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Notice of Intent to Sole Source – 123A9422Q0038

The U.S. Department of Agriculture, Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS) intends to award a sole source purchase order to bioMérieux for the creation of a new process to generate Campylobacter allele codes suitable for FSIS, in support of the Office of Public Health Science (OPHS). Please see the limited sources justification for more details on the requirement.

This notice is not a formal solicitation. However, interested responsible sources may submit a capability statement for the agency’s consideration in determining whether a competitive procurement should be conducted in the future for this requirement. Any response to this notice must show clear, compelling, and convincing evidence that competition will be advantageous to the Government. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed procurement action based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the government.

1.) Date: July 22, 2022 2.) Contracting Office ZIP Code: 20250 3.) Product Service Code – Q301 (Medical-Laboratory Testing) 4.) Contracting Office Address: 5601 Sunnyside Avenue, Beltsville, MD 20250 5.) Subject: Notice of Intent to Sole Source 6.) Proposed Solicitation Number: 123A9422Q0038 7.) Closing Response Date: July 27, 2022, at 10:00am Eastern Standard Time 8.) Contact Specialist: Thomas Nasvytis, thomas.nasvytis@usda.gov 9.) Estimated Contract Award Dollar Amount: $93,000.00 10.) Proposed Contract Award Date: July 27, 2022 11.) Contractor: bioMérieux, Inc.

12.) Description: This requirement is for the creation of a new process to generate Campylobacter allele codes suitable for FSIS.

13.) Place of Contract Performance: 950 College Station Rd., Athens, GA 30605 14.) Set-aside Status: no set-aside used