Purchase Order 75N95025P00020

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) awarded a $165,883 firm-fixed-price purchase order to Sartorius Stedim North America Inc., a division of the German company Sartorius Aktiengesellschaft, to relocate two Sartorius CompacT SelecT laboratory instruments. The contract requires Sartorius to disassemble, move, and recommission one CompacT SelecT (Quartz) instrument from the NIH Laboratory of Neurogenetics to the NCATS facility, as well as to disassemble and prepare for transfer one CompacT SelecT (Annapurna) instrument from NCATS to NCATS storage. This sole-source procurement was conducted under simplified acquisition procedures and is classified under NAICS code 811210 - Electronic and Precision Equipment Repair and Maintenance, with no set-aside designation. Sartorius was selected as the sole-source contractor because the company does not allow third-party resellers or agents to service their equipment.