FEI Maintenace Agreement

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Laboratory Sciences, hereby announces it intends to award a sole source firm-fixed contract, to the FEI Company, 5350 NE Dawson Creek Drive, Hillsboro, OR 97124-5793, for a 4-year maintenance agreement for the Quanta 250 Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope. FEI is the only vendor that can potentially provide trained and qualified service engineers who are authorized to service the Quanta 250 Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope with energy dispersive x-ray spectroscopy attachment. The statutory authority for this sole source acquisition is U.S.C. 2304 (c) (1) in accordance with FAR Part 6.302-1 only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy the agency requirements. The NAICS code for this procurement is 811219 Other Commercial and Service Industry Machinery Manufacturing with size standard of $20,500,000.00. No solicitation will be posted to FedBizOpps. This notice of intent is not a request for proposal. A determination by the government not to compete the proposed purchase order based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Contracting Officer. Interested parties who believe they possess the capability to satisfy this requirement should submit a capability statement demonstrating their ability to meet the requirement. Information received will be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. All responses should be emailed to Mr. Philip Robinson at KKQ4@CDC.GOV using solicitation number 2018-Q-68067 in the subject line no later than 08:00 am Eastern Standard Time, 10 April, 2018. All vendors must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) prior to an award of a federal contract. The website is: www.sam.gov