U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, Contracts Management Division (MD-33), Attn: ORDSC, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711

66 -- SPIROMETRY SYSTEM & BODY PLETHYSMOGRAPH SYSTEM SOL HCB137 DUE 090799 POC Antonio L. Leathers, Contract Specialist (919)541-2312 WEB: Click here for Commercial Buy Clauses, http://epa.gov/oam/rtp_cmd. E-MAIL: Click here to contact Contract Specialist via e-mail, leathers.antonio@epa.gov. THIS IS A COMBINED SYNOPSIS/SOLICITATION FOR COMMERCIAL ITEMS PREPARED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE FORMAT IN SUBPART 12.6, AS SUPPLEMENTED WITH ADDITIONAL INFORMATION INCLUDED IN THIS NOTICE. THIS ANNOUNCEMENT CONSTITUTES THE ONLY SOLICITATION; PROPOSALS ARE BEING REQUESTED AND A WRITTEN SOLICITATION WILL NOT BE ISSUED. The solicitation number is HCB137 and the solicitation is being issued as a Request for Quote (RFQ). The solicitation document and incorporated provision and clauses are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 97-12. The Contractor shall provide A Spirometry System and a Body Plethysmograph Systems. The systems must be compatible with the "VISION" software that is already in use. The Spirometry system must be computerized, volume displaced, dry rolling seal spirometer which measures Flow/Volume Loops, Static Lung Volumes, Maximal Voluntary Ventilation, and Broncho-Provacation responses. It must be a Windows 95/98 based system. It must assist the operator in evaluating the quality of performance, reproducibility of results, and generation of reports. It must include a relational data base to store and access large numbers of lung function tests. The system must conform to American Thoracic Society standards for spirometers. The System Specifications are as follows: 1) PC-based system with the Vmax series Windows-based 95/98 operating system; 2) Volume displaced, dry rolling seal spirometer with removable seal; 3) Displaced volume: 10 liters; 4) Dynamic Resistance: less than 1.0cm H2O/L/sec.; 5) Static Resistance: less than 0.20cm H2O; 6) Potentiometer linearity: +/-1% of full scale; and 7) Meets American Thoracic Society standards for spirometers. The Body Plethysmograph system must be a computerized system which includes the Body Plethysmograph and related hardware/software for measurement of Thoracic Gas Volume, Airways Resistance, Flow Volume Loops, compression Flow Volume Loops, Lung Volume subdivisions, and Maximum Voluntary Ventilation. It must be a Windows 95/98 based system. It must assist the operator in evaluating the quality of performance, reproducibility of results, and generation of reports. It must include a relational data base to store and access large numbers of lung function tests. The System Specifications are as follows: 1) PC-based system with the Vmax series Windows-based 95/98 operating system; 2) 1000 Liter cabin with double wall construction; 3) Glide out chair for easy access: 4) Freely rotating arm for testing inside or outside of box; 5) Auto zero/slope of analyzers and pressure transducers; 6) Transmural breathing port and chest wall spirometer; 7) Internal barometer and thermometer; and 8) Flow sensor must meet American Thoracic Society standards. The following FAR provisions apply to this solicitation: 52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors-Commercial Items; 52.212-3 Offerors Representations and Certifications-Commercial Items. Award will be made to the offeror that provides the best value to the Government. All offerors are to include with their offers a completed copy of provision 52.212-3, Offeror Representations and Certifications-Commercial Items. The following FAR clauses apply to this acquisition 52.212-4, Contract Terms and Conditions required to Implement Statutes or Executive Orders-Commercial Items. The following additional FAR clauses which are cited in 52.212-5 are applicable to this acquisition: 52.203-6, Restrictions on Subcontractor Sales to the Government, with Alternate I; 52.203-10, Price or Fee Adjustment for Illegal or Improper Activity; 52.219-14, Limitation of Subcontracting; 52.222-26, Equal Opportunity; 52.222-35, Affirmative Action for Special Disabled Vietnam Era Veterans; 52.222-36 Affirmative Action for Handicapped Workers; 52.222-37, Employment Reports on Special Disables Veterans and Veterans of the Vietnam Era; 52.225-3, Buy American Act-Supplies; 52.222-41, Service Contract Act of 1965, as Amended. Please submit quotes to Antonio L. Leathers, Contract Specialist, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, MD-33, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711 or fax to (919)541-1075. All offers are due by September 7, 1999, 4:30 p.m. EST. Referenced clauses can be found on the Internet at http://epa.gov/oam/rtp_cmd. Posted 08/30/99 (W-SN374135). (0242)

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