SPECIAL NOTICE
66 -- Notice of Intent to Negotiate on a Sole Source Basis
- Notice Date
- 12/20/2017
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- #334516
— Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- CPOD US Environmental Protection Agency 26 West Martin Luther King Drive Mail Code: NWD Cincinnati OH 45268 USA
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- 68HE0C18R0008
- Archive Date
- 3/30/2018
- Point of Contact
- Young, Sean
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) intends to negotiate on a sole source basis, under the authority of FAR 13.501(a), Sole Source Acquisitions, with PerkinElmer Health Sciences, Inc., for a NexION 2000P Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass spectrometer (ICP-MS). The EPA has identified PerkinElmer Health Sciences, as the only contractor able to provide the equipment with the unique capabilities and specifications in one instrument that EPA's Office of Research and Development (ORD), National Risk Management Research Laboratory (NRMRL), located at 26 West Martin Luther King Drive, Cincinnati, OH 45268 requires to meet its minimum needs. PerkinElmer Health Sciences is the sole manufacturer and distributor of NexION 2000P Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass spectrometer (ICP-MS). The NexION 2000P ICP-MS is the only Mass Spectrometer that can do what is required to satisfy the EPA's minimum needs as stated below: 1. The inductively coupled plasma mass spectrophotometer shall detect the concentrations of dissolved ions, suspended particles at extremely low concentrations in environmental matrices. 2. The instrument shall be used to distinguish the difference between inorganic compound that are in the ion form or as nanoparticle (1 to 100 nm). 3. The instrument shall verify the presence of particles, their concentration, composition, size and size distribution, dissolution and agglomeration tracking in a single run. 4. The instrument shall be able to see two elements per single nanoparticle. 5. The measurement shall allow real time nanoparticles visualization of number, size, concentration and composition. 6. The instrument shall have a fast continuous data acquisition with no settling (or overhead) time between consecutive readings to allow processing large volume of one hundred thousand data points per second. 7. The instrument setting and data processing shall allow measuring nanoparticle events in the plasma as low as 10 dwell time that allows a continuous data acquisition rates as fast as 105 Hz. Hence, the instrument shall allow fast continuous data acquisition with no settling time, and with no overhead time between consecutive readings and dwell time must be 10 µs or less. 8. The instrument shall allow full characterization with a signal acquisition rate of no less than 6 Million data points per minute that allows full characterization of a sample in less than 60 seconds. 9. The instrument shall allow users to read a minimum of 100,000 data points per second to acquire and process data from the nebulizer, mass spectrophotometer. 10. The instrument shall allow the calculation of particle size in the sample mix flown through the nebulizer based on the integration of signal peak area. 11. The instrument shall enable the determination of individual particle signal profiling for differentiation between ionic and particle fractions. 12. The single cell ICP-MS shall be upgradable to operate in the single-cell mode meeting the capabilities listed below in item 13 to 20. 13. The measurement shall allow the determination of mass of metal content per cell, from cellular uptake of metals (dissolved or metallic nanoparticles) or measuring the intrinsic metal content of the cell. 14. The instrument shall have the ability to differentiate between the dissolved and cellular fractions of the same analyte. The instrument shall allow the ability to clearly separate between exogenous ions and those endogenous to the cell. 15. Dwell time shall be 10 µs or less Single cell ICP-MS and upgradable to operate in the Single Cell mode meeting the capabilities listed below in items 16 to 20 16. The instrument shall allow the determination of the mass of metal content per cell, from cellular uptake of dissolved metals ions to elemental nanoparticles up taken including measuring the intrinsic metal content of the single cells. 17. The instrument shall provide mass distribution of nanoparticles concentration of cells containing metal or nanoparticles. 18. The single particle ICP-MS shall allow the EPA to determine the number of nanoparticles per cell and assists to differentiate between the dissolved and cellular fractions of the inorganic matter. 19. The instrument shall also have the ability to clearly separate between ions and particles that are originating from outside an organism (exogenous) and those coming from the cell (endogenous) 20. The instrument shall have software that eliminates the need for labor-intensive data processing by summarizing the above mentioned characteristics and allowing for easy reprocessing and export to Microsoft Excel. The NexION 2000P is the only ICP-MS that can achieve the required tasks without additional auxiliary units, and its equipment has the following unique capabilities: 1. Hardware with data acquisition speed of 100,000 points/second. 2. Single cell software Perkin Elmer has a patented data processing algorithm for systems and methods for automated analysis of outputs in single particles inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (US Patent 2015/0235833 A1). This procurement will be accomplished under FAR Parts 12 and 13. It is our intent to award a fixed price contract. Interested firms may identify their interest and capability to respond to the requirement. THIS NOTICE OF INTENT IS NOT A REQUEST FOR COMPETATIVE QUOTATIONS. A determination by the Government not to compete this acquisition based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Sources wishing to be considered MUST submit documentation to the office identified in this notice. Documentation must be submitted within 5 calendar days of the date of publication of this notice. Submit your capability statement via FedConnect at www.fedconnect.net through the message center. FedConnect is a web portal that connects agencies and vendors to streamline the process of doing business with the federal government. Through FedConnect contractors will be able to receive, review and respond to contract pre- and post-award actions and documents such as correspondence, request for proposals, tasking instruments and contract modifications. The use of FedConnect also furthers the EPA ¿s commitment to moving towards a paperless acquisition environment by reducing its carbon footprint and conducting its business in an ecologically friendly manner. There is no charge to use FedConnect. Telephone requests will not be honored.
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