Laboratory Instruments & Equipment

AMENDMENT TO ORIGINAL NOTICE 2013-56861 TO ADD OPTION PERIODS AND CORRECT THE NAME OF THE CONTRACTOR This is a notice of intent to award a sole-source purchase order and is not a request for competitive proposals. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, intends to solicit and enter into a contract with Life Technologies Corporation, 850 Lincoln Centre Dr., Foster City, CA 94404-1128. Life Technologies Corporation shall provide maintenance services for crucial laboratory instruments that are required to obtain the mission of the Influenza Division of Pandemic and Seasonal Surveillance and associated research for vaccine and therapeutics development. Life Technology Corporation is the only company capable of servicing the existing laboratory instruments due to its proprietary nature. CDC purchased the instruments in FY-2012 from Life Technologies Corporation and this acquisition will provide for the maintenance and service requirements of the instruments. The period of performance shall be for a base year and two (2) one-year (1) option periods (5/15/2013 - 5/14/2015) The Government intends to solicit, negotiate and award to only one contractor using other than full and open competition procedures pursuant to the authority of the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) 13.106-1(b)(1). The NAICS code for this acquisition is 334516, Business Size Standard 500 employees. This requirement will be procured under the guidelines of FAR Part 12, Commercial Items. Award will be made applying Simplified Acquisition Procedures, in accordance with FAR Part 13. Interested parties should submit a capabilities statement demonstrating their ability to provide the required services to the attention of Maria Nichols, by email at mkn2@cdc.gov, no later than 10 days from issuance of this notice or 4/1/2013. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals; however, the Government shall consider all responses received. A determination by the CDC not to compete this proposed contract, based upon responses to this notification, is solely within the discretion of the Contracting Officer.