SOLICITATION NOTICE
J -- Emergency Repair of Viewlux Plate Readers
- Notice Date
- 2/17/2011
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 811219
— Other Electronic and Precision Equipment Repair and Maintenance
- 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-CSB-(HG)-2011-108-DLM
- Archive Date
- 3/9/2011
- Point of Contact
- Dorothy Maxwell, Phone: 301-435-0352
- E-Mail Address
-
maxwelld@mail.nih.gov
(maxwelld@mail.nih.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- THIS IS A NOTICE OF INTENT, NOT A REQUEST FOR A PROPOSAL. A SOLICITATION DOCUMENT WILL NOT BE ISSUED AND PROPOSALS WILL NOT BE REQUESTED. The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) Office of Acquisition (OA) intends to negotiate and award a purchase order on a noncompetitive sole source basis to PerkinElmer Health, 710 Bridgeport Avenue, Shelton, Connecticut 06484-4750 to procure maintenance and repair for a PerkinElmer Viewlux plate readers. The sole source determination is based on the fact that National Institute of Health (NIH) is the nation’s leading medical research agency and the primary Federal agency conducting and supporting making medical discoveries that improve people’s health and save lives. The mission of the NIH Chemical Genomics Center (NCGC) is to apply the tools of small molecule screening and discovery to the development of chemical probe research tools, for use in the study of protein and cell functions, and biological processes relevant to physiology and disease. NCGC optimizes biochemical, cellular and model organism-based assays submitted by the biomedical research community; performs automated high-throughput screening (HTS); and performs chemistry optimization on confirmed hits to produce chemical probes for dissemination to the research community. This requested emergency repair order is required in order to repair one of the four Perkin Elmer Viewlux plate readers that are currently in use by our biology and automation groups. This broken instrument is essential to the ongoing NCGC high throughput screening process and is currently used within with our Kalypsys Robotic system; the instrument is affixed to the rest of the robotic platform, which makes it extremely expensive and disruptive to remove for offsite repair. This broken reader is causing a log jam of planned screening campaigns that have been assigned to our biology group by our Molecular Libraries funders. Any additional down time will seriously affect lab work that has been validated months ago but is in danger of being ruined as these reagents and compounds do not have a unlimited time line for the proper analyzing on our robotic systems and this equipment has been broken for almost 3 months now. The equipment repair is needed immediately to get the systems up and running. These machines are used in conjunction with other high throughput systems that enables NCGC to screen 1536 well plates being analyzed against numerous chemical assays. These ViewLux units are an ultra high throughput microplate imager for high sensitivity and fast measurement of light from fluorescence polarization (FP), fluorescence intensity, time-resolved fluorescence (TRF), luminescence and absorbance assays. Using 1536-well plates and, for example, fluorescence intensity, this equipment can allow throughputs in excess of 200,000 samples per hour under continuous operation. This repair must be done by a licensed PerkinElmer Technician and no other vendors are acceptable. Industry Classification (NAICS) Code is 811219, Other Electronic an Precision Equipment Repair and Maintenance, with size standard of $7.0M. The acquisition is being conducted under FAR Part 13, simplified acquisition procedures, therefore the requirements of FAR Part 6 B Competitive Requirements are not applicable (FAR Part 6.001).and the resultant purchase order will include all applicable provisions and clauses in effect through the Federal Acquisition Circular (FAC) 05-48 (January 31, 2011). This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals. Interested parties may identify their interest and capabilities in response to this synopsis, by February 22, 2011, 7:30 a.m. Eastern Standard Time. The determination by the Government not to compete the proposed contract based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information received will normally be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct future competitive procurement. Inquires to this announcement, referencing synopsis number NHLBI-CSB-(HG)-2011-108-DLM, may be submitted to the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Office of Acquisition, COAC Services Branch, 6701 Rockledge Drive, Suite 6149, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-7902, Attention: Dorothy Maxwell. Response may be submitted electronically to maxwelld@mail.nih.gov. Faxes will not be accepted. Responses will only be accepted if dated and signed by an authorized company representative.
- Web Link
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- Place of Performance
- Address: NIH, Rockville, Maryland, 20850, United States
- Zip Code: 20850
- Zip Code: 20850
- Record
- SN02382957-W 20110219/110217234813-16930dd5ff047b50084bf3dfa9c8d78a (fbodaily.com)
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