Maintenance, Repair, & Rebuilding of Equipment / Genome Analyzer

This is a combined Synopsis/Solicitation/Notice of Intent for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format of FAR Subpart 12.6 as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; quotations are not being requested, and a written solicitation will not be issued for the solicitation number NIAID-NOI-13C-1621187, a Notice of Intent. The incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular FAC2005-65, dated January 29, 2013. This acquisition will be processed under Simplified Acquisition Procedures (SAP) and is a not a small business set-aside, however small disadvantage, minority, veteran owned and HUB zone companies etc., are encourage in submitting a proposal. The associated North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code is 811219, which has a size standard of $7.0 in millions of dollars. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) intends to procure a one-year preventive maintenance service contract on a sole source basis with Illumina for the following equipment: 1) Genome Analyzer (s/n 3001569; and 2) cBot (s/n 600409). The Contractor shall provide one (1) preventative maintenance visit per contract period to include full coverage on all service parts and labor; comprehensive email support and telephone support (instrument, applications and bioinformatics), three (3) business day average on-site response time, critical and non-critical updates; applications support, access to on-line training modules, and discounts on optional advanced training programs. Period of Performance shall be one (1) year from date of award. Place of performance Bethesda, Maryland 20892. The award will be based on: 1) the capability to perform the above stated salient characteristics, 2) price, and 3) delivery (one (1) year from date of award). The FOB point shall be "Destination" and "Net 30". This will be a fixed price contract. The following Federal Acquisition Regulations provisions and clauses apply to the acquisition: FAR 52.212-1 Instructions to Offerors Commercial Items; Far 52.212-2 Evalutaion Commercial Items; Far 52.212-3 Offeror Representation and Certifications Commercial Items; Far 52.212-4 Contract Terms and Conditions Commercial Items; Far 52.212-5 Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statutes or Executive Orders Commercial Items; and FAR 52.232-33, Payment by Electronic Funds Transfer-Central Contractor Registration (Oct 2003). A completed copy of provisions at FAR 52.212-3 Offerors Representation and Certifications Commercial Items must be included which can be found online at System for Award Management (SAM) https://www.sam.gov. By submission of an offer, the offeror acknowledges the requirement that a prospective awardee shall be registered in the SAM database prior to award, during performance, and through final payment of any contract, basic agreement, basic ordering agreement, or blanket purchasing agreement resulting from this solicitation. [Note: Lack of registration in SAM will make an Offeror ineligible for award.] All responsible sources may submit an offer that will be considered by the Agency. Offers must be submitted no later than 5:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST), Thursday, March 7, 2013 through the U.S. Postal Service at the address of NIH/NIAID/AMOB, 10401 Fernwood Road, Room 2NE38A, Bethesda, MD, 20892-4811. Email and fax submissions are not acceptable. Requests for information concerning this requirement are to be addressed to Jennifer Walker at 301-402-2282, or email jwalker@niaid.nih.gov. Collect calls will not be accepted.