SOLICITATION NOTICE
65 -- Scientific Nitrogen Supplies
- Notice Date
- 6/28/2018
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 332420
— Metal Tank (Heavy Gauge) 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
- 18-012826
- Archive Date
- 7/9/2018
- Point of Contact
- Priscilla S. Abalos, Phone: 3015943879
- E-Mail Address
-
priscilla.abalos@nih.gov
(priscilla.abalos@nih.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- INTRODUCTION THIS IS A PRE-SOLICITATION NON-COMPETITIVE (NOTICE OF INTENT) SYNOPSIS TO AWARD A CONTRACT OR PURCHASE ORDER WITHOUT PROVIDING FOR FULL OR OPEN COMPETITION (INCLUDING BRAND-NAME). The National Institutes of Health (NIH), Clinical Center (CC), Office of Purchasing and Contracts (OPC) on behalf of the Department of Laboratory Medicine, Clinical Center (CC) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) intends to negotiate and award a contract without providing for full and open competition (Including brand-name) to Cryo332420 NORTH AMERICAN INDUSTRY CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM (NAICS) CODE: The Intended procurement is classified under NAICS code 325414 with a Size Standard 750 # of the employees. REGULATORY AUTHORITY The resultant contract will include all applicable provisions and clauses in effect through the Federal Acquisition Circular (FAC) 2005-97 May 31, 2018. This acquisition is conducted under the procedures as prescribed in FAR subpart 13-Simplified Acquisition Procedures at an amount not exceeding the simplified acquisition threshold ($150,000). STATUTORY AUTHORITY This acquisition is conducted under the authority of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 13-Simplified Acquisition Procedures, Subpart 13.106-1 (b) (1), Soliciting from a single source and is not expected to exceed the simplified acquisition threshold. Contracts awarded using FAR Part 13-Simplified Acquisition Procedures are exempt from the requirements of FAR Part 6-Competition Requirements. GENERAL INFORMATION 1. Title: Scientific Nitrogen Supplies 2. 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 and Centers. The NIH Clinical Center (CC) is the onsite hospital for the NIH campus, providing full support for clinical studies in inpatient and outpatient settings. The NIH CC is an 870,000 square-foot facility with the capacity to serve 240 inpatient beds and 82 day-hospital stations. The Cell Processing Section (CPS), Department of Transfusion Medicine, NIH CC is an AABB accredited cellular therapy laboratory whose central mission is to provide services to the NIH Institutes to support more than 50 intramural clinical trials. These services include (1) development, evaluation, and validation of investigational new drugs (INDs) for cellular therapies and (2) manufacture of cellular therapy products for approved clinical trials. The majority of these trials are early phase (I/II) trials not intended to result in the development of a commercial product. To provide these services, CPS operates a core facility (Charles S. Carter Cellular Therapy Laboratory) for the manufacture, storage, and distribution of cellular therapy products. CPS manufactures cellular therapy products from more than 800 collections from patients or healthy donors per year. The products manufactured by the laboratory are used to treat NIH CC patients with cancer, hematological malignancies, marrow failure, genetic immune disorders and autoimmune diseases. All products are manufactured using good manufacturing practices (GMP). The NIH protocols are institutional review board (IRB) approved and in the case of INDs approval by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for treatment of human subjects. Each subject must consent to participate in a NIH Clinical Research Study. 3. The objective of this proposal is to provide the Charles S. Carter Cellular Therapy Laboratory of the Cell Processing Section/Department of Transfusion Medicine/NIH CC with an effective, timely, and consistent manner of bulk liquid Nitrogen delivery service and tank rental. Scope of Work The contractor will supply liquid nitrogen and liquid nitrogen tanks to store approximately 350 cellular therapy products per year. The reagents may include but are not limited to those listed below: Liquid Nitrogen, On site delivery via MicroBulk per CCF Bulk Tank Rental per Month The combined costs of these reagents and supplies (including shipping costs) shall not exceed 24K per option year. The Contractor shall supply technical support for all reagents and supplies and their performance characteristics at no additional cost to the Government. Period of Performance 12 month base and, (4) 12 month options. October 01, 2018 to September 30, 2023 Packaging / Delivery Schedule /Shelf-Life Monthly onsite delivery of liquid nitrogen Government Responsibilities The Charles S. Carter Cellular Therapy Laboratory shall use the reagents and disposables in accordance with package inserts and directions for use unless otherwise validated. The NIH CC Cell Processing Section shall inspect shipments upon receipt and report any damage, defects or errors in shipment to the contractor. Shipments will use government carrier at the expense of the government unless otherwise arranged. The contractor shall bear the cost of replacement for reagents and disposables found to be damaged or defective upon receipt by NIH or for incorrect or incomplete shipments. CONTRACTING WITHOUT PROVIDING FOR FULL OR OPEN COMPETITION (INCLUDING BRAND-NAME) DETERMINATION The intended sole source is the only known source to meet the technical needs of the scientific equipment/supplies. The determination by the Government to award a contract without providing for full and open competition is based upon the market research conducted as prescribed in FAR Part 10-Market Research. CLOSING STATEMENT This synopsis is not a request for competitive proposals. However, interested parties may identify their interest and capability to respond to this notice. Responses to this notice shall contain sufficient information to establish the interested parties' bona-fide capabilities for fulfilling the requirement and include a technical proposal, a cost-price proposal, the period of performance, the Dun & Bradstreet Number (DUNS), the Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN), and the certification of business size. All offerors must have an active registration in the System for Award Management (SAM) www.sam.gov. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed contract based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. The information received will normally be considered solely for the purposes of determining whether to proceed on a non-competitive basis or to conduct a competitive procurement. All responses must be received by July 5, 2018 at 12:00 AM Eastern time and must reference solicitation number 18-011384. Responses may be submitted electronically to Priscilla Abalos, Contracting Specialist at Priscilla.abalos@nih.gov. Fax responses will not be accepted. "All responsible sources may submit a capability statement, proposal, or quotation, which shall be considered by the agency."
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- Place of Performance
- Address: National Institute of Health, 9000 Rockville Pike, bldg. 10-3C 720, Bethesda, Maryland, 20892, United States
- Zip Code: 20892
- Zip Code: 20892
- Record
- SN04973760-W 20180630/180628231450-75c98b98402f7648036885a93d0ee4d1 (fbodaily.com)
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