U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Contracts Management Division, Cincinnati, OH 45268-7001

66 -- FOURIER-TRANSFORM INFRARED MICROSCOPE SOL Request For Quote 96-78 POC Contact Point, Pam Legare, (513)366-2015 The USEPA plans to negotiate a contract on a sole source basis with Perkin Elmer, Inc., to provide a fourier-transform infrared microscope with a coupled GE attenuated total reflection (ATR) adjuctant. Negotiations shall be conducted pursuant to the authority of 41 U.S.C. 253 (c) (1), which allows for negotiation without full and open competition if there is only one responsible source. The basis for this determination is that the National Exposure Research Laboratory (NERL) is in the process of purchasing a FT-IR 200 Optical Bench, with a Michelson Interferometer from Perkin-Elmer under GSA contract GS-24F-1165B. However, the fourier-transform infrared microscope is not available on any GSA contract at this time. Because Perkin Elmer is the designer, developer and manufacturer of the equipment, there is no other vendor that can provide the equipment requested herein that would be fully capatible with the contractor's proprietary operational/configuration software which is mandatory for the coupled operation of the FT-IR spectrophotometer and microscope. THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS. Sources wishing to be considered must submit documention to the office identified above which establishes that their specifications are compatible with Perkin Elmer's proprietary operational/configuration software for the coupled operation of the FT-IR spectrophotometer and microscope. Documentation should be submitted within 15 dys of publication of this notice. See Note 22. (0142)

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