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J -- FURNISH MAINTENANCE ON GOVERNMENT OWNED NUCLEAR MEDICINE IMAGING AND PROCESSING UNITS SOL 263-97-P(LJ)-0011 POC Ann Argaman, Contract Specialist, 301-496-6254, Patrick Williams, Contracting Officer 301-496-2501. This is a notice of intent that the National Institutes of Health under the authority of 41 USC(c)(1)-FAR 6.302-1 intends to negotiate and award a sole source contract to Trionix Research Laboratory of Twinsburg, Ohio for the on-call maintencne (including preventative maintenance) and support for three Government-owned Trionix multi-headed camera systems; BIAD SN 111, TRIAD SN#TXLT20-223 Located at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. These services (maintenance as well as support) are considered to be commercial services. The Contractor shall be required to keep the equipment in good operating condition. The Contractor shall furnish all necessary personnel, labor, special tools, diagnostic equipment, parts, materials, supplies and travel to provide the required technical support and expertise for on-call repairs (which includes preventative maintenance) of the Government-owned Trionix equipment listed above. Additionally, the Contractor shall be required to furnish and support all system software including any Contractor sponsored standard modification or revision thereof, at no additional cost for the duration of the contract, including renewals thereof. The support provided shall consist of correction of errors, provision of Contractor sponsored standard modifications, improvements, revisions and upgrades. The Government shall be provided with full documentation of all Contractor changes and/or modifications to the software. The operating software required to make use of the Trionix equipment shall be supported by the Contractor. Operating software refers to those routines that interface directly with hardware peripheral devices, the computer operations and applications and utility programs. The software furnished shall conform to and perform in accordance with the Contractor's functional description and data requirements. The maintenance period shall be for twelve (12) months with four (4) successive twelve month option periods. Trionix is the only known firm that can provide the maintenance and support services which meet all of the Government's minimum requirements. All responses must be written and received by the individual at the address noted above within 15 calendar days from the publication date of this notice. Oral communication is not acceptable and will not be honored. A Statement of Work is available upon request. Responses requesting the solicitation without providing the required documentation (see next paragraph) shall not be considered. There is no solicitation document. Concerns that respond to this notice will be considered only if furnishing clear and convincing documentation demonstrating their ability to meet, at a minimum, the stated Government requirements. Written responses should contain sufficient technical information and a description of the proposed plan for meeting the requirements, in order to permit agency analysis to establish a bona fide capability to meet the stated requirements and should be directed to Ann Argaman at the address above. A determination by the Government to open the requirement to competition based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. The Government will not pay for prepartation or submission of any information submitted in response to this synopsis. See Numbered Note 22. Notwithstanding Numbered Note 22, written responses to this synopsis must be received at the address noted above within 15 calendar days from the publication date of this notice in order to receive consideration by the Government. (0319)

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