SPECIAL NOTICE
Z -- Maintenance - FDA NOI 1149184
- Notice Date
- 9/28/2015
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 811219
— Other Electronic and Precision Equipment Repair and Maintenance
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, Food and Drug Administration, Office of Acquisitions and Grants Services - Rockville, 5630 Fishers Lane, Room 2129, Rockville, Maryland, 20857-0001, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20857-0001
- Solicitation Number
- FDANOI-1149184
- Point of Contact
- Telisha Wilson, Phone: 2404027572
- E-Mail Address
-
telisha.wilson@fda.hhs.gov
(telisha.wilson@fda.hhs.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Maintenance The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) intends to negotiate a Firm Fixed Price sole source purchase order for Maintenance of laboratory equipment and the associated software used to operate the equipment all of which are the proprietary products of Waters Technologies Incorporated. Maintenance of the software implies the contract will be for 1 year plus 4 option years that will allow for additions and deletions to the contract over that period. 1. CRITICAL FEATURES THAT MUST BE INCLUDED IN THE CONTRACT: A. Additions and deletions of hardware and software components. New equipment is periodically obtained and existing equipment is surplused periodically. When this happens it makes no sense to continue paying for equipment that has been surplused. The contract covers 85 hardware components and 19 software licenses. Renegotiating the contract each time an item is deleted or added wouldn't be a worthwhile use of time and expense for the government. B. Offerer for this contract shall use only technicians certified by Waters Technologies Inc. to work on this equipment. Proof of up to date certification in the form of a certificates issued by Waters Technologies Inc. must be made on demand prior to award of the contract. C. Offerer shall provide proof prior to the award of the contract that they are able to and will use only parts certified by Waters Technologies Inc. to repair or maintain all this equipment. D. Offerer shall provide proof prior to the award of the contract that they are able to and will provide all software upgrades to the Empower software provided by Waters Technologies as they become available from Waters. E. Offerer prior to award of the contract certify they shall replace any of the covered equipment with the same model equipment from Waters Technologies Inc. in the event they are unable to repair the equipment in a timely manner. F. Offerer shall provide technical support Monday thru Friday 9:00 am to 5:00 pm for both hardware and software. This support will be both on site and over the phone. Offerer shall use only technicians certified by Waters Technologies Inc. to provide this support. In accordance with FAR 5.207(c)(16)(ii), vendors that feel they can meet the Government's requirements detailed above may submit a capability statement which shall be considered by the agency. A determination by the Government not to open the requirement to competition based on responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. In accordance with FAR 6.305(a) the justification will be made publicly available within 14 days after award has been made. The acquisition will be conducted through the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 13 "Simplified Acquisition Procedures". The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this requirement is 811219 All Other Information Services. The business size standard is $20.5 Million Dollars. THIS NOTICE IS NOT A REQUEST FOR COMPETITIVE PROPOSALS, however, interested firms may submit a capability statement in response to the above requirement with pricing information by October 05, 2015 @ 3:00 PM ET to Telisha.Wilson, Contract Specialist, Phone: (240) 402-7572, Email: Telisha.Wilson@fda.hhs.gov. A determination not to open competition based responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government.
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