D.CSS_Attach1-Purchase_Description.pdf

Date: July 8, 2021

PURCHASE DESCRIPTION

1. Statement of Need and Purpose: The National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) needs weekly delivery of liquid nitrogen (LN) essential for operation of its labs.

2. Background Information and Objective: NCATS has equipment at 9800 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, Maryland requiring liquid nitrogen to run and operate and to serves as a back-up for freezer storage. The equipment requiring liquid nitrogen are as follows: Cryo Stores, -80C freezers, -150C freezers and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopies (NMRs). Without a regular supply of liquid nitrogen, the state-of-the-art equipment NCATS uses cannot function and thus NCATS labs could not operate.

3. Generic Name of Product: Liquid Nitrogen.

4. Purchase Description: Maximum annual quantity of 72,000 liters of Liquid nitrogen in each contract year.

5. Salient characteristics:

Contract Line Item

(CLIN)

Description Unit

Maximum Annual

Quantity 1 Liquid Nitrogen (Year 1)

July 30, 2021 to July 29, 2022 Liter 38,400

2 Option Quantity 1 – Liquid Nitrogen (Year 1) July 30, 2021 to July 29, 2022

Liter 33,600

3 Option Quantity 2 – Liquid Nitrogen (Year 2) July 30, 2022 to July 29, 2023

Liter 72,000

4 Option Quantity 3 – Liquid Nitrogen (Year 3) July 30, 2023 to July 29, 2024

Liter 72,000

5 Option Quantity 4 – Liquid Nitrogen (Year 4) July 30, 2024 to July 2025

Liter 72,000

6 Option Quantity 5 – Liquid Nitrogen (Year 5) July 30, 2025 to July 2026

Liter 72,000

The following salient characteristics for the above deliveries:

• Medical-grade liquid nitrogen o 99.5% purity o A certificate of analysis (CoA) shall be provided at the time of first delivery

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• Delivered in tanks supplied by the Contractor with:

o 240-liter capacity o A digital gauge measuring the product in the tank o A functional pressure gauge

Services incidental to these supplies include the following:

• NCATS will place a weekly requested delivery for LN every Monday or, in the event that day is a federal holiday, either Tuesday or the previous Friday, and the Contractor shall acknowledge receipt of request by email and deliver all requested amounts on Thursday of the same week of the order between the hours of 08:30 AM and 04:30 PM Eastern Time. The Government will provide Contractor personnel supervised access to the facilities as needed to allow completion of the deliveries and incidental services.

• During each delivery, Contractor personnel shall change out tanks (unhook old tanks and hookup new tanks) without assistance from NCATS staff.

• NCATS personnel will inspect deliveries upon completion and any defective tanks will be replaced at no cost.

• Upon completion of deliveries, the Contractor shall provide delivery receipts for each tank delivered (printed or electronic) to NCATS personnel.

• The Contractor will not charge rental, delivery, or hazmat fees.

The Government anticipates a single-awardee, Indefinite-Delivery, Indefinite-Quantity (IDIQ) contract with a 5-year ordering period. A single delivery order is anticipated to provide the required minimal annual quantities in year 1, and it will include separately priced option quantities for the anticipated required minimal annual quantities in years 2-

5. Additional delivery orders will be awarded if necessary to meet needs.

6. Quantity: See table in preceding section.

7. Delivery Date: At least weekly delivery of liquid nitrogen as requested by NCATS.

8. Period of Performance: Five (5) year IDIQ ordering period from July 30, 2021 to July

29, 2026.

9. Option(s): The delivery order award will include the following separately priced option quantities:

Option Quantity 1 (Year 1) If exercised this separately priced line item option will add up to a maximum of 33,600 liters of LN for Year 1.

Option Quantity 2 (Year 2) If exercised this separately priced line item option will add up to a maximum of 72,000 liters of LN for Year 2.

Option Quantity 3 (Year 3) If exercised this separately priced line item option will add up to a maximum of 72,000 liters of LN for Year 3.

Option Quantity 4 (Year 4) If exercised this separately priced line item option will add up to a maximum of 72,000 liters of LN for Year 4.

Option Quantity 5 (Year 5) If exercised this separately priced line item option will add up to a maximum of 72,000 liters of LN for Year 5.