SOURCES SOUGHT
68 -- Bulk Nitrogen and Carbon Dixoide
- Notice Date
- 5/21/2014
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 325120
— Industrial Gas Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Station Support/Simplified Acquisitions, 31 Center Drive, Room 1B59, Bethesda, Maryland, 20892
- ZIP Code
- 20892
- Solicitation Number
- HHS-NIH-NIDA-SSSA-SS-14-232
- Archive Date
- 6/11/2014
- Point of Contact
- Lauren M. Phelps, Phone: 3015942490
- E-Mail Address
-
lauren.phelps@nih.gov
(lauren.phelps@nih.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Contracting Office Address: Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Station Support Simplified Acquisitions, 31 Center Drive, Room 1B59, Bethesda, MD 20892, UNITED STATES. Introduction: This is a Small Business Sources Sought notice. This is NOT a solicitation for proposals, proposal abstracts, or quotations. The purpose of this notice is to obtain information regarding: (1) the availability and capability of qualified small business sources, (2) whether they are small businesses; HUBZone small businesses, service-disabled, veteran-owned small businesses; 8(a) small businesses; veteran-owned small businesses; woman-owned small businesses; or small disadvantaged businesses; and (3) their size classification relative to the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for the proposed acquisition. Your responses to the information requested will assist the Government in determining the appropriate acquisition method, including whether a set-aside is possible. Purpose and Objectives for the Procurement: The purpose of this potential requirement is acquisition of Medical Grade Liquid Nitrogen, Medical Grade Liquid Carbon Dioxide, and High Pressure Nitrogen and Carbon Dioxide Cylinders and associated tanks for the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS). These bulk gases shall be used to maintain operation of equipment used by the NCATS for biomedical and translational research. Project Requirements: The Contractor must be able to provide the following: Tank Description (Tank Size and Units) Yearly Quantity Medical Grade Liquid Nitrogen (180 Liters) 416 Medical Grade Liquid Nitrogen (230 Liters) 156 Medical Grade Liquid Carbon Dioxide (180 Liters) 208 High Pressure Nitrogen Cylinder (200 Pounds) 16 High Pressure Carbon Dioxide Cylinder (50 Pounds) 52 Please note that, per the table above, the Government requires a total of 780 liquid tanks and 68 gas tanks per year. Gas and tanks shall be provided in accordance with the following: a. The vendor shall manage the inventory on weekly basis (the vendor shall be onsite every Monday to reconcile inventory and coordinate new orders with NCATS personnel) b. The vendor shall make all deliveries, including hooking and unhooking tanks in all required labs c. The vendor shall NOT charge rental charges for tanks regardless of the duration of a tank's stay at the NCATS facilities d. The vendor shall NOT charge a delivery fee for regularly scheduled orders e. The vendor must be able to accommodate tank orders placed up to 24 hours in advance with no additional fees f. All tanks delivered shall have working gauges and shall be certified full The NCATS shall receive full refunds and free tank replacements for all faulty tanks. g. NCATS personnel shall be allowed to inspect all tanks upon delivery h. All gas and tanks must be medical grade Anticipated Period of Performance: The anticipated period of performance is twelve months. Capability Statement: Contractors that believe they possess the ability to provide the required goods and services should submit documentation of their ability to meet each of the project requirements to the Contract Specialist. Contractors must also provide their Company Name, DUNS number, Physical Address, and Point of Contact Information. Interested organizations are required to identify their type of business, applicable North American Industry Classification System Code, and size standards in accordance with the Small Business Administration. The government requests that no proprietary or confidential business data be submitted in a response to this notice. However, responses that indicate the information therein is proprietary will be properly safeguarded for Government use only. Capability statements must include the name and telephone number of a point of contact having authority and knowledge to discuss responses with Government representatives. Capability statements in response to this market survey that do not provide sufficient information for evaluation will be considered non-responsive. When submitting this information, please reference the solicitation notice number. All capability statements sent in response to this Sources Sought Notice must be submitted electronically (via email) to Lauren Phelps, Contract Specialist, at Lauren.Phelps@nih.gov in MS Word format by or before the closing date of this announcement. All responses must be received by the specified due date and time in order to be considered. Note: This notice does not obligate the Government to award a contract or otherwise pay for the information provided in the response. No proprietary, classified, confidential, or sensitive information should be included in your response. The Government reserves the right to use information provided by respondents for any purpose deemed necessary and legally appropriate. Any organization responding to this notice should ensure that its response is complete and sufficiently detailed to allow the Government to determine the organization's qualifications to perform the work. Respondents are advised that the Government is under no obligation to acknowledge receipt of the information received or provide feedback to respondents with respect to any information submitted. After review of the responses received, pre-solicitation and solicitation notices may be published in Federal Business Opportunities. However, responses to this notice will not be considered adequate responses to a solicitation. The solicitation release date is pending. The Government intends to negotiate a fixed-price contract.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: Rockville, Maryland, 20850, United States
- Zip Code: 20850
- Zip Code: 20850
- Record
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