SOLICITATION NOTICE
J -- Preventive Maintenance and Repair
- Notice Date
- 9/21/2010
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 334516
— Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Rockledge Dr. Bethesda, MD, Office of Acquisitions, 6701 Rockledge Dr RKL2/6100 MSC 7902, Bethesda, Maryland, 20892-7902
- ZIP Code
- 20892-7902
- Solicitation Number
- NHLBI-PB-(EB)-2010-336-KCC
- Archive Date
- 10/8/2010
- Point of Contact
- Kenya Crawford, Phone: 3014350358
- E-Mail Address
-
crawfordke@nhlbi.nih.gov
(crawfordke@nhlbi.nih.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- THIS IS A NOTICE OF INTENT, NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS. A SOLICITATION DOCUMENT WILL NOT BE ISSUED AND PROPOSALS WILL NOT BE REQUESTED. It is the intent of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) on behalf of the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) to negotiate/award a purchase order on a noncompetitive sole source basis to FEI Company, 5350 NE Dawson Creek Drive, Hillsboro, OR 97124 for a Service Agreement. The reference number is NHLBI-PB-(EB)-2010-336-KCC. The equipment to be maintained is as follows: (1) Tecani F30 Stem Transmission Electron Microscope and (2) GATAN 894 Ultrascan. The services to be provided include: unscheduled maintenance calls within 48 hours of being notified of the need for repair by the Government. Telephone Support: The contractor shall provide telephone support for repair maintenance of the equipment during NIH working hours M-F, (8:00am - 5:00pm), excluding federal holidays. Telephone support shall include response to questions about practices, application use and service issues that could be diagnosed and resolved with technical assistance over the telephone. Replacement Parts and Components: The contractor shall ship new parts within twenty-four (24) hours after identifying the need for a replacement part for the equipment, subject to availability. The contractor may supply reconditioned parts that meet the manufacturer's specification, at the option of the Government. Service Agreement: Includes labor, travel, living expenses and parts coverage (including system software and/or software upgrades applicable to customer's current configuration). Coverage includes all parts of the equipment unless specifically excluded under hours (8:00 am - 5:00 pm), with a targeted response time of forty-eight (48) hours. Requesting Service: Vendor shall supply a telephone number to their customer service center for use in requesting contractor service or advice regarding equipment. The sole source determination is based on the fact that the service engineers from FEI Company are the only personnel who are knowledgeable about the Tecani TF30 Transmission Electron Microscope, capable of diagnosing and repairing problems. Only FEI service engineers have access to factory parts that are needed for repair problems. These engineers are the only engineers capable of performing the difficult task of installing field-emission tips that need replacement periodically. This is a challenging operation, which requires extreme care and extensive experience. The operation of the microscope depends critically on the quality of this procedure. Again, this level of performance on these projects will only be possible to achieve if FEI engineers service the instrument. The FEI Tecani TF30 Transmission Electron Microscope is critical to perform the mission of the Supramolecular Structure and Function Section in NIBIB’s Laboratory of Cellular Imaging and Macromolecular Biophysics. The entire research group is dependent on the top-level performance of this microscope. This acquisition is being conducted under FAR Part 13, Simplified Acquisition Procedures, and is exempt from the requirements of FAR Part 6, Competition Requirements. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code is 334516 and the business size standard is 500 employees. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals. The determination by the Government not to compete the proposed purchase order based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Comments to this announcement, referencing synopsis number NHLBI-PB-(EB)-2010-336-KCC may be submitted by mail to the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Office of Acquisitions, Procurement Branch, 6701 Rockledge Drive, Suite 6148, Bethesda, MD 20892-7902, Attention: Kenya Crawford, or by email to crawfordke@nhlbi.nih.gov This action is under the authority of 41.U.S.C.253(c)(1), as set forth in FAR 13.106(b)(2), and HHSAR 306-302-1. Interested parties responding to this announcement need to do so by 8:00am Eastern Standard Time on September 23, 2010.
- Web Link
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FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/HHS/NIH/NHLBI/NHLBI-PB-(EB)-2010-336-KCC/listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Address: NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, 20892, United States
- Zip Code: 20892
- Zip Code: 20892
- Record
- SN02291337-W 20100923/100921235853-4ef80b6671cea1364fb374ff89f534f5 (fbodaily.com)
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