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FBO DAILY - FEDBIZOPPS ISSUE OF JULY 29, 2017 FBO #5727
SOLICITATION NOTICE

66 -- Leica TCS SP8 X white laser confocal high speed multi-dimensional imaging equipment items

Notice Date

7/27/2017
 

Notice Type

Presolicitation
 

NAICS

334516 — Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing
 

Contracting Office

Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases/AMOB, 5601 Fishers Lane, 3rd Floor MSC 9822, Bethesda, Maryland, 20892, United States
 

ZIP Code

20892
 

Solicitation Number

NIAID-NOI17-1860704
 

Archive Date

8/6/2017
 

Point of Contact

Bradley C. Engel, Phone: 301-761-6795
 

E-Mail Address

brad.engel@nih.gov
(brad.engel@nih.gov)
 

Small Business Set-Aside

N/A
 

Description

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Division of Intramural Research (DIR), Laboratory of Systems Biology (LSB) intends to negotiate on an other than full and open competition basis with Leica Microsystems Inc., 2345 Waukegan Road, Bannockburn, IL 60015 to procure Leica TCS SP8 X white laser confocal high speed multi-dimensional imaging equipment items. This acquisition will be processed under FAR Part 12 - Acquisition for Commercial Items and will be made pursuant to the authority in FAR Part 13.501(a)(1). Only one award will be made as a result of this solicitation. This will be awarded as a firm fixed price type of contract. The additional Leica Microsystems Inc., equipment will expand NIAID's expand NIAID's imaging capabilities. This expanded capability is required to keep up with the ever increasing research efforts. This expansion will allow for additional laboratory imaging techniques not otherwise possible. System expansion must utilize the same equipment and software to maintain continuity and data integrity between NIAID laboratories. Equipment can only be provided by Leica Microsystems Inc. The statutory authority for this sole source requirement is 41 U.S.C. 253 (c) (1) as implemented by FAR 6.302-1 only one source available, no substitutions possible, and equipment must be compatible with existing equipment. THIS IS NOT A SOLICITATION FOR COMPETITIVE QUOTATIONS. All responsible sources who can provide the same or similar equipment may submit a response that could be considered by email to Brad Engel at brad.engel@nih.gov by the specified date/time of this notice. All information furnished must be in writing and must contain sufficient detail to allow NIAID to determine if it can meet the above unique specifications described herein. All responses received by the closing date of this solicitation will be considered by the Government. A determination not to compete this requirement, based upon responses to this notice, is solely within the discretion of the Government.
 

Web Link

FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/HHS/NIH/AMOB/NIAID-NOI17-1860704/listing.html)
 

Place of Performance

Address: 4 MEMORIAL DRIVE, BETHESDA, Maryland, 20892, United States

Zip Code: 20892
 

Record

SN04601151-W 20170729/170727232719-34a653f670e397abf3ea770970907b56 (fbodaily.com)
 

Source

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