SOURCES SOUGHT
J -- ELEMENT XR SERVICE
- Notice Date
- 8/8/2014
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 811219
— Other Electronic and Precision Equipment Repair and Maintenance
- Contracting Office
- USGS OAG DENVER ACQUISITION BRANCHPO BOX 25046204 DENVER FEDERAL CENTERDENVERCO80225-0046US
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- 0040150697
- Response Due
- 8/22/2014
- Archive Date
- 9/21/2014
- Point of Contact
- JMARKLEY
- E-Mail Address
-
Markley, Jason
(jmarkley@usgs.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- This Pre-solicitation 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 Thermo Electron North America, LLC on a sole-source basis, for an annual support plan agreement with a base period of 365 days and 4 one year optional periods. The annual support plan agreement covered by this purchase applies to the following equipment: Thermo Electron ELEMENT-XR High Resolution Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer (ICP-MS) The USGS has concluded that this service is unique and only available from Thermo Electron North America, LLC. The reasons justifying a sole source acquisition is a lack of competition. The specifics of the acquisition that permit limiting competition are: Several critical components on this instrumentation (magnet, electrostatic analyzer, quadrupole ion optics and rf power supply boards, ion lens system, detector readout assemblies, RF generators, circuit control boards, etc.) are patented items and are only available from the instrument manufacturer (Thermo Electron) and are not licensed to be sold to external 3rd party service providers. In addition, only Thermo Electron factory-trained service personnel have the technical data and knowledge required to repair the instrumentation if it should fail. Because this instrumentation is already owned and used by USGS, the request is made for sole-source service request from Thermo Electron, currently the only source of service and parts for this instrumentation. In order to be responsive to this Notice, a firm must provide the appropriate capability statement for consideration no later than 15 days after the date of this notice. 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: Jason J. Markley Contracting Officer, USGS Denver Federal Center Box 25046, Mail Stop 204 Denver, CO 80225 jmarkley@usgs.gov
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- Record
- SN03457931-W 20140810/140808235051-d510a86cbbab16fe9692f6e3a961de0a (fbodaily.com)
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