SPECIAL NOTICE
D -- Notice of Intent - ACD Software for Chemicals
- Notice Date
- 6/29/2018
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 511210
— Software Publishers
- Contracting Office
- Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Acquisition Management Division, 100 Bureau Drive, Building 301, Room B130, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 20899-1410, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20899-1410
- Solicitation Number
- 1333ND18QNB640175
- Archive Date
- 7/27/2018
- Point of Contact
- January Magyar, Phone: 3019755442, Wendy Paulo, Phone: 3019753976
- E-Mail Address
-
january.magyar@nist.gov, Wendy.Paulo@nist.gov
(january.magyar@nist.gov, Wendy.Paulo@nist.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) intends to negotiate, on a sole source basis, under the authority of FAR 13.106-1(b) (1), with Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc. (AC Labs) of Toronto, Canada to purchase ACD Software for Chemicals. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Material Measurement Laboratory (MML), Biomolecular Measurement Division (BMD) in Gaithersburg, Maryland is responsible for the development of chemical databases to accomplish NIST's mission to carry out collection, compilation, critical evaluation, publication, and sale of standard reference data in accordance with Public Law 90-396, 90th Congress, H.R. 6279, July 11, 1968. The chemical databases provide Standard Reference Data to the worldwide scientific community. The Mass Spectrometry Data Center (MSDC), a component of the BMD, is responsible for the development of the NIST/NIH/EPA Mass Spectral Library (chemdata.nist.gov). The development of the Mass Spectral Library centers on analyzing data collected in the MSDC laboratories by gas chromatography - mass spectrometry (GC/MS). To meet current mission requirements, the BMD needs to acquire a software system for the inventory of biological, organic and inorganic materials for the analysis by mass spectrometry. The software must allow the inclusion of available information about the material, such as chemical name of a compound, its chemical formula and molecular structure, molecular weight, Chemical Abstract Service Registry Number (CASR#), identification of the manufacturer of a chemical, copies of Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDSs), and more. The software shall allow search of a material by name, formula, molecular structure, inventory number, CASR# and molecular weight. A software package that consists of "ACD/ChemWorkbook", "ACD/Name" and "ACD/Spectrus General Knowledge Base System" by AC Labs is the only known product that satisfies BMD's requirements. Market research has shown that Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc. (AC Labs) is the developer and sole distributor of ACD/Labs software in North America. ACD/ChemWorkbook, ACD/Name and the ACD/Spectrus General Knowledge Base System are all software products developed and sold by ACD/Labs. Therefore, given these facts, AC Labs is the only source reasonably available to provide the required software. The resulting purchase order will be a Firm-Fixed-Price purchase order with a base period and four optional periods. The NAICS Code is 511210 with a size standard of $38.5M. No solicitation package will be issued. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive quotations; however, interested parties who regard themselves as capable of fulfilling these requirements are invited to submit responses to the Government for consideration. Responses received by 11:59 am EST 7/12/2018, will be considered by the Government. A determination by the Government not to compete the proposed acquisition based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information received will normally be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement.
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