SPECIAL NOTICE
66 -- This is a notice of intent to award a Firm-Fixed-Price Purchase Order for 220 specialized screening and confirmatory pouches to BioFire Diagnostics, Inc.
- Notice Date
- 7/29/2013
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 334516
— Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- ACC-APG - Natick (SPS), ATTN: AMSRD-ACC-N, Natick Contracting Division (R and BaseOPS), Building 1, Kansas Street, Natick, MA 01760-5011
- ZIP Code
- 01760-5011
- Solicitation Number
- W911QY13P0369
- Archive Date
- 10/27/2013
- Point of Contact
- Jennifer, 301-619-8401
- E-Mail Address
-
ACC-APG - Natick (SPS)
(jennifer.s.bassett.civ@mail.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The U.S. Army Contracting Command - Aberdeen Proving Ground (ACC-APG), Aberdeen Proving Ground, Natick Contracting Division intends to award a Firm Fixed Price sole source purchase order on behalf of the Critical Reagents Program (CRP) to BioFire Diagnostics, Inc. located at 390 Wakara Way, Salt Lake City, UT 84108 under the authority as prescribed in FAR 13.106-1(b)(1), only one source reasonably available that will satisfy agency requirements. This requirement is for the purchase of 220 screening and confirmatory panels that will be used exclusively in a hand-portable, battery operated real-time PCR system for Biothreat detection. BioFire Diagnostics, Inc. is the owner of the intellectual property (IP) and sole producer of these specialized screening and confirmatory pouches containing freeze-dried real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay reagents compatible for use on the BioFire Diagnostics Reagent instruments. Due to the exclusive compatibility of these custom designed screening and confirmatory pouches to these instruments, only the contractor, BioFire Diagnostics, Inc., has access to the intellectual property in freeze-dried form and function and is able to address this requirement. This is a notice of intent to issue this solicitation on a sole source basis. This notice of intent is not a request for quotations (RFQ). Any other firms desiring consideration must fully identify their interest and capability to provide these items no later than August 12, 2013 to the individual listed below. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed contract based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Interested persons may identify their interest in writing, to the Government point of contact. Responses to this notice must be received no later than 3:00pm Eastern Standard Time, August 12, 2013. The point of contact for this action is Ms. Jennifer Bassett, jennifer.s.bassett.civ@mail.mil No telephone requests will be honored.
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- Record
- SN03130243-W 20130731/130729234755-2705bf37bd65fefa7c51a2cd7304d75d (fbodaily.com)
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