Attachment B - Questions and Answers.pdf

This document is an Attachment B - Questions and Answers for Request for Quotation (RFQ) No. 75F40125Q00183, Amendment 1, containing two specific vendor questions and corresponding government responses. The questions addressed whether this is a new contract effort (confirmed as entirely new) and how shipping should be handled in the RFQ response (with the government indicating they amended the pricing table in Section 6 to add a shipping line). The RFQ is for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Human Foods Program, seeking to acquire a spiral plater and colony counter system for updating and validating bacteriological analytical methods for detecting Campylobacter in oysters. The anticipated period of performance is 12 months, with an expected start date of June 23, 2025, and the procurement will be a Firm-Fixed Price Purchase Order based on the Eddy Jet 2W Automatic Spiral Plater and SphereFlash Automated Colony Counter manufactured by NEU-TEC GROUP INC.