Purchase Order 75N93024P00448

The Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases awarded a $936,485.26 firm fixed-price purchase order contract to Leica Microsystems Inc., a manufacturer of microscopes and imaging equipment, to provide a base plus 2 option year maintenance agreement for 14 Leica microscopes and lasers used in the agency's Intramural Research Division. The contract has no set-aside designation. According to the pre-solicitation notice, the services must include full coverage for parts, labor, and travel, priority scheduling and response, annual preventive maintenance, 48-hour response time, and software/hardware updates. The equipment supports high-resolution structural studies for drug and vaccine development programs within the agency.