HPGe Gamma Ray Kit

This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) format in Subpart 12.6, as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; quotes are being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued. The solicitation number is FDA-SOL-1151625. This solicitation is issued as a Total Small Business Set, Request for Quote (RFQ), using the Simplified Acquisitions Procedures of FAR 13.5, Test Program for Certain Commercial Items. The solicitation documented and incorporated provisions and clauses in effect through the Federal Acquisition Circular (FAC) FAC 2005-82, Effective 07 May 2015. The associated North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code is - 334516 - Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing; Small Business Size Standard is 500 in number of employees. The US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) intends to issue a Commercial Item Firm Fixed-Price purchase order that meets the following specifications below. Please submit all quotes to be valid until September 30, 2015. SUPPLIES OR SERVICES AND PRICES/COSTS The contractor shall fill out the following pricing sheet: CLIN Description Qty Unit of Issue Price 0001 Brand Name or Equal to Perkin Elmer Quantulus 1220 or GCTLSC 1 EA $ Total Amount $ I. Background/Intro The FDA Winchester Engineering and Analytical Center (WEAC) is responsible for analyzing regulated products for radioactive contaminants and samples in response to radiological emergencies. To fulfill this responsibility and to ensure an appropriate sample capacity and high throughput during an emergency event, another ultra-low level liquid scintillation counter is need. Specifications of the liquid scintillation counter needed to fulfill our method data quality objectives are listed below. II. Minimum Characteristics A. Salient Characteristics 1. Must contain a passive radiation shield to attenuate most of the environmental gamma radiation with the following specifications - Made of low radioactivity Boliden lead 2. Must contain an active shielding technology to remove natural background fluctuations - Ultra-low background noise photomultiplier tubes for coincident sample counting - sample chamber is fully enclosed inside the passive radiation shield - Detectors are optically isolated from each other to provide background reduction 3. Sample detector that operates in anticoincidence with the guard detector - Automatic cancellation of non-sample events during sample counting 4. Multi-channel analyzers - Capable of saving multiple spectra for each sample - Capable of saving rejected counts - 12-bit linear analog-digital conversion - 0.0038 keV resolution in the lowest range - Delayed coincidence circuitry for 3H and other low energy beta emitters to detect interfering random coincidence signal, as chemiluminescence. 5. Alpha/beta pulse discriminator/analyzer for simultaneous acquisition of pure alpha and beta spectra from samples containing both types of radiation - Advanced pulse shape analyzer for sensitive liquid scintillation alpha counting - Alpha backgrounds reduction via alpha/beta discriminator setting - Ability to detect alpha emitters even in 100,000 excess of beta radiation 6. Pulse Amplitude Comparison - Allows ability to reject crosstalk between phototubes and background events produced in phototubes - Identifies true sample events which have much less variation in amplitude ratio 7. Must have anti-static cylinders as sample holders and light shutters to cover sample as it is raised into the sample chamber to reduce static electricity 8. Low Activity External Standard for Fast Quench Correction - High energy, low activity gamma source - An index of quench based on external standard quench parameter B. Special instructions The offeror shall include sufficient details on the technical specifications in order for a determination to be made as to whether the offeror meet all the technical requirements identified in the solicitation. Place(s) of Delivery: Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Winchester Engineering & Analytical Center (WEAC) 109 Holton Street Winchester, MA 01890 Vendor must call the POC at least 24-hours prior to arrival. The delivery or services must be during regular business hours (Monday-Friday) during the times of 8:00AM-2:00PM, excluding holidays. When the vendor arrives on site for delivery or services they will need to check in with the front desk security guards and provide proper identification. The POC will grant the vendor access to the FDA Suite. The vendor will also receive an "escort required" temporary badge from the POC which must be worn at all times in the building. When their work is complete they will turn in their temporary badge and check out with the front desk security guards. The following FAR and HHSAR clauses apply to this acquisition. FAR clauses and provisions can be obtained at https://www.acquisition.gov/far/index.html. The provision at 52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors-Commercial Items (Apr 2014), applies to this acquisition with the following addenda to the provision. Period for Acceptance of Offers: The offeror agrees to hold the prices firm through September 30, 2015. The provision at 52.212-2, Evaluation-Commercial Items (Jan 1999), is applicable to this requirement. The specific evaluation criteria to be included in paragraph (a) of that provision are as follows: The Government will award a contract resulting from this solicitation to the responsible offeror whose proposal meets the specifications listed under Part 3 of this solicitation and is the lowest priced proposal received in response to this solicitation. Therefore, award will be made to offeror whose proposal is determined to be Lowest Price Technically Acceptable. A written notice of award or acceptance of an offer mailed or otherwise furnished to the successful offeror within the time for acceptance specified in the offer, shall result in a binding contract without further action by either party. Before the offer's specified expiration time, the Government may accept an offer (or part of an offer), whether or not there are negotiations after its receipt, unless a written notice of withdrawal is received before award. The Provision at FAR 52.212-3, Offeror Representations and Certifications-Commercial Items (Mar 2015), applies to this acquisition. An offeror should complete