SOLICITATION NOTICE
J -- Laboratory Maintenance Service
- Notice Date
- 10/13/2016
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 811310
— Commercial and Industrial Machinery and Equipment (except Automotive and Electronic) Repair and Maintenance
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases/AMOB, 5601 Fishers Lane, 3rd Floor MSC 9822, Bethesda, Maryland, 20892, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20892
- Solicitation Number
- NIAID-NOI-17-1817927
- Archive Date
- 11/8/2016
- Point of Contact
- Akilah Bullock, Phone: 3017617500
- E-Mail Address
-
akilah.bullock@nih.gov
(akilah.bullock@nih.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in support of the Vaccine Research Center (VRC) intends to negotiate on an other than full and open competition basis with Illumina Inc., 5200 Illumina Way, San Diego, CA 92122 to procure maintenance services for the Illumina's high throughput sequencing instrumentation in the laboratory. This acquisition will be processed under FAR Part 12 - Acquisition for Commercial Items and will be made pursuant to the authority in FAR Part 13.501(a)(1). Optimal instrumentation function is integral to the completion of the many projects dependent on this instrumentation. To ensure this Illumina equipment is operational and will support the critical research in the laboratory a maintenance service is required. Illumina is the manufacturer and the sole source, vendor does not have resellers. This manufacturer does not distribute parts through any other vendors and the only way to obtain these parts is through a maintenance contract. In addition to the parts, this system requires periodic software updates and fixes, which can only be obtained through Illumina maintenance contract. This is not a request for quote. Offerors who can provide this particular service may submit a statement of capabilities with past performance information. A determination not to compete this requirement, based upon responses to this notice, is solely within the discretion of the Government. A firm fixed price award will be made in accordance with the statutory authority for this sole source requirement 41 U.S.C. 253 (c) (1) as implemented by FAR 6.302-1 only one source available, no substitutions possible. Offers must be submitted no later than 5:00 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, Monday, October 24, 2016 to akilah.bullock@nih.gov.
- Web Link
-
FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/HHS/NIH/AMOB/NIAID-NOI-17-1817927/listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Address: Vaccine Research Center, 40 Convent Drive, Room 3615B, Bethesda, Maryland, 20814, United States
- Zip Code: 20814
- Zip Code: 20814
- Record
- SN04303869-W 20161015/161013234406-89c369d7e1403861b56a24e495fcc473 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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