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