SPECIAL NOTICE
J -- BD Biosciences instruments, preventive maintenance, and reagents.
- Notice Date
- 5/28/2024 1:13:55 PM
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 325414
— Biological Product (except Diagnostic) Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH Bethesda MD 20892 US
- ZIP Code
- 20892
- Solicitation Number
- 75N91024NOI6914193
- Response Due
- 6/4/2024 9:00:00 AM
- Archive Date
- 06/19/2024
- Point of Contact
- Miguel Diaz, Phone: 2402765439
- E-Mail Address
-
miguel.diaz@nih.gov
(miguel.diaz@nih.gov)
- Description
- The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Cancer Institute (NCI), Center for Cancer Research (CCR), Laboratory of Pathology (LP) plans to procure equipment, preventive maintenance, and consumable products, on a sole source basis, from Becton, Dickinson, and Company, BD Biosciences Business Unit, of One Becton Drive Franklin Lakes, NJ 07417. This acquisition will be processed under FAR Part 12 � Acquisition for Commercial Items and will be made pursuant to the authority in FAR Part 13.106-1(b)(1); and is exempt from the requirements of FAR Part 6. The response close date of this notice for this requirement is in accordance with FAR 5.203(a)(1). The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) codes and size standards are 325414 - 1,250 employees, 334516 - 1,000 employees, and 811210 - $34.0M. Flow Cytometric immunophenotyping is standard medical care for patients with hematolymphoid malignancies and therefore a necessary clinical service for NCI patients. The Laboratory of Pathology (LP) Flow Cytometry Laboratory is the only NIH laboratory providing standard diagnostic flow cytometric evaluation of minimal residual disease in neoplastic specimens. In addition, the LP Flow Cytometry Laboratory provides unique and highly complex flow cytometric testing mandated on numerous NCI protocols and unavailable at any commercial laboratory or any single academic pathology laboratory. The LP Flow Cytometry Laboratory has a very high specimen volume-to-resources ratio and care must currently be taken to accommodate a maximum number of daily specimens. Testing demand can exceed lab resources on occasion and patient specimens above the maximum may be refused to avoid increased error rates. BD Biosciences Lyse/Wash Assistants (LWAs) can support a higher maximum number of specimens by processing specimens independently, allowing the lab to perform additional testing. New protocols in Flow Cytometry immunophenotyping require the lab to meet the increasing demand for flow cytometric testing. Use of BD Biosciences LWAs, preventive maintenance for Government-owned BD Biosciences instruments, and BD Biosciences supporting equipment product supply are required to meet this demand. � The purpose of this acquisition is to provide use of BD-owned equipment including warranty, preventive maintenance for Government-owned equipment, and supporting equipment product supply to the Laboratory of Pathology / Flow Cytometry Laboratory by BD Biosciences. �The BD-owned equipment (FACS Lyse Wash Assistants) is a commercial item capable of preparing clinical protocol specimens for analysis with proprietary features to ensure consistency of cell yield with minimal loss. �The performance characteristics and standards have been established and proven to be beneficial to the Government�s need for consistency and quality. �The supporting equipment product supply (antibodies, quality control material and instrument reagents) have been in use with ongoing clinical protocol research and must continue to be utilized to prevent variation in research findings. � The supply of commercial antibodies, quality control material and instrument reagents are specific for use with the BD Bioscience instrument and are critical components for providing the Government with continued analysis of ongoing clinical research protocol specimens for Research & Development (R&D) in the Laboratory of Pathology. �Compatibility requirements with existing systems include BD FACSCanto II Flow Cytometer and FACS Supply System. �Compatibility of continued reagent instrumentation with existing BD FACSCantoII Flow Cytometers has been evaluated and qualified for testing the Flow Cytomerter Laboratory�s many clinical trial research protocols. � Any change in instrumentation or reagents would require evaluation of new testing methods for the entire antibody inventory against the manufacturer's specifications incurring interruption of patient care, staff retraining and SOP creation for approval without a guarantee of reproducible results critical to ongoing clinical protocols. �Use of new or alternate equipment, supplies or maintenance service from other sources will delay patient testing and impact research result outcome. � This notice is not a request for competitive quotation. However, if any interested party, especially small business believes it can meet the above requirement, it may submit a proposal or quote for the Government to consider. The response and any other information furnished must be in writing and must contain material in sufficient detail to allow NCI to determine if the party can perform the requirement. �Responses must be received in the contracting office by 12:00 PM ET, on May 31, 2024. �All responses and questions must be via email to Miguel Diaz, Contracting Officer at miguel.diaz@nih.gov. �A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed requirement based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information received will be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. �To receive an award, contractors must be registered and have valid certification through SAM.GOV with Representations and Certifications completed. Reference: 75N91024NOI6914193 on all correspondence. �
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- Place of Performance
- Address: Bethesda, MD, USA
- Country: USA
- Country: USA
- Record
- SN07077645-F 20240530/240529051339 (samdaily.us)
- Source
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