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Recovery and Re-Energization of Bruker 14T MRI Magnet
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The National Institutes of Health (NIH), under the Department of Health and Human Services, is soliciting a Firm-Fixed-Price contract for the urgent recovery and re-energization of a Bruker 14T MRI magnet located at the NIH Mouse Imaging Facility in Bethesda, Maryland. This magnet, essential for advanced radiological imaging of mice and other animal models, supports critical biomedical research that began prior to January 20, 2025. The magnet’s quench in February 2025 has severely disrupted ongoing studies, and restoring it to full operational status is vital to prevent further delays, protect prior NIH research investments, and allow the continuation and completion of these experimental protocols. The contract will provide all necessary labor, materials, and travel to complete the restoration, with performance expected soon after a planned award date in mid-June 2026. This procurement is conducted on a sole-source basis under FAR 6.302-1, identifying Bruker BioSpin Corporation as the only responsible source capable of performing the specialized restoration service. Consequently, no competitive evaluation factors, pricing data, or clause modifications are applicable. Inspection and acceptance will occur at the NIH facility in Bethesda, with the government maintaining final acceptance authority. The documentation does not specify packaging, marking, or detailed contract administration data, nor does it include attachments or special contract clause requirements. Proposals are limited to written capability statements submitted via email by June 2, 2026. The absence of competitive bidding and the unique nature of the service highlight the urgency and criticality of swiftly restoring the MRI magnet’s functionality to support NIH's intramural research mission.
General Info
Agency
NAICS
Place of Performance
Bethesda, MD, 20892, USASet-Aside
Timeline
Submission Closed
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Full Description
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the nation's leading medical research agency and the primary
Federal agency conducting and supporting medical discoveries that improve people's health and save
lives. The Mouse Imaging Facility (MIF) was established in 1999 as a shared resource dedicated to
providing access to modern radiological imaging methods optimized for studying mice (and other animals)
and developing state-of-the-art anatomical, functional and molecular imaging techniques for the entire
intramural NIH community. Currently, the MIF imaging resources include magnetic resonance imagers
(MRI), microcomputed tomography (Micro CT), optical imaging including bioluminescence and
f luorescence, high f requency ultrasound with photoacoustics imaging, other animal physiologic monitoring
equipment. The MIF has considerable technical expertise in animal imaging. The MIF mission requires
that all imaging equipment be in optimum working order for maximum use by NIH researchers. The 14T
magnet was used for imaging nearly 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, so its quench has had a
signif icant impairment to ongoing studies that were started before January 20, 2025. It is imperative to
restore the 14T magnet for imaging for studies that are currently delayed.
The objective is to bring the magnet back online for use as quickly as possible. Failure to procure these
services will result in continued disruption of ongoing research, possible loss of NIH investment in
research resources currently involved in the ongoing studies, and an inability to complete ongoing
imaging studies that began before January 20, 2025. This request falls under the category of instrument
maintenance and service and ongoing research experiments. Order relates to ongoing research
experiments that began before January 20, 2025, including new experiments related to studies that
began prior to January 20, 2025.