SPECIAL NOTICE
70 -- Service Contract - Preventative maintenance services for the Hitachi scanning electron microscope at 5RP
- Notice Date
- 2/14/2018
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 334516
— Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Consumer Product Safety Commission, Division of Procurement Services, Division of Procurement Services, 4330 East West Highway, Room 517, Bethesda, Maryland, 20814-4408
- ZIP Code
- 20814-4408
- Solicitation Number
- 61320618Q0020
- Archive Date
- 3/11/2018
- Point of Contact
- Llakim M. Dubroff,
- E-Mail Address
-
ldubroff@cpsc.gov
(ldubroff@cpsc.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Intent to Award a Sole Source Contract The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) intends to award a sole source contract to Hitachi High Technologies America, Inc., 1375 N. 28th Avenue, P.O. Box 612208 Dallas, TX 75261-2208, for a service agreement for a Hitachi S-3400N Type II Variable Pressure Scanning Electron Microscope. The service contract provides a guaranteed response time from service call placed to service technician-on site within two (2) business days and will include the existing SEM accessories Environment Secondary Electron Detector (ESED) and CHS05 Chambercope. All SEM components, except consumables and the Oxford Instruments EDS system, will be covered. Additionally, basic SEM operator training will be available for new users and occasional users for operation of the instrument with confidence and understanding of how to obtain the most representative image. Maintaining the Hiachi S-3400N-II VP-SEM will enable CPSC to accurately obtain information and understand the relationship between consumer product performance and consumer safety. The Government believes that only Hitachi High Technologies America, Inc. is capable of providing this service. Under the authority of FAR 6.302-1, only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy the agency requirements. This notice is not a request for competitive quotes; however any firm that believes it can supply these services may give written notification within ten (10) days of the issuance of this notice to the contract specialist via e-mail at ldubroff@cpsc.gov, by 12:00 pm Eastern February 24, 2018. Supporting evidence must be furnished in sufficient detail to the above listed e-mail address, Attn: Llakim Dubroff, contract specialist. No phone calls will be accepted. Responses received will be evaluated, however a determination by the Government not to compete the proposed procurement based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. If no responses are received, CPSC will proceed with negotiating a sole source award to Hitachi High Technologies America, Inc.
- Web Link
-
FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/CPSC/DA/DPS/61320618Q0020/listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Address: CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION, DIRECTORATE FOR LABORATORY SCIENCES, 5 Research Place, Rockville, Maryland, 20850, United States
- Zip Code: 20850
- Zip Code: 20850
- Record
- SN04823931-W 20180216/180214232137-06bc9038f90459bec27c1dc026729dcc (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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