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FBO DAILY - FEDBIZOPPS ISSUE OF FEBRUARY 08, 2015 FBO #4824
SOURCES SOUGHT

68 -- Small Molecules for NCATS Pharmacologically Active Chemical Toolbox - Required Small Molecules

Notice Date

2/6/2015
 

Notice Type

Sources Sought
 

NAICS

325199 — All Other Basic Organic Chemical 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-SBSS-15-127
 

Archive Date

3/3/2015
 

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

Required Small Molecules List 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 five (5) milligrams (mg) of eight hundred sixty-one (861) medically relevant, novel small molecules. The National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) Division of Preclinical Innovation (DPI) will include these molecules in the NCATS Pharmacologically Active Chemical Toolbox (NPACT) small molecule collection. NPACT aims to broadly cover all biological mechanisms known in literature or patents and provides information access for NCATS investigators to accelerate their research. 5mg of 861 particular molecules are required at this time and high purity of molecules is imperative Project Requirements: The specific requirements are as follows: 1. The Contractor must be able to provide the NCATS DPI with 5 mg each of at least 95% of the molecules listed in the attached Excel document titled "Required Small Molecules List." 2. Each molecule provided must be guaranteed to be 80% pure or better. 3. PLEASE NOTE: Molecules shall be provided to the NCATS in barcoded vials that shall be provided to the successful Contractor by the NCATS at time of award. 4. In addition to the molecules themselves, the Contractor must be able to provide the following electronic information for each required molecule: chemical structure, compound name, molecular weight, simplified molecular-input line-entry system (SMILES) or equivalent chemical structure information, accurate weight of amount of compound shipped. This information shall be provided via email referencing individual compound vial barcodes. 5. The contractor must provide for shipping and handling to send small molecules in the provided vials to the NCATS. Anticipated Period of Performance: Compounds and associated information must be delivered within two (2) months following Contractor receipt of the barcoded vials provided by NCATS. Capability Statement: Contractors that believe they possess the ability to provide the required product should submit documentation of their ability to meet each of the project requirements to the Contract Specialist. Contractors must 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 purchase order.
 

Web Link

FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/HHS/NIH/NIDA-2/HHS-NIH-NIDA-SSSA-SBSS-15-127/listing.html)
 

Place of Performance

Address: Rockville, Maryland, 20850, United States

Zip Code: 20850
 

Record

SN03636303-W 20150208/150206235434-894e230ca8344c913cd5c014eb5f5bf5 (fbodaily.com)
 

Source

FedBizOpps Link to This Notice
(may not be valid after Archive Date)

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