SOLICITATION NOTICE
39 -- Automated Handling System in a -20°C Freezer Environment
- Notice Date
- 6/29/2010
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 423830
— Industrial Machinery and Equipment Merchant Wholesalers
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, Office of Acquisitions, 6120 Executive Blvd., EPS Suite 600, Rockville, Maryland, 20852
- ZIP Code
- 20852
- Solicitation Number
- NCI-100073-TG
- Archive Date
- 7/28/2010
- Point of Contact
- Terry Galloway, Phone: 301-402-4509, Caren N Rasmussen, Phone: (301) 402-4509
- E-Mail Address
-
gallowaytl@mail.nih.gov, cr214i@nih.gov
(gallowaytl@mail.nih.gov, cr214i@nih.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Contracting Office Address Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, Office of Acquisitions, 6120 Executive Boulevard, EPS Suite 600, Room 6068, Rockville, MD 20852, UNITED STATES. Description The National Cancer Institute (NCI), Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics (DCEG) plans to procure an automated handling system for the triage, imaging, re-labeling and re-arraying of frozen biological samples in a -20°C freezer environment. This acquisition will be conducted under the procedures for acquiring commercial items authorized in FAR Part 12 and under the authority to use simplified procedures for commercial requirements as provided in FAR 13.5. The North American Industry Classification System code is 423830 and the business size standard is 100 employees. This is a 100% small business set-aside. Only one award will be made as a result of this solicitation. This will be awarded as a firm fixed price type contract. Delivery to be within 310 days after award. The Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics (DCEG) stores approximately 12 million biospecimens collected in support of approximately 500 studies that have undertaken to understand the etiology of cancer. Over time, study specimens have been stored in a variety of locations in formats that are independent of material type, causing high labor rates when specimens are retrieved for testing. In addition, specimens collected longer than five to ten years ago may not have printed barcode labels. The contractor shall automate the process of ensuring that specimen containers are barcoded and are located together with other specimens from the same study and of the same material type. This process must be performed at temperatures that allow the specimens to remain in a frozen state throughout the duration of this handling and reorganization. This process will allow the repository to standardize the labeling scheme of samples that have been collected over several decades to a single format, array samples to a new physical location that maximizes available space, maximize relative sample locations to allow for greater efficiency in the manual pulling of samples for a study, update and correct the NCI's tracking database and the physical characteristics of the destination boxes to allow for automated specimen retrieval at a later date. Potential offerors may request a copy of the solicitation from Terry Galloway, Contract Specialist, via electronic mail at terry.galloway@nih.gov or fax (301) 402-4513. Interested parties shall include the name of the company; complete mailing address; DUNS number; and point of contact including name, email, phone and fax number. All questions shall be in writing and may be addressed to the aforementioned individual noted above. Estimated issued date of the solicitation is July 21, 2010 with an estimated due date of July 28, 2010. No collect calls will be accepted. In order to receive an award, contractors must be registered and have valid certification in the Central Contractor Registration (CCR) and the Online Representations and Certifications Applications (ORCA). Reference: RFQ-NCI-100073-TG on all correspondence.
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- SN02191858-W 20100701/100629235335-73590323c30f928ec6376605d2127942 (fbodaily.com)
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