Brand name or equal Perkin Elmer High-Performance

The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) is seeking a Brand Name or Equal Perkin Elmer High-Performance Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer (ICP-MS) System under solicitation number 89243326QFE000546, with delivery required at the Morgantown, WV facility. The solicitation, issued on July 9, 2026, and amended on July 16, 2026, to include clarification via Q&A, is a commercial item acquisition under FAR Part 12, implying a Firm-Fixed-Price contract structure. Offers are due by 5:00 p.m. EDT on July 24, 2026, and must be submitted electronically through FedConnect; paper submissions are not accepted. The equipment must meet specified technical requirements, with inspection and acceptance occurring at destination under F.O.B. Destination terms. Contractors must provide the unit ready for commercial packaging practices without specified climate or shock protections, and all containers must clearly display the Government Purchase Order Number, vendor name, return address, and an externally accessible packing slip. No bar-code or military marking standards are mandated, though human-readable labeling is required. The contract includes a full suite of FAR clauses covering ethics, whistleblower protections, human trafficking prevention, equal opportunity, employment eligibility, privacy, security prohibitions, and small business utilization, with deviations applied to certain clauses related to veterans, disabilities, trafficking in persons, and security requirements. Contractors must comply with applicable sustainability and Buy American Act standards and are required to submit their UEI and CAGE code for themselves and upstream owners. The solicitation does not specify evaluation factors, weights, or award methodology, though the Government reserves the right to conduct discussions, indicating a potential trade-off assessment rather than LPTA. Invoicing is to be processed electronically through DOE’s VIPERS system with payment via EFT, and no COR, COTR, or PCO contact information is listed in the solicitation. Compliance with security prohibitions on equipment from covered foreign entities is required, and if the contract exceeds $700,000 and involves overseas performance, a Trafficking in Persons Compliance Plan must be implemented and flowed down to subcontractors. All representations must be current in SAM.gov at the time of offer submission, and misrepresentation may disqualify an offeror.