SPECIAL NOTICE
66 -- DNA Purification and Cleanup Reagents In Support of the DoD Bone Marrow Program for Naval Medical Research Center (NMRC)
- Notice Date
- 8/7/2014
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 334516
— Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Navy, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Naval Medical Logistics Command, 693 Neiman Street, FT Detrick, Maryland, 21702-9203, United States
- ZIP Code
- 21702-9203
- Solicitation Number
- N32398DNAREAGENTS
- Archive Date
- 8/23/2014
- Point of Contact
- Amber N. O'Bryan, Phone: 3016198892
- E-Mail Address
-
amber.obryan@med.navy.mil
(amber.obryan@med.navy.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The Naval Medical Logistics Command (NMLC) intends to award a sole source contract under the authority of FAR 6.302-1 to Beckman Coulter Inc., Brea, CA 92821, to provide AMPure and CleanSEQ reagents for The Department of Defense (DoD) Bone Marrow Program's DNA analysis requirements in support of NMRC. The DoD requires reagents that must have no centrifugation or filtration steps to maintain manual or fully automated performance for high throughput which minimizes typing costs without compromising the high quality sequence data results. The reagents must be able to accommodate various fluorescent dye sets and must be optimized for use with electrokinetic injection on capillary electrophoresis systems of 3730 DNA Analyzers which are currently in use by the DoD Bone Marrow Program. These reagents must function in existing Beckman liquid handling robotic systems with existing software and must not require re-certification by the Bone Marrow Program's laboratory or the American Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics HHS' required certification for laboratory procedures. It is critical to maintain the currently certified laboratory process for consistent testing results and ASHI (and HHS) accreditation and maintain the ability to HLA type and register DoD volunteer donors within the DoD and National Marrow Donor Program as potential donors of marrow for clinical transplantation. The total estimated value of this requirement is $349,695.27. Beckman Coulter is the only vendor that sells reagents that meets the requirements identified in the paragraph above. AMPure and CleanSEQ purification systems have been applied to the DoD Bone Marrow Program's HLA typing systems through the 3730 DNA Analyzers for more than 10 years in line with ASHI accreditation standards and there are no other reagents that can be used with these DNA analyzer systems. Additionally, AMPure and CleanSEQ are the only certified reagents by the Marrow Program as per ASHI and HHS accreditation standards. Therefore, because Beckman Coulter is the only manufacturer and distributor of AMPure and CleanSEQ reagents, they represent the only responsible source available to purchase from. This Notice of Intent is not a request for competitive proposals and no solicitation document exists for this requirement. However, parties interested in responding to this notice will need to submit technical data, including cost, sufficient to determine capability. All capability statements received by the closing date of this synopsis will be considered by the Government. A determination by the Government not to compete based on responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information received will be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. All capability statements received by 3:45 PM Eastern Time, 22 August 2014 will be considered by the Government. Capability statements shall be submitted by e-mail ONLY as a Microsoft Word or Adobe PDF attachment to NMLC-Research@med.navy.mil and shall reference "N32398DNAREAGENTS" in the subject line.
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