SPECIAL NOTICE
66 -- Notice of Intent
- Notice Date
- 7/11/2014
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 334516
— Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Procurement Section, 935 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, District of Columbia, 20535, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20535
- Solicitation Number
- PR-0010695
- Archive Date
- 7/30/2014
- Point of Contact
- Jerry D. Varnell, Phone: 7036327500
- E-Mail Address
-
jerry.varnell@ic.fbi.gov
(jerry.varnell@ic.fbi.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- PLEASE READ THIS NOTICE CAREFULLY AS IT CONSTITUTES THE ONLY NOTICE THAT WILL BE PUBLISHED. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) intends to negotiate a one-time sole source contract with TA Instruments, 159 Lukens Drive, New Castle, DE 19720-2765. The Government intends to negotiate with only one source under the authority of FAR 6.302-1. This notice will be distributed solely through the General Services Administration's Federal Business Opportunities (FBO) Website (www.fedbizopps.gov). Interested parties are responsible for monitoring the FBO site to ensure they have the most up-to-date information about this acquisition. The North American Classification System Code is 334516, Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing; the size standard is 500 employees. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) intends to award a non-competitive, sole source contract to TA Instruments, 159 Lukens Drive, New Castle, DE 19720-2765 for a Discovery Mass Spectrometer. Services are being procured under FAR 13.5, Simplified Acquisition Procedures. The FBI is often faced with questions from the law enforcement and intelligence communities regarding the chemical decomposition products of improvised explosive materials as they lose mass under heating. An accurate and extremely efficient method of directly determining these products is to utilize a mass spectrometer connected to a thermogravimetric analyzer (TGA). The FBI needs the ability to directly measure the chemical decomposition products of explosive mixtures to analyze their potential hazard effects while in storage and during decomposition. TA Instruments Discovery Mass Spectrometer would provide the FBI with a standard, dedicated mass spectrometer that would attach to the FBI owned TA Instruments Q50 TGA to accomplish the task of providing an accurate determination of the chemical decomposition products and stability of an improvised explosive. This will have a direct impact for the FBI on the understanding of the hazards of particular explosives. TA Instruments is the only company that provides the required mass spectrometer that is specifically designed to seamlessly interface with the FBI owned TA Instruments Q50 TGA's. TA Instruments is the sole manufactured and provider of the Discovery Mass Spectrometer that is specifically designed to seamlessly interface with the FBI owned TA Instruments Q50 TGA and is the only mass spectrometer that will meet the requirements of the FBI. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive quotations; however, interested parties may identify their interests and capability to respond to this requirement to this office by 08:00 am, EST, July 15, 2014, by email to the attention of Jerry Varnell, Contract Specialist, at Jerry.Varnell@ic.fbi.gov. Information received will be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether or not to conduct a competitive procurement. Telephone requests will not be considered. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed contract based upon response to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Vendors must be registered in SAM, effective July 29, 2012 to receive government contracts. The FBI uses a financial system that has a direct interface with SAM. Please ensure that your company's SAM information is updated and accurate. This includes TIN, EFT, DUNS, addresses and contact information. The EFT banking information on file in SAM will be what the FBI uses to process payment to your organization.
- Web Link
-
FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/DOJ/FBI/PPMS1/PR-0010695/listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Address: 10577 W. Centennial Road, STE 100, Littleton, Colorado, 80127-4220, United States
- Zip Code: 80127-4220
- Zip Code: 80127-4220
- Record
- SN03423106-W 20140713/140712022933-01c4fcd0070c1496b71a086098d9b93f (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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