only paragraph (b) of this provision if the offeror has completed the annual representations and certifications electronically at http://orca.bpn.gov. The clause at 52.212-4, Contract Terms and Conditions-Commercial Items (May 2015), applies to this acquisition with the following addenda: Invoice Submission: A. The contractor shall submit one original copy of each invoice to the address specified below: Office of Financial Services Food and Drug Administration W032- Second Floor MAIL HUB 2145 10903 New Hampshire Avenue Bldg 32, Rm# 2162, Mail Hub 2145 Silver Spring MD 20993-0002 Attn: Vendor Payments (301) 827-3742 or (866) 807-3742 fdavendorpaymentsteam@fda.gov B. Invoices submitted under this contract must comply with the requirements set forth in FAR Clauses 52.232-25 (Prompt Payment) and 52.232-33 (Payment by Electronic Funds Transfer - System for Award Management) and/or applicable Far Clauses specified herein. To constitute a proper invoice, the invoice must be submitted on company letterhead and include each of the following: (I) Name and address of the contractor; (II) Invoice Date and Invoice Number; (III) Purchase order/Award Number; (IV) Description, Quantity, Unit of Measure, Unit Price, and Extended Price Supplies Delivered or Services Performed, including: (a) Period of Performance for which costs are claimed; (b) Itemized travel costs, including origin and destination; and (c) Any other supporting information necessary to clarify questionable expenditures; (V) Shipping number and date of shipping, including the bill of lading number and weight of shipment if shipped on government bill of lading; (VI) Terms of any discount for prompt payment offered; (VII) Name and address of official to whom payment is to be sent (must be the same as that in the purchase order/award, or in a proper notice of assignment) (VIII) Name, title and phone number of person to notify in event of defective invoice; (IX) Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN); (X) Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) banking information, including routing transit number of the financial institution receiving payment and the number of the account into which funds are to be deposited; (XI) Name and telephone number of the FDA Contracting Officer Representative (COR) or other program center/office point of contact, as referenced on the purchase order; and, (XII) Any other information or documentation required by the purchase order/award. C. QUESTIONS REGARDING INVOICES SHALL BE DIRECTED TO THE FDA AT THE TELEPHONE NUMBER PROVIDED ABOVE. The clause at 52.212-5, Contract Terms and Conditions Required To Implement Statutes or Executive Orders-Commercial Items (May 2015), applies to this acquisition. The following additional FAR clauses cited in the clause are applicable to the acquisition: (b) 52.203-13, Contractor Code of Business Ethics and Conduct (Apr 2010) (Pub. L. 110-252, Title VI, Chapter 1 (41 U.S.C. 251 note)). 52.219-6, Notice of Total Small Business Aside (Nov 2011) (15 U.S.C. 644 52.222-21 Prohibition of Segregated Facilities (Feb 1999) 52.222-26 Equal Opportunity (Apr 2015) (E.O. 11246) 52.222-35 Equal Opportunity for Veterans (Jul 2014) (38 U.S.C. 4212) 52.222-36 Equal Opportunity for Workers with Disabilities (Jul 2014) (29 U.S.C. 793) 52.223-18 Encouraging Contractor Policies to Ban Text Messaging while Driving (Aug 2011) (E.O. 13513) 52.232-33 Payment by Electronic Funds Transfer- System for Award Management (Jul 2013) (31 U.S.C. 3332) FAR 52.232-40 Providing Accelerated Payments to Small Business Subcontractors (Dec 2013) FAR 52.211-6 Brand Name or Equal (Aug 1999) The following HHSAR clauses apply and can be obtained at the following website: http://farsite.hill.af.mil/VFHHSAR1.html 352.202-1 Definitions (Jan 2006) 352.203-70 Anti-lobbying (Jan 2006) 352.215-70 Late proposals and revisions (Jan 2006) 352.223-70 Safety and health (Jan 2006) 352.224-70 Privacy Act (Jan 2006) 352.228-7 Insurance--Liability to third persons (Dec 1991) 352.233-71 Litigation and claims (Jan 2006) 352.242-73 Withholding of contract payments (Jan 2006) 352.242-71 Tobacco-free Facilities (Jan 2006) 352.242-74 Final decisions on audit findings (Apr 1984) 352.270-1 Accessibility of meetings, conferences and seminars to persons with disabilities (Jan 2001) The supplies delivered hereunder shall be inspected and accepted at destination by the Contracting Officer's Representative (COR) specified at award. If the supplies or services are acceptable, the COR shall promptly forward a report of inspection and acceptance to the paying office. If the supplies or services are not acceptable, the COR shall document the nonconforming items/services and immediately notify the contracting officer. The COR name will be provided at time of award. The COR is responsible for: (1) monitoring the Contractor's technical progress, including the surveillance and assessment of performance and recommending to the Contracting Officer changes in requirements; (2) interpreting the Statement of Work and any other technical performance requirements; (3) performing technical evaluation as required; (4) performing technical inspections and acceptances required by this contract; and (5) assisting in the resolution of technical problems encountered during performance. The Contracting Officer is the only person with authority to act as agent of the Government under this contract. Only the Contracting Officer has authority to: (1) direct or negotiate any changes in the contract; (2) modify or extend the period of performance; (3) change the delivery schedule; (4) authorize reimbursement to the Contractor any costs incurred during the performance of this contract; or (5) otherwise change any terms and conditions of this contract. It is the offeror's responsibility to monitor the internet site for the release of an amendment to the combined synopsis/solicitation (if any). Offerors that fail to complete the required representations and certifications, or reject the terms and conditions of the solicitation, may be excluded from consideration. All responsible sources may submit a quote, which if timely received, shall be considered. The quote shall reference solicitation number FDA-SOL-1151582. The quotes are due by email to the point of contact listed below on or before August 05, 2015 by 1:00pm ET. Please contact Corina Genson at 240-402-5352 or email at Corina.Couch@fda.hhs.gov