Department of Veterans Affairs, Network Business Center, 5901 East Seventh Street, Bldg 149, Long Beach, CA 90822

66 -- INSTRUMENTS AND LABORATORY EQUIPMENT SOL RFP600-045-98 DUE 081398 POC Sara Trudeau, (562) 494-5534 The Network Business Center, Long Beach intends to negotiate a commercial item (FAR Part 12) sole source contract with Affymetrix, Santa Clara, California, for the VA Medical Center San Diego, under the authority of FAR 6.302-1. This procurement is for one (1) each GeneChip Instrument System to include: Genearrey (TM) Scanner, GeneChip Fluidics Station 400, GeneChip Workstation System, GeneChip Hybridezation, GeneChip Nucleotide, GeneChip Expression, GeneChip Sequence, GeneChip P53 Probe Array, and GeneChip P53 Reagent Kit. A justification for other than full and open competition has been prepared to support this procurement. Interested parties may identify their interest and capability to respond to this requirement. This notice is not a request for competitive proposals. A determination not to compete this proposed contract based on responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Issue Date: 7/15/98. Proposals due: 8/13/98 Close of Business. Posted 07/01/98. (0182)

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