SOLICITATION NOTICE
J -- Maintenance, repair and rebuilding of equipment
- Notice Date
- 12/17/2002
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases/AMOB, 10401 Fernwood Drive MSC 4811 Room 2NE70-A, Bethesda, MD, 20817
- ZIP Code
- 20817
- Solicitation Number
- RFQ3005
- Archive Date
- 1/17/2003
- Point of Contact
- Linda Taylor, Purchasing Agent, Phone 301-402-6089, Fax 301-480-3695, - Carolyn Sentz, Contracting Officer, Phone 301-402-6107, Fax 301-480-3695,
- E-Mail Address
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ltaylor@niaid.nih.gov, csentz@niaid.nih.gov
- Description
- 17. This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the Format in Subpart 12.6, as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; quotes are being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued. This procurement is being issued as a Request For Quote (RFQ). Submit offers on RFQ3005 . The RFQ and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 01-10. This acquisition will be processed under Simplified Acquisition Procedures (SAP) and is a small business set-side. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this acquisition is 811219 and the Small Business Size Standard is 6. 0 million. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) intends to procure a maintenance service contract on the Protein X-ray Crystallographic and the SGI Workstations Software. The protein X-ray crystallography requires high-end computers with sophisticated graphics capabilities. There is approximately 12 Silicon Graphics Workstations that are under unix operating systems. These computers are used for X-ray diffraction data acquisition, processing and structure modeling. No PC and MAC computers can be used as substitutes in current stage. It is important to maintain and upgrade these computers on a routine basis. The objective is to minimize the down time of our computing facility for structure determination projects. Requirements for the contractor. The contractor shall demonstrate expertise in the following area: 1) have professional experiences in Unix-based workstation system management, such as Silicon Graphics Octane and O2 workstations; 2) capable of using Fortran and C programming languages; 3) have knowledge of the X-ray crystallographic related software packages such as O, CNS, SHELX, X-PLOR, CCP4, SHARP, RIBBONS, and MOLSCRIPT. 4) perform routine scheduled tasks, include data backups, system upgrades and troubleshooting on weekdays after 5PM and on weekends or federal holidays in order to minimize disruption to the daily scientific usage of the computers. Access to the laboratory computers and other facilities will be provided during normal working hours only upon prior approval of the NIH staff. Evaulation Criteria: 1) The contractor shall provide basic system management for the following computer systems: Approximately, twelve Silicon Graphics Octane and 02 workstation?s, PC and Mac computers; 2) The constractor shall load, install, upgrade and maintain the operating system software and network related function of these computers; 3) The contractor shall install and maintain the following software packages: O (from the University of Upsala, Alwyn Jones), CHAIN (from Baylor College of Medicine), CCP4, RIBBONS, MOLSCRIPT, CNS, SHELX, SHARP, SOLVE, HKL2000, SnB, XTA;VOEW, CRYSTALCLEAR and other crystallopgraphic related software packages; 4) The contractor shall conduct tape backups on a monthly basis and incremental backups on a weekly basis; 5) The contractor shall provide emergency service to computer systems an agree to respond to such calls within 36 hours; 6) The contactor shall inform the Section Chief immediately of a real apparent conflict of interest in performing the duties of this contract, 7) The contactor shall immediately notify the Section Chief of any unexpected problems or delays that may affect the performance of this contract in a timely manner, 8) The contractor shall have sufficient knowledge of these protein crystallographic software to be able to conduct test run and troubleshooting, and 9) The contractor shall perform 10 hours of work each week. FAR 52.212-1 Instructions to Offerors - Commercial Items; Offerors must include with their offer a completed copy of the provision FAR 52.212.3, Offeror Representations and Certifications ? Commercial Items; FAR 52.212-2 Evaluation Commercial Items; FAR 52.212-4 Contractor Terms ; Conditions of Commercial Items; FAR 52.212-5 Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statutes of Executive Orders Commercial Items and FAR 52.22-48 Exemption from Application of Service Contract Act. The Government will award a fixed price purchase order to the responsible contractor. Period of Performance: January 7, 2004 through January 06, 2004. Offers must be submitted no later than 5:00 P.M. Eastern Standard Time (EST), January 02, 2003, to Linda Taylor. Copies of the aforementioned clauses are available upon request by telephone to Linda Taylor at 301-402-2282. For delivery through the Postal Service, the address is NIH/NIAID/AMOB, 10401 Fernwood Drive, MSC/4812, Suite 2NE70, Bethesda, Maryland 20817-4812. Electronic submissions will not be accepted. Request for information concerning this requirement is to be addressed to Linda Taylor at the address mention. Collect calls will not be accepted. All responsible sources may submit an offer that will be considered by this agency.
- Place of Performance
- Address: National Institute of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
- Zip Code: 20852
- Country: USA
- Zip Code: 20852
- Record
- SN00225193-W 20021219/021217213501 (fbodaily.com)
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