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75N98026Q01072

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National Institutes of Health Div. Simplified Acq. Policy & Services, OALM 6701 Rockledge Drive, RK II, 4th floor Bethesda, MD 20817

09/04/2026 1500 ED

ROXANE BURKETT

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ADM-NHLBI

ROXANE S. BURKETT

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National Institutes of Health

National, Heart, Lung and Blood

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Bethesda MD 20892-7511 US

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Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy

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PUBLIC NOTICE OF PROPOSED ACQUISITION

Office of Acquisitions, Office of Management

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

(FAR Subparts 5.101(a)(2))

1. Announcement/Number: 75N98026Q01072

2. Post Date: 08/26/2026

3. Closing Response Date: 09/04/2026

4. Proposed Award Date: 09/28/2026 – 09/27/2027

5. Project Title: Thorlabs Veneto Inverted Microscope for Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy (FLIM)

6. Contracting Office: R&D and Professional Services - Division B, OALM

Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health, 6701 Rockledge Drive, Rockledge Building 2, Suite 400, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-7902

7. Contact Point/Contracting Officer/Contract Specialist: Roxane Burkett – roxane.burkett@nih.gov

8. Acquisition Authority: This acquisition is being conducted under Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) Part 13 – Simplified Acquisition Procedures, and the resultant contract award will include all applicable provisions and clauses in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 2026-01.

9. North American Classification System (NAICS) Code: 334516

10. Small business size standard: 1,000 employees

11. Classification Code: 6650

12. Set-aside Status: None, this is a single-sole source (including brand-name) non-competitive action.

mailto:roxane.burkett@nih.gov

13. Description: The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), Laboratory of Advanced Microscopy and Biophotonics (LAMB), requires a Thorlabs Veneto Inverted Microscope to support fluorescence microscopy and high-resolution imaging of cells, tissues, and organelles. LAMB develops and applies advanced microscopy methods, including fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM), polarized FLIM, stimulated emission, RICS, confocal imaging, and multiphoton imaging. The laboratory intends to use the Veneto Inverted microscope as a one-for-one replacement for its approximately 20-year-old microscope, which has unreliable internal motors and is no longer serviced by the original manufacturer.

The required system must be modular and modifiable and must integrate with LAMB's existing optoelectronics, including femtosecond infrared and picosecond visible laser sources, Becker & Hickl time-correlated single photon counting (TCSPC) ultrafast detectors/electronics, and other laboratory optical components. The requirement also calls for an accessible, software-integrated data acquisition card (DAQ) to record lock-in amplifier signals used in stimulated emission and stimulated Raman measurements. The Statement of Need identifies the Veneto platform as a turnkey system capable of confocal, widefield, and multiphoton imaging, with seven customizable optical pathways, multiple-detector capability, a two-photon configuration, open-source software, and compatibility with the laboratory's existing laser and FLIM detector infrastructure.

14. Statutory Authority:

This acquisition is conducted under the authority of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 13—Simplified Acquisition Procedures, Subpart 13.106-1

(b) (1), Soliciting from a single source and is not expected to exceed the simplified acquisition threshold. Contracts awarded using FAR Part 13— Simplified Acquisition Procedures are exempt from the requirements of FAR Part 6—Competition Requirements.

15. Single-sole Source (Including brand-name) Determination:

The determination by the Government to make a single-sole source (including brand-name) award is based upon the market research conducted as prescribed in FAR Part 10—Market Research. Specifically, the results of the market research concluded that the Thorlabs Veneto Inverted Microscope is the only platform identified as capable of fulfilling the complete requirements of this acquisition.

The Laboratory of Advanced Microscopy and Biophotonics (LAMB) requires an inverted confocal/multiphoton microscope capable of integrating with its existing specialized optoelectronics, including femtosecond infrared and picosecond visible laser sources, Becker & Hickl time-correlated single-photon-counting detectors and electronics, and other specialized optical components. The system must also provide user-accessible and reconfigurable optical pathways, the ability to integrate specialized external hardware and signals, customizable acquisition control, and software-integrated data acquisition capability necessary to support the laboratory's custom stimulated-emission, stimulated-Raman, FLIM, and other advanced microscopy methods.

Market research determined that commercially available advanced microscopy systems provide overlapping imaging capabilities; however, no other platform identified through the research was demonstrated to satisfy the Government's complete combination of interoperability, optical-path accessibility and customization, external hardware and signal integration, and customizable acquisition-control requirements. The Thorlabs Veneto provides the modularity and accessible optical architecture necessary to integrate with LAMB's existing instrumentation while supporting modification and development of new microscopy methods.

Accordingly, the Thorlabs Veneto Inverted Microscope is the only platform identified through market research as capable of satisfying the Government's complete minimum requirement without materially altering LAMB's established instrumentation and experimental methods. For these reasons, the Government will proceed with the Thorlabs Veneto Inverted Microscope on a single-source/brand-name basis under FAR 13.106-1(b)(1).

16. Closing Statement:

This notice is not a request for competitive proposals. However, interested parties may identify their interest and capability to respond to this notice.

Responses to this notice shall contain sufficient information to establish the interested parties’ bona-fide capabilities for fulfilling the requirement and include:

unit price, list price, shipping and handling costs, the delivery period after contract award, the prompt payment discount terms, the F.O.B. Point (Destination or Origin), the Dun & Bradstreet Number (DUNS), the Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN), and the certification of business size. All offerors must have an active registration in the System for Award Management (SAM) www.sam.gov.”

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A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed action based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government.

The information received will normally be considered solely for the purposes of determining whether to proceed on a non-competitive basis or to conduct a competitive procurement.

All responses must be received by September 4, 2026 at 3:00PM EST.

Responses must be submitted via email to the Contracting Officer identified above.

“All responsible sources may submit a bid, proposal, or quotation which shall be considered by the agency.”