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70 -- AFFYMETRIX GENECHIP SYSTEM SOL F33601-00-Q-A922 DUE 050100 POC Ryan Evans,937-257-4872 x4429 WEB: 00QA922-Affymetrix GeneChip System, http://www.pixs.wpafb.af.mil/pixslibr/00QA922/00QA922.asp. E-MAIL: ryan.evans@wpafb.af.mil, ryan.evans@wpafb.af.mil. Background "This is a combined synopsis/solicitation prepared in accordance with the format in FAR Subpart 12.6, as supplemented with additional information in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; proposals are being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued. This solicitation is issued as Request for Quotation (RFQ) number F33601-00-Q-A922. The solicitation document and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 97-16 and DCN 20000316. This is a Sole Source Requirement in accordance with (IAW) FAR 6.302-1. This solicitation is not a small business set aside. This RFQ has the following line items: 0001 Affymetrix GeneChip Scanner System, including HP GeneArray Scanner and GeneChip Workstation System (1 EA); 0002 Affymetrix GeneChip Fluidics Station 400 (1 EA); 0003 Affymetrix GeneChip LIMS Server License (1 EA); 0004 Affymetrix GeneChip Analysis Suite (1 EA). Required Delivery Schedule: 12 weeks ARO. The following provisions and clauses are incorporated by reference into this solicitation and any resulting award: FAR 52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors -- Commercial Items; FAR 52.212-4, Contract Terms and Conditions -- Commercial Items; FAR 52.212-5, Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statutes or Executive Orders -- Commercial Items (for paragraph (b), the following apply: 52.222-21, 52.222-26, 52.222-35, 52.222-36, 52.232-33 and 52.222-37); DFARS 252.212-7001, Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statutes or Executive Orders Applicable to Defense Acquisitions of Commercial Items (for para. (a), the following applies: 252.225-7001); and DFARS 252.204-7004, Required Central Contractor Registration. All information technology items must be Year 2000 compliant. Year 2000 compliant means information technology that accurately processes date/time data (including, but not limited to, calculating, comparing and sequencing) from, into and between the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and the years 1999 and 2000, and leap year calculations. Furthermore, Year 2000 compliant information technology, when used in conjunction with other information technology, shall accurately process date/time data if the other information technology properly exchanges date/time data with it. The Government intends to solicit and award to only one source: Affymetrix, Inc. 3380 Central Expressway, Santa Clara, CA 95051. Authority: 10 U.S.C. 2304(c)(1), Justification: supplies or services required are available from only one or a limited number of responsible source(s) and no other type of supplies and services will satisfy agency requirements. The anticipated award date is 02 May 00. This notice of intent to award a sole source contract is not a request for competitive proposals. However, interested parties may identify in writing, no later than 3:00 PM Eastern) 01 May 00, their interest and capability to respond to the requirement. Information received will normally be considered solely for the purpose ofdetermining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed contract based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Mr. Stephen J. Plaisted has been appointed as Ombudsman to hear concerns from offerors, or potential offerors,during the proposal development. The purpose of the Ombudsman is to communicate contractor concerns, issues,disagreements, and recommendations to the appropriate government personnel. Existence of the Ombudsman does not diminish the authority of the program director or the contracting officer. Accordingly, the Ombudsman does not participate in the preparation of solicitations, the evaluation of proposals or the source selection process and, therefore, for routine matters on individual solicitations, please contact the buyer at the telephone number listed herein. When requested the Ombudsman will maintain strict confidentiality as to the source of the concern. Should you desire to contactthe Ombudsman, Mr. Plaisted can be reached at (937) 255-9095, DSN 785-9095. His address is 1790 10th Street, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433. All information regarding this solicitation will be posted on the world wide web at http://www.pixs.wpafb.af.mil/pixslibr/00QA922/00QA922.asp. " Posted 04/18/00 (D-SN446172). (0109)

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