Instrument Service Agreement

THIS IS A PRE-SOLICITATION NON-COMPETITIVE (NOTICE OF INTENT) SYNOPSIS TO AWARD A CONTRACT OR PURCHASE ORDER WITHOUT PROVIDING FOR FULL OR OPEN COMPETITION (INCLUDING BRAND-NAME). The National Institutes of Health (NIH), Clinical Center (CC), Office of Purchasing and Contracts (OPC) on behalf of the Critical Care Medicine Department(CCMD), Clinical Center (CC) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) intends to negotiate and award a contract without providing for full and open competition (Including brand-name) to: Tecan US, Inc 9401 Globe Center Drive STE 140 Morrisville, NC 27560 The purpose of this procurement is to obtain a service contract on the TECAN INSTRUMENT POWER SCANNER system. This unit will run out of warranty on 11/11/2018 and it's imperative to have a service for maintenance. Tecan is the manufacture of this instrument and it is imperative that it be maintain by them in order to insure reproducibility in our experiments. This will be awarded as a base plus four(4), twelve(12) month options Period of Performance shall be from Base: 11/11/2018-11/10/2019 Option 1: 11/11/2019-11/10/2020 Option 2: 11/11/2020-11/10/2021 Option 3: 11/11/2021-11/10/2022 Option 4: 11/11/2023-11/10/2023 This synopsis is not a request for competitive proposals. However, interested parties may identify their interest and capability to respond to this notice. Responses to this notice shall contain sufficient information to establish the interested parties' bona-fide capabilities for fulfilling the requirement and include a technical proposal, a cost-price proposal, the period of performance, the Dun & Bradstreet Number (DUNS), the Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN), and the certification of business size. All offerors must have an active registration in the System for Award Management (SAM) www.sam.gov. 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. The information received will normally be considered solely for the purposes of determining whether to proceed on a non-competitive basis or to conduct a competitive procurement. All responses must be received by October 17, 05:00 PM Pacific time and must reference solicitation number 19-000028. Responses may be submitted electronically to Mr. R. Travis Brown, Contracting Specialist at robert.brown@nih.gov. Fax responses will not be accepted. "All responsible sources may submit a capability statement, proposal, or quotation, which shall be considered by the agency."