RFI-GASES.pdf

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Office of Acquisitions and Grants Services (OAGS) has issued this sources sought announcement on behalf of the Seattle Human and Animal Food Laboratory (SEAHAF) in order to determine if there are existing small business sources capable of providing Consumable Gases and Related Products for Laboratory Use.

If your firm is considered a small business source under North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code 325120- Industrial Gas Manufacturing; with a Small Business Size Standard of 1200 employees and believe that your firm would be able to provide the FDA with the supplies/services described below, please submit an email to Nina.Montgomery@fda.hhs.gov. The vendor should include information about the company and demonstrate that it can meet all of the minimum performance requirements.

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Kansas City Human and Animal Food Laboratory (ORA/ORS/KCLHAF), located in Lenexa, Kansas, conducts analysis of human and animal food, dietary supplements and ceramicware in support of the FDA’s mission to protect public health. KCLHAF is the national servicing center for FDA’s Total Diet Study (TDS), an ongoing surveillance program that started in 1961. The laboratory is ORA’s central point responsible for planning, processing and analyzing over 1200 samples representing 280 food items annually, including infant and toddler foods. Laboratory grade gases are required for both the preparation of samples and the operation of analytical chemical instrumentation that is used for the analysis of samples. The data resulting from chemical analysis is evaluated and used by the agency to implement regulatory actions. The analysis of regulatory and TDS samples at KCLHAF fulfills the workplan goals of the laboratory and contributes to fulfilling the mission of the FDA.

Objectives

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Kansas City Human and Animal Food Laboratory requires commercially available, consumable, high purity, and high-quality laboratory grade gases in compressed and liquid states on an “as needed” basis. Laboratory gases shall be contained in cylinders and bulk liquid gases contained in outside bulk storage tanks with gas fill-up services. The containers used to house the gases must be constructed of suitable materials for the chemical analysis that the gases are being used to facilitate.

Minimum Requirements for Consumable Gases and Related Products for Laboratory Use

All the following are minimum requirements. Equivalent requirements that differ from these minimum requirements must be justified by the proposing vendor and evaluated by the Government.

Consumable Gases Estimated Unit Size

Liquid Argon UHP 99.999% Liquid Nitrogen UHP 99.999% Argon, 300 cubic feet cylinder

UHP 99.999%

Helium, 300 cubic feet cylinder

UHP 99.999%

Hydrogen, 300 cubic feet cylinder

UHP 99.999%

Hydrogen 35 cubic feet cylinder

Oxygen 300 cubic feet cylinder

UHP 99.999%

Nitrogen 300 cubic feet cylinder

Liquid Argon Bulk Tank (one item) including installation, purging, filling

Liquid Nitrogen Bulk Tank (one item) including installation, purging, and filling