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FBO DAILY - FEDBIZOPPS ISSUE OF DECEMBER 05, 2014 FBO #4759
SOLICITATION NOTICE

70 -- Mass Spectra Analysis PEAKS Studio Desktop7 Software and Maintenance

Notice Date

12/3/2014
 

Notice Type

Presolicitation
 

NAICS

511210 — Software Publishers
 

Contracting Office

Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Acquisition Management Division, 100 Bureau Drive, Building 301, Room B130, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 20899-1410, United States
 

ZIP Code

20899-1410
 

Solicitation Number

15-00019
 

Archive Date

1/1/2015
 

Point of Contact

Adam C. Powell, Phone: 301-975-2166
 

E-Mail Address

adam.powell@nist.gov
(adam.powell@nist.gov)
 

Small Business Set-Aside

N/A
 

Description

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Office of Acquisition and Agreements Management (OAAM), on behalf of the Biomolecular Measurement Division (BMD) within the Material Measurement Laboratory (MML), intends to enter into a sole source purchase order with Bioinformatics Solutions Inc. of Ontario, Canada under the authority of 41 USA 253(c)(1) - only one responsible source for PEAKS Studio Desktop7 mass spectra analysis software, software training, and software maintenance for a base period of one year up to four one-year option periods. The BMD is responsible for the development of peptide tandem mass spectral libraries. These libraries are constructed by searching hundreds of millions of mass spectra against theoretical fragmentation patterns derived from protein sequences. The theoretical matches are then refined to produce high-quality reference spectra for on-line distribution. NIST has successfully used multiple technologies for the evaluation of protein mass spectra including software systems developed at NIST and publicly available software platforms such as Open Mass Spectrometry Search Algorithm (OMSSA), Mascot Search Engine, and MS-GF+. Basis for Sole Source: The aforementioned PEAKS software examines mass spectral data to identify sequence tags, finding mass values corresponding to amino acids or post-translationally modified amino acids. This capability is unique to PEAKS Studio Dekstop7 and is not available from other software products. This capability is necessary for NIST to distinguish spectra derived from proteins. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this acquisition is 511210 - Software Publishers. The small business size standard is $38.5M. No solicitation package will be issued. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive quotations; however, responses received by 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time on December 17, 2014 will be considered by the Government. A determination by the Government not to compete the proposed acquisition based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information received will normally be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement.
 

Web Link

FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/DOC/NIST/AcAsD/15-00019/listing.html)
 

Place of Performance

Address: National Institute of Standards and Technology, 100 Bureau Drive, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 20899, United States

Zip Code: 20899
 

Record

SN03586455-W 20141205/141203234858-5b1ae832736ac33d83e918eba83fb569 (fbodaily.com)
 

Source

FedBizOpps Link to This Notice
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