SOURCES SOUGHT
65 -- MESO Quickplex SQ 120
- Notice Date
- 7/10/2017
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 333913
— Measuring and Dispensing Pump Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, Clinical Center/Office of Purchasing & Contracts, 6707 Democracy Blvd, Suite 106, MSC 5480, Bethesda, Maryland, 20892-5480
- ZIP Code
- 20892-5480
- Solicitation Number
- NIH-CC-OPC-SS-17-012353
- Archive Date
- 9/30/2017
- Point of Contact
- India A. Payne, Phone: 301-496-4848
- E-Mail Address
-
ipayne@nih.gov
(ipayne@nih.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- 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 there are small businesses, HUBZONE small businesses, service disabled veteran-owned small businesses or (8a) small businesses, veteran- owned small business, woman-owned small businesses or small disadvantaged businesses veteran owned small businesses; woman owned 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 response to the information requested will assist the Government in determining the appropriate acquisition method, including whether a set-aside is possible. An organization that is not considered a small business under the applicable code should not submit a response to this notice. Background Information The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the nation's foremost federally funded biomedical research institution. It is comprised of twenty-seven Institutes, Centers and Divisions. The Warren G. Magnuson Clinical Center is the on-site 267-bed hospital for the NIH campus comprised of clinical, laboratory and administrative staff who support the Institutes as they conduct clinical research working with inpatients and outpatients participating in research studies at the NIH. The Department of Critical Care Medicine Department (CCMD)) provides Clinical Investigation in support for patients enrolled in the experimental protocols of several Institutes. Purpose The Department of Per-Operative Medicine is requesting to purchase the MESO QuickPlex® SQ 120 laboratory analytical instruments are manufactured and sold solely by Meso Scale Discovery (MSD), a division of Meso Scale Diagnostics, LLC of Gaithersburg, MD. The Imagers are compatible only with microwell plates and immunoassay kits sold by MSD® and vice versa. MSD utilizes electrochemiluminescence to detect binding events on patterned arrays. There are no other technologies that enable multiplexed measurement using electrochemiluminescence for detection. And there are no other suppliers that provide an electrochemiluminescence detection system that is not reliant on beads or flow cells. The MSD platform is unique in its method for detection as outlined below. Electrochemiluminescence (ECL) Detection - MSD's ECL detection utilizes proprietary SULFO-TAG labels that emit light upon electrochemical stimulation initiated at the electrode surfaces of MULTI-ARRAY® and MULTI-SPOT® microplates through biomolecular interactions between the analyte and labeled reporter at the surface. The following item needed: CATALOG# A10AA-0-1EA- MESO QUICKPLEX SQ MSD SERVICE ENGINEER WILL INSTALL EQUIPMENT ONE YEAR WARRANTY Location: The Equipment delivery location - National Institutes of Health, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bldg 10,Room B1B50 Bethesda, MD 20892. Capability Statement is to include: Information regarding respondents; (a) staff expertise, including their availability, experience and informal and other training; (b) current in-house capability to perform the work; (c) prior completed projects of similar nature; (d) corporate experience and management capability; and (e) examples of prior completed Government contracts; references, and other related information: • Respondents, DUNS number, organization name, address, point of contract, and size and type of business (e.g.8(a), HUBZone, etc) pursuant to the applicable NAICS code; • Respondents; technical and administrative points of contract including names, titles addresses, telephone and fax numbers and email addresses; • Respondents must respond to this notice by July 21, 2017 DISCLAIMER AND IMPORTANT NOTICES: 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 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, a pre-solicitation synopsis and solicitation maybe published in Federal Business Opportunities. However, responses to this notice will not be considered adequate responses to a future solicitation.
- Web Link
-
FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/HHS/NIH/CCOPC/NIH-CC-OPC-SS-17-012353/listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Address: National Institutes of Health, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesa, Maryland, 20892, United States
- Zip Code: 20892
- Zip Code: 20892
- Record
- SN04572763-W 20170712/170710235221-310af0f999f05e270cc6173ec852629a (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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