SOLICITATION NOTICE
J -- Intend to Sole Source Maintenance Service Agreement for a Applied Biosystem API4000 LC/MS/MS
- Notice Date
- 5/20/2009
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- Contracting Office
- Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Acquisition Management, RTP Procurement Operations Division, E105-02, Environmental Protection Agency, Ord Service Center/Nheerl, Rtp Procurement Operations Division, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
- ZIP Code
- 27711
- Solicitation Number
- RFQ-RT-09-00157
- Response Due
- 5/11/2009
- Archive Date
- 6/11/2009
- Point of Contact
- Point of Contact, Pamela Smith, Purchasing Agent, Phone (919) 541-0635<br />
- E-Mail Address
-
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
(SMITH.PAMELA@EPAMAIL.EPA.GOV)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- NAICS Code: 811219 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) intends to negotiate a sole source purchase order under Simplified Acquisition Procedures with Applied Biosystems (AB), 850 Lincoln Centre Drive, Foster City, CA 94404 for the acquisition of a 1- year Maintenance Serviceagreement for a Applied Biosystem API 4000 LC/MS/MS. Applied Biosystems is the manufacturer and sole distributor of equipment. The agreement shall include: (1) Guaranteed Priority Response, Service at site within 2 business days; (2) Factory-trained and Certified engineers; (3) Service engineers receive continuous factory training and certification; (4) All labor and Travel Fees included; (5) All labor and travel fees are included for repair and planned maintenance; (6) Two Scheduled Planned Maintenance Visits; (7) Covered Replacement Parts, All parts are certified and guaranteed to optimize instruments performance and reliability, All parts are manufactured by AB or AB#s direct vendors; (8) Priority Technical Assistance Center support; (9) Immediate telephone and email access to senior factory-trained engineer instrument technical support; (10) Priority application technical phone support; (11) Immediate telephone access to application technical support; (12) Smart Monitoring; (13) Remote access capability for collaborative troubleshooting, diagnostics and problem solving with real-time error reporting notifications; (14) System performance monitored 24 hours a day, 365 days a year resulting in maximum uptime. Only AB service engineers have full and exclusive access to instrument diagnostics software and have full and exclusive access to AB's latest technical development, repair procedures, application updates, and planned maintenance procedures. The EPA has identified Applied Biosystems as the only vendor capable of satisfying this requirement. The circumstance permitting "Other than full and open competition" is FAR 6.302 1 only one source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements. The intent of this notice is to determine if any other source(s) exist; and therefore, no solicitation (RFQ) is available. Consequently, any response failing to provide the aforementioned data and instead choosing to merely submit a routine letter requesting a copy of the RFQ will be ignored. The information received in response to this notice will be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether or not to conduct a competitive procurement. Interested parties who can meet the above requirements may submit written qualification statements, fully explaining their capability no later than 10 days after the date of this publication. Submit response to the U.S. EPA, Attn: Pamela E. Smith(MC E105 02), Procurement Operations Division, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711; by fax to (919) 685-3178; or, by email at smith.pamela@epa.gov. No telephone requests will be honored.
- Web Link
-
FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/EPA/OAM/CMD/RFQ-RT-09-00157/listing.html)
- Record
- SN01823326-W 20090522/090521001900-db5519f7886c0a14dd16c6f925765f5c (fbodaily.com)
- Source
-
FedBizOpps Link to This Notice
(may not be valid after Archive Date)
| FSG Index | This Issue's Index | Today's FBO Daily Index Page |