SOLICITATION NOTICE
70 -- : National Centers for Environmental Health – Chemical Structure Drawing Software – ChemOffice Ultra Version 15.1
- Notice Date
- 8/4/2017
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 334516
— Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Procurement and Grants Office (Atlanta), 2920 Brandywine Road, Room 3000, Atlanta, Georgia, 30341-4146
- ZIP Code
- 30341-4146
- Solicitation Number
- 2017-Q-67342
- Archive Date
- 9/2/2017
- Point of Contact
- Sherrie A. Blackmon, Phone: 7704882925
- E-Mail Address
-
kuj1@cdc.gov
(kuj1@cdc.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Centers for Environmental Health hereby submits a notice of intent to award a sole source, firm fixed price contract to Perkin Elmer Informatics, Inc. 940 Winter Street, Waltham, MA 02451. Specifically, the ChemDraw for Windows 15.1 (P/N NF01026) and the Upgrade to ChemDraw for Windows (P/N INF01648). To the government's knowledge, Perkin Elmer Infomatics is the only company that is able to provide the specifc type of software needed for chemical structure drawing required for drafting posters, presentations and manuscripts with chemical structures. The specifed software can elucidate chemical structures frome names (Name to Structure feature) and vice versa; it provides access to biopolymer tools, BioDraw features and access to the chemical databases. No known vendors offer the highly specialisted software capable of perfoming the specified features of the ChemOffice software. The anticipated delivery date is 2-3 months after contract award. This sole source contracting action is conducted pursuant to the authority under 10 U.S.C. 2304(c)(1), as set forth in Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 6.302-1 - only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements. North American Classification System Code (NAICS) is 334516 with a standard business size of 1000 employees. Responses to this notice must demonstrate clear and convincing evidence that competition would be advantageous to the Government, would not be cost or time prohibitive, and would not hinder the mission objective of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, National Centers for Environmental Health. The determination not to compete this proposed contract action is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information received will normally be considered for the purposes of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. The Government will not be responsible for any costs incurred by responding to this notice. This is NOT a request for quotes or proposals; however, the Government will consider any responses from capable sources received within 15 days after date of publication of this notice. Questions or comments to this Notice of Intent should be directed to the Contract Specialist, Ms. Sherrie Blackmon, at kuj1@cdc.gov via e-mail only (no phone calls/voice mail messages regarding questions will not be accepted and will not receive a response). Please indicate in the subject of your email: Notice of Intent Question Submission - 2017-Q-67342
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