Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Procurement and Grants Office, 255 East Paces Ferry Road, NE, Room 500, Atlanta, Georgia 30305

66 -- QUANTIFERON-TB KITS SOL Requisition #DTB1398 DUE 112197 POC Dorothy Reed-Penix, Purchasing Agent, (404) 842-6774 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention intends to purchase on a sole source basis 75 QUANTIFERON-TB kits, item code 0300201, and QUANTIFERON micromix-5 plate shaker, item code 08500201. These items will be used to test the detection of latent Mycobacterium TB infection in active TB. It is intended that these items will be purchased from CSL, Ltd., ACN, 45 Poplar Rd., Parkville, Victoria, Australia. All interested parties may identify their interests, but must provide provide proof of capability, in writing, to provide an acceptable, comparable product by submitting pricing data, and complete, accurate and detailed description of their like product. Since no solicitation package exists, requests for such documents without accompanying information to establish the vendor's capability of meeting the Government's needs will be considered non-responsive to this synopsis. Only responses containing this data will be considered for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. Award will not be made on the basis of responses to this synopsis. If no feasible responses are received by the close of business 15 days from the date this notice appears in the CBD, a procurement will be negotiated with the above-named source. This notice may represent the Government's only official notice of procurement. (0308)

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