SOLICITATION NOTICE
65 -- Alliant / Olympus Microscope cameras.
- Notice Date
- 9/9/2019
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 334516
— Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, Clinical Center/Office of Purchasing & Contracts, 6707 Democracy Blvd, Suite 106, MSC 5480, Bethesda, Maryland, 20892-5480
- ZIP Code
- 20892-5480
- Solicitation Number
- 19-016693
- Archive Date
- 10/1/2019
- Point of Contact
- Grace P. Wong-Darko, Phone: 3014961199
- E-Mail Address
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wongdarkogp@nih.gov
(wongdarkogp@nih.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- INTRODUCTION THIS IS A PRE-SOLICITATION NON-COMPETITIVE (NOTICE OF INTENT) SYNOPSIS TO AWARD A CONTRACT OR PURCHASE ORDER WITHOUT PROVIDING FOR FULL OR OPEN COMPETITION (INCLUDING BRAND-NAME). The National Institutes of Health (NIH), Clinical Center (CC), Office of Purchasing and Contracts (OPC) on behalf of the Department of Transfusion Medicine (DTM), Clinical Center (CC) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) intends to negotiate and award a contract without providing for full and open competition (including brand-name) to: Alliant Enterprises, LLC 333 Bridge St. N.W., STE 1125 Mountain View, CA 94043 UNITED STATES NORTH AMERICAN INDUSTRY CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM (NAICS) CODE The intended procurement is classified under NAICS code 334516 with a Size Standard 1000. REGULATORY AUTHORITY The resultant contract will include all applicable provisions and clauses in effect through the Federal Acquisition Circular (FAC) 2005-100, August 22, 2018. This acquisition is conducted under the procedures as prescribed in FAR subpart 13-Simplified Acquisition Procedures at an amount not exceeding the simplified acquisition threshold. STATUTORY AUTHORITY This acquisition is conducted under the authority of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 13-Simplified Acquisition Procedures, Subpart 13.106-1 (b) (1), Soliciting from a single source and is not expected to exceed the simplified acquisition threshold. Contracts awarded using FAR Part 13-Simplified Acquisition Procedures are exempt from the requirements of FAR Part 6-Competition Requirements. GENERAL INFORMATION 1. Title: Alliant / Olympus Microscope cameras. 2. Background Information: The Clinical Center is a clinical research hospital providing medical services for patients participating in human research protocols at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The Clinical Center provides patient facilities, services for clinical investigations, research in related areas, and training programs for residents. The Department of Laboratory Medicine provides laboratory services for the NIH Institutes. The Hematology Service provides a variety of clinical and research testing, Coagulation and Thrombosis consultation, Flow Cytometry, Molecular Diagnostics and Bone Marrow Histopathology services. 3. Purpose or Objective: Microscope cameras is needed to capture digital images for documentation of their diagnoses, demonstrations and conferences for clinicians, teaching fellows/residents, students, other colleagues, publications and research. The setup must be compatible with the Olympus BX41 microscope and Window 10. 4. Delivery: 30 Days A.R.O. CONTRACTOR REQUIREMENTS (SCOPE OF WORK) 1. QTY. 3 of DP74 Color CMOS Camera, Cooled 20.7 MP Pixel-Shift, 60 FPS (Catalog# 7-DP74-CU). 2. QTY. 3 of U-TV0.63XC-1-8; Camera Adapter, 0.63X Lens, C-Mount Thread, Parfocality Adjustment (Catalog# U-V163C28). 3. QTY. 1 of DP74 w/cellSens ENT; DP74 Color CMOS Camera, Cooled 20.8 MP Pixel-Shift, 60 FPS, CELLSENS ENT LICENSE (Catalog# 7-DP74-CSE). 4. QTY. 1 of U-TV0.63XC-1-8; Camera Adapter, 0.63X Lens, C-Mount Thread, Parfocality Adjustment (Catalog# U-V163C28). Delivery: 30 days A.R.O. CONTRACTING WITHOUT PROVIDING FOR FULL OR OPEN COMPETITION (INCLUDING BRAND-NAME) DETERMINATION This system is on site and has been validated for use on CC patients. It would be detrimental to the government to attempt to change systems and quite impossible as these instruments are proprietary and only distributed by Alliant Enterprises LLC. With the continuation of using the same system will also help reduces the risk of a disruption in patient care. The determination by the Government to award a contract without providing for full and open competition is based upon the market research conducted as prescribed in FAR Part 10-Market Research. CLOSING STATEMENT This synopsis is not a request for competitive proposals. However, interested parties may identify their interest and capability to respond to this notice. Responses to this notice shall contain sufficient information to establish the interested parties' bona-fide capabilities for fulfilling the requirement and include a technical proposal, a cost-price proposal, the period of performance, the Dun & Bradstreet Number (DUNS), the Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN), and the certification of business size. All offerors must have an active registration in the System for Award Management (SAM) www.sam.gov. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed contract based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. The information received will normally be consider solely for the purposes of determining whether to proceed on a non-competitive basis or to conduct a competitive procurement. All responses must be received by September 16th 2019, 1:00 PM Eastern time and must reference solicitation number 19-016693. Responses may be submitted electronically to Mrs. Grace Wong-Darko, Contracting Specialist at Grace.Wong-Darko@nih.gov. Fax responses will not be accepted. "All responsible sources may submit a capability statement, proposal, or quotation, which shall be considered by the agency."
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