SPECIAL NOTICE
B -- Metabolic Pathway Profiling Services - Sole Source Justification
- Notice Date
- 9/11/2016
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 541990
— All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
- Contracting Office
- Agricultural Research Service - Eastern Business Service Center
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- 819333-2016
- Archive Date
- 9/19/2016
- Point of Contact
- Rene D. Edwards, Phone: 301 504-1744
- E-Mail Address
-
rene.edwards@ars.usda.gov
(rene.edwards@ars.usda.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Performance Work Statement Sole Source Justification THIS IS A NOTICE OF INTENT TO AWARD A SOLE-SOURCE PURCHASE ORDER AND IS NOT A REQUEST FOR COMPETITIVE QUOTES The Animal Biosciences & Biotechnology Laboratory (ABBL) at the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center (BARC), Agricultural Research Services (ARS), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) intends to issue a sole source, fixed price purchase order for pathway metabolic profiling services to the following source: Metabolon PO Box 110407, Research Triangle Park, NC, 27709 in accordance with FAR Part 13.106-1(b)(1)(i) under simplified acquisition procedures. The proposed award is being issued under the authority of FAR 6.302-1 (b)(i), only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements. ABBL requires Metabolon, Inc. located in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina for profiling services due to the nature of analysis and the uniformity of results required. Metabolon provided profiling services for ABBL in FY15 and the pathway profiling now required is a continuation of research analysis. The uniformity of results over time is highly dependent on the nature of the mass spectroscopy platforms and protocols that provide the analysis. Changing any aspects of the analytical platform at this point in the experimental process would, for all intent and purposes, negate the validity of the results since it would be impossible to distinguish metabolic profile changes that were the result of imposed treatment effects from those due to random variation and artifact in the analytical method especially as regards the sensitivity of the method. The associated North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code is- 541990; small business size standard is $15.0 million. The government will consider all responsible sources received by the due date. Written responses must contain sufficient documentation to establish a bona-fide capability to fulfill the requirement. If no written responses are received, a purchase order will be issued without further notice.
- Web Link
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- Place of Performance
- Address: USDA,ARS,ABBL, 10300 Baltimore Ave., BARC-EAST, Beltsville, Maryland, 20705, United States
- Zip Code: 20705
- Zip Code: 20705
- Record
- SN04266139-W 20160913/160911233104-4c557350f961373fda4761603a7de5f0 (fbodaily.com)
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