esquire Rd, North Billerica, MD 01862 for the acquisition of a XFE96 Extracellular Analyzer. This instrument is necessary to analyze data for the National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory (NHEERL). The instrument will be used by the EPA to confirm and characterize how environmental chemicals identified by high-throughput screening (HTS) approaches adversely affect the function of human mitochondria. The EPA believes this is the only instrument on the market that measure oxygen consumption (OCR; indicative of active mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation) as well as extracellular acidification (ECAR; indicative of glycolysis) in real-time, using live living cells maintained at 37 degrees Celsius in an non-invasive manner, such that cells can be used for subsequent applications. Therefore, the EPA has identified Seahorse Bioscience, Inc as the only vendor capable of satisfying these requirements. The circumstance permitting is FAR 6.302-1 ?Only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements?. All interested parties who believe they can provide the required services should fully explain their capabilities and qualifications in w riting within 10 days from the date of this announcement and provide itemized pricing that is sufficient to make a determination that competition is available. The intent of this notice is to determine if any other sources(s) exist, and therefore, no solicitation (RFP) is available. Consequently, anyone failing to provide the aforementioned and instead chooses to merely submit a routine letter requesting a copy of the statement of work or more information about the project will be ignored. The information received to this notice will be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether or not to conduct a competitive procurement. Please submit response to the U.S. EPA, Attn: Jeffery Clodfelter (MC-E105-02), RTP Procurement Operations Division, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711. No telephone or faxed requests will be honored.
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- Record
- SN03294155-W 20140223/140221235113-7521dfba33c46836628536d46c5b3121 (fbodaily.com)
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