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Questions & Answers (continued)

1. Question: PWS Paragraph 1.4.6, Reimbursable Supply; Will the government provide a list of approved supply vendors?

Answer: The following is a list of approved vendors (Note: This list is not all encompassing):

14 April 2015

FA3047-15-R-0006

· Life Technologies (Thermo Fisher Scientific)

· Biosearch Technologies

· Thermo Fisher Scientific

· VWR International

· Bio-Rad

· Luminex

· New England Bio-labs

· American Type Culture Collection (ATCC)

· Agilent Technologies

· Becton Dickinson

· Biotek

· Capitol Scientific

· EMD Millipore

· Eppendorf

· GE (General Electric) Healthcare

· Gilson

· Illumina

· Integrated DNA Technologies

· Qiagen

· Roche Applied Science

· Rainin

· Qnostics

· Promega

· Sigma-Aldrich 2.

3. Question: The instructions and evaluation factors indicate the Price Proposal and Technical Proposal are the only items to be submitted. However, page 108 of 178, states the following:

(a) The Government will award a contract resulting from this solicitation to the responsible offeror whose offer conforming to the solicitation will be most advantageous to the Government, price and other factors considered.

The following factors shall be used to evaluate offers:

(i) Technical Acceptable

(ii) Price

(Contracting Officer shall insert the significant evaluation factors, such as (i) technical capability of the item offered to meet the Government requirement; (ii) price; (iii) past performance (see FAR 15.304); and include them in the relative order of importance of the evaluation factors, such as in descending order of importance.)

Is past performance information required to be submitted with the proposal?

Answer: Addendum to 52.212-2 superceedes 52.212-2. Past perfromance information is not required to be submitted with the proposal.