BRAND NAME JUSTIFICATION.docx

☒ 41 USC 3304(a)(5) and FAR Part 6.302 - 5: Authorized or required by statute / Brand Name IV. This Assay will be used to process, handle, and analyze experimental samples. Experiments, research, and protocols have been built around this product. These kits are required for the Vaccine Research Center to continue to the next stage of research, this specific product is required. Use of another product/alternative would produce unusable or irrelevant data. This alternative would require research to start over significantly delay critical research efforts. Changing product brands to a different type at this stage in the testing/experiments would be disastrous, causing previous work to be invalidated, and most importantly the setback would cause unnecessary delays and would increase project costs. With that being said, the salient requirements of this research projects must be maintained. The project officer and the Contracting Officer have determined that only one brand-name source and no other brands or services will satisfy agency requirements.