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66 -- LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPH AND ATTACHMENTS SOL 18-3K47-98 DUE 092598 POC Janice Speth, Contract Specialist, 301/504-6071 This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items identified below, prepared in accordance with the format in FAR Subpart 12.6 as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. The announcement constitutes the only solicitation; offers are being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued. The solicitation number 18-3K47-98, is issued as a Request for Quotation (RFQ), and incorporates provisions and clauses that are in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 97-07. This procurement is unrestricted. The standard industrial classification code is 3826, with a small business standard of 500 employees. The Government intends to negotiate non-competitively with Finnigan Mat/Thermo Quest Corp.; Old New Brunswick Road, Suite N-40; Piscataway, NJ 08854, under the authority of 41 U.S.C. 253(c)(1) when there is reasonable basis to conclude that the agency's minimum needs can only be satisfied by only one responsible source and no other supplies will satisfy agency requirement. The items below are sole source to Finnigan Mat because we require a compact benchtop liquid chromatograph-mass spectrometer system that is user-operated. The mass spectrometer system that meets our minimum requirement is on Federal supply schedule with Finnigan Mat, but its attachments listed below are not. A delivery order will be placed against an existing basic ordering agreement. Space is limited (92 cm deep x 220 cm long) where the LC instrument control and data acquisition is fully integrated on the MS controller. We need to fully integrate the control of both LC and MS functions and we need to have a single computer controller operating both aspects of an experiment, which only the Finnigan-SYS1 TSP LC system with associated detectors will meet the minimum requirement. Application: Chemical analysis within the Horticultural Crops Quality Laboratory (HCQL) is increasingly utilizing HPLC purification of complex phytochemicals of unknown structure. These compounds range from flavonoids, sugars, phytohormones and secondary products to small peptides and proteins. Complex compounds not suitable for GC-MS analysis and with a indole or other light adsorbing/fluorescing ring as part of their structure, are well suited for LC-MS analysis. The following items are to be used with a Finnigan Mat LCQ/MS(n)/DS high performance atmospheric pressure ionization (API) quadrupole ion trap mass spectrometer system: Line item 01: Liquid Chromatograph including degasser, gradient pump, autosampler, and controller for interfacing with the mass spectrometer data system. Line Item 02: Photodiode array detector for both UV and visible spectral detection. Line item 03: Scanning fluorescence detector. Both detectors (items 2 &3) should have low volume flow cells for use with low flow columns. Line item 4: Biochemistry Analysis Software for windows. All items are pending availability of funds, 52.232-18. The delivery is FOB destination (including inside delivery) to HCQL, Beltsville, Maryland. Delivery is required on or about February 1, 1999 or 120 calendar days after award. Any interested/qualified source who believes they can provide the required equipment must respond by 3:00 p.m. September 25, 1998. Fax quotes are acceptable. All such responses will be evaluated in order to determine the ability to meet the above stated capabilities. Responses shall include technical specifications, literature, brochures and other such information corresponding to the required items which demonstrates the capabilities of the offeror's equipment. Offerors shall identify where the offered item meets or does not meet each of the Government's functional and performance minimum specifications listed herein. Each offeror shall furnish past performance information -- three customer references within the last three years for the same or similar items including contract numbers, points of contact, address, and telephone number. The Government will award a contract resulting from this solicitation to the responsive/responsible offeror whoseoffer conforming to the solicitation will be most advantageous to the Government. The following factors shall be used to evaluate offers: Technical capability, past performance and price. Technical capability and past performance, when combined, are approximately equal to cost or price. The following FAR clauses and provisions apply: FAR 52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors-Commercial Items; FAR 52.212-2, Evaluation-Award to a technically acceptable offeror, at a fair and reasonable price; FAR 52.212-3, Offeror Representations and Certifications-Commercial Items. FAR 52-212-4, Contract Terms and Conditions-Commercial Items. The following FAR clauses in paragraph (b) of FAR 52.212-5, Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statues of Executive Orders-Commercial Items, will apply to the resultant contract: 52.222-26, 52.222-35, 52.222-36, 52.222-37, and 52.225-3. Addendum to include 52.247-34. All offerors must include a completed copy of FAR 52.212-3 with their response. Estimated award date is September 29, 1998. Posted 09/09/98 (W-SN247721). (0252)

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