USDA, ARS, North Atlantic Area, Contracting Office, 600 East Mermaid Lane, Wyndmoor, PA 19038

J -- PREVENTATIVE MAINTENANCE FOR NMR SPECTROMETERS, CONSOLS, MAGNETS, AND SOFTWARE POC Lisa M. Botella, Point of Contact, (215) 233-6551, fax (215) 233-6558,Regina M. Herchak, Contracting Officer The USDA, Agricultural Research Service (ARS) intends to negotiate solely with Varian Associates, Inc. in Columbia, MD to provide preventative maintenance and emergency repair services for two (2) Varian Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectrometers and all associated equipment at the USDA, ARS, Eastern Regional Research Center, in Wyndmoor, (Philadelphia), PA. The services shall be required for the following Government-owned equipment: Gemini 200 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Spectrometer, console, and magnet; Unity Plus 400 NMR Spectrometer, console, and magnet; and two (2) Sun Spark 5 Stations with VNMR and Solaris software. Services shall include customer support and diagnostic telephone support and minimum of two (2) preventative maintenance visits per year to insure that all of the equipment is functioning properly and to make any required minor repairs. All software shall be "Y2K" compliant and maintained or upgraded as required. Services and repairs shall be provided on an as needed basis within 48 clock hours. The Contractor shall provide maintenance, service, repairs and replacement parts for all modules and subassemblies contained in the main console and/or peripheral equipment rack. Items include but are not limited to: software, SUN Sparc Station, disk drives, CRT terminals, keyboards, SCM power supplies, printers, graphic plotters, frequency synthesizers, preamplifiers, Cryogen level control units, receiver and transmitter modules, and all associated interconnections, printed circuit boards, cables and wiring harnesses. The contractor shall also provide maintenance service, repairs and replacement parts on magnetic windings, shims, power supply and related electronics, and cooling components of the two superconducting magnets. The contractor shall provide all updates to the user manuals. The Contractor shall also perform all liquid Helium refills required for the operation of the NMR's. The Government shall provide all gases and cryogens necessary. Service engineers provided shall be trained and certified by the instrument and software manufacturer to perform repairs on the spectrometers and software. The period of performance will be from October 1, 1999 through September 30, 2000, with two (2) 12-month options. The contractor shall provide a written report of the service/maintenance provided upon completion of each service call throughout the period of the contract. Companies with the demonstrated capability and financial capacity to provide and service all such equipment must submit a written substantive statement outlining the Company's and systems' capabilities to the Contracting Officer within 15 days of publication of this notice. This is not a request for proposal. No solicitation is available. Posted 07/23/99 (W-SN358561). (0204)

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