SOURCES SOUGHT
66 -- Body Mass Composition Analyzer - Attachment 1 - Statement of Work
- Notice Date
- 6/12/2015
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 334519
— Other Measuring and Controlling Device Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Office of Acquisitions, Office of Management, 530 Davis Drive, Durham, North Carolina, 27713, United States
- ZIP Code
- 27713
- Solicitation Number
- NIHES2015054
- Archive Date
- 6/20/2015
- Point of Contact
- Onyenauché Washington, Phone: (919) 541-0423
- E-Mail Address
-
uche.washington@nih.gov
(uche.washington@nih.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Attachment 1 - Statement of Work 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 America 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. BACKGROUND: The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), located in the Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, is one of the 27 Institutes and Centers composing the National Institutes of Health. The NIEHS is home to the National Toxicology Program (NTP), a Health & Human Services (HHS) interagency program dedicated to testing and evaluating substances in our environment. The National Toxicology Program Laboratory (NTPL) exists within the Division of the NTP to provide state-of-the-art laboratory research support that complements and extends the NTP's scientific capabilities and contributes to the identification and understanding of potential health related issues related to environmental/chemical exposures. The goals of the NTPL are (1) To provide leadership and on-site laboratory support to NTP project teams for exploratory, ancillary, and mechanistic studies on agents and issues critical to NTP; (2) To develop and apply new and novel approaches for understanding the toxicological and biological effects of agents and specific research areas critical to NTP; and (3) To enhance the NTP's ability to respond with a strong scientific approach to public health challenges in a timely manner. PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVES: The NTPL will be testing the predictive nature of the Tox21 cell-based assay data on "obesity". In this specific situation, we are using signal transduction data from Tox21 and testing it both in cell cultures models and, once the list of potential "obesogens" is narrowed down, in animals - specifically rats, as they are the chosen model system typically tested in the NTP guideline studies. The literature shows that body weight is not an accurate indicator of obesity in people or animals and that weighing fat depots has a high degree of technical error and variability associated with it. Therefore, we require an instrument that will allow us to accurately determine the body mass composition, weight, length, and fat percentage in an animal system relevant to the test species used in NTP guideline studies. See Attachment 1, Statement of Work for details. ANTICIPATED DELIVERY PERIOD: Delivery and Installation are required no later than 15 July 2015. NORTH AMERICAN INDUSTRY CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM (NAICS) CODE: The intended procurement will be classified under the NAICS code 334519, "Other Measuring and Controlling Device Manufacturing" with a size standard of 500 Employees. ANTICIPATED CONTRACT TYPE: The anticipated contract type will be firm fixed price contract type. DELIVERY LOCATION: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Building 101, 111 T.W. Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709 CAPABILITY STATEMENT/INFORMATION SOUGHT: Capability statements should include the following information: (1) Company name and address; (2) Clear and convincing documentation of their ability to provide the item specified in this notice; (3) Examples of prior completed Government contracts, references, and other related information; respondents' DUNS number, organization name, address, point of contact, size and type of business (e.g., 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); (4) Point of contact, including telephone number and email address for representative from interested business; (5) Do you have a GSA vehicle that could be utilized for this item? If yes, please provide the contract number and point of contact information CONFIDENTIALITY: No proprietary, classified, confidential, or sensitive information should be included in your response. The Government reserves the right to use any non-proprietary technical information in any resultant solicitation(s). DISCLAIMER AND IMPORTANT NOTES: This notice does not obligate the Government to award a contract or otherwise pay for the information provided in 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 a review of the responses received, a pre-solicitation synopsis and solicitation may be published in Federal Business Opportunities. However, responses to this notice will not be considered adequate responses to a solicitation. Interested parties may identify their interest and capability to respond to the requirement. The Government shall consider all responses received within fifteen days of this posting. A determination not to compete this requirement, based upon responses to this notice, is solely within the discretion of the Government. Written responses to this synopsis shall contain sufficient documentation to establish their capability to fulfill this requirement. NIEHS will not be responsible for any costs incurred by interested parties in responding to this notice. Please email, with the sources sought notice number in the subject line to the Contracting Officer listed below.
- Web Link
-
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- Place of Performance
- Address: See Delivery Address Above., Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, 27709, United States
- Zip Code: 27709
- Zip Code: 27709
- Record
- SN03762855-W 20150614/150612235111-02c006340236a372cb432e6c276522d0 (fbodaily.com)
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