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COMMERCE BUSINESS DAILY ISSUE OF JUNE 28,1996 PSA#1626

NIH, OPM, 6120 Executive Blvd, Rockville, MD 20892-7260

70 -- SCIENTIFIC COMPUTER WORKSTATION POC Dianne M. Kelly, Contracting Officer, 301-402-3078. The National Institutes of Health intends to issue a purchase order under simplified purchase methods under Statutory Authority: 41 USC 253 (c)(1) (FAR 6.302-1) -(''Only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements''), intends to procure a one year contract sole source brand name acquisition of commercially available scientific computer workstation, associated peripherals and software from Applied Imaging Corporation, 2380 Walsh Ave., Bldg B. Santa Clara, CA. THIS IS SOLICITED UNDER ACQUISITION OF COMMERCIAL ITEMS. THIS IS A COMBINED SYNOPSIS/SOLICITATION FOR COMMERCIAL ITEMS PREPARED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE FORMAT IN SUBPART 12.6 AS SUPPLEMENTED WITH ADDITIONAL INFORMATION INCLUDED IN THIS NOTICE. THIS ANNOUNCEMENT CONSTITUTES THE ONLY SOLICITATION, PROPOSALS ARE BEING REQUESTED AND A WRITTEN SOLICITATION WILL NOT BE ISSUED. A two page response to this Request for Quotation (RFQ) 263-96-Q(DJ)-0310 shall be submitted by 3:00 P.M. local time on July 5, 1996 to NIH, Office of Procurement Management, Dianne Kelly, Contracting Officer, Bldg. Executive Plaza South, Room 819, 6120 Executive Blvd., Rockville, MD. 20892-7260. Delivery and Acceptance: required F.O.B. Destination Consignee's Premises to the National Institutes of Health, ATTN: Dr. Steve Zullo, Building 10, Bethesda, Maryland, Delivery Time: As soon as possible, 6 weeks desired, not to exceed 8 weeks after receipt of order. This requirement includes the supply and installation of: One CytoVision Ultra Workstation Including Automated Excitation Filter Wheel and Automated CGH Analysis Facility. Includes: * Intel Pentium Based Unix Workstation * One GigaByte Hard Drive, 24 MegaByte RAM * l50 MegaByte Tape Streamer for Software Upgrades and Case Archival * 3.5'' Floppy Drive Tiff Download of Images * l7'' High Resolution Color Monitor * High Resolution, Integrating CCD Camera with Microscope Adapter * Propriety 768 x 575 Pixel Image Capture Facility * 24 Bit/l6.7 Million Color FISH Imaging Facility * Propriety Twelve Position Excitation Filter Wheel with Adapters * Chroma Technology 82000 Filter Set * Intelligent Motion Systems Filter Wheel Driver Board * Integral Ethernet Capability for TCP/IP, NFS Networking * License to Use Applied Imaging Custom Cyto Vision, Cyto Vision Probe and Cyto Vision CGH Software * 600 MegaByte Rewritable Optical Drive * Two 600 MegaByte Optical Disks * License to Use Applied Imaging Custom Software * Mitsubishi S36090-30U Dye Sublimation Printer * One Color Ribbon (l00 pages), One B&W Ribbon (300 pages) * Two Boxes Dye Sublimation Printer Paper (l00 pages each) Custom CytoVision Mitsubishi Print Diver. A firm fixed price is to include a l2 month comprehensive warranty covering hardware, installation, labor, software, software upgrades during the warranty period at no additional charge, full user training by an application specialist, shipping, moving, and travel costs. The Government shall acquire only the technical data and the rights in that data customarily provided to the public with a commercial item. Commercial computer software or commercial computer software documentation shall be acquired under licenses customarily provided to the public to the extent such licenses are consistent with Federal law and otherwise satisfy the Government's needs. This RFQ and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through all Federal Acquisition Circular 90-32 for the acquisition of commercial items to be added to the purchase order: FAR 52.212.l Instructions to Offerors - Commercial Items 52.212.2 Evaluation - Commercial 52.2l2.3 Offer Representation and Certifications- Commercial Items 52.2l2.4 Contract Terms and Conditions - Commercial Items. 52.2l2.5 Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statutes or Executive Orders - Commercial Items - Evaluation Criteria: Must meet all the criteria requested above and provide three different sources were the company has provided these services before in order to check past performance. Submit a point of contact, phone number and address. All offers must provide a minimum of 3 references for similar contracts, (Commercial or Government) that demonstrate their ability to provide and maintain all the products specified (to include contact name, phone number). Telephone requests will not be honored. Affirmative responses are defined as written responses entitled ''Capability Statement'', with all data enclosed that are required to demonstrate their ability to satisfy this requirement. Terms and conditions, destination information, description information, descriptive literature/technical information describing the items proposed, maintenance and service information. Concerns offering to furnish equivalent/equal work to the items listed above will be considered only if responding with clear and convincing documentation demonstrating their ability to meet the requirements of this synopsis. Written responses shall include complete pricing information, equipment description containing sufficient technical information to permit agency analysis to establish a bonafide capability to meet the stated requirements as listed above. Responses will be evaluated according to who can meet the requirements at most favorable terms to the Government, considering the lowest overall cost alternative not necessarily at the lowest price. Only affirmative responses will receive full consideration. If no affirmative responses are received within the date of listed above, this synopsis in the CBD which demonstrate a lower overall cost alternative available to the Government, the Contracting Officer will proceed with this acquisition to Applied Imaging Corportion. All responsible sources may respond to this notice which shall be considered by this Agency. SEE Note 22. Note 22, forty-five days is modified to now when using the combined CBD synopsis/solicitation, to allow a l5 days response time for the contractor's proposal from the date the notice is published in the CBD. (0178)

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