NOTICE_OF_INTENT_TO_SOLE_SOURCE.docx

NOTICE OF INTENT TO SOLE SOURCE

1. Solicitation Number: W81XWH-16-T-0155

2. Sole Source Title: Ingenuity Pathway Analysis (IPA) w/ Advanced Analytics

3. Agency: U.S. Army Medical U.S Army Center for Environmental Health Research (USACEHR), Fort Detrick, Frederick, MD

4. Contracting Office: U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity (USAMRAA), Fort Detrick, Frederick, MD

5. Location: Fort Detrick, Frederick, MD

6. Description: The U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity (USAMRAA) intends to award a sole source Firm-Fixed Price supply contract to Qiagen, Inc. located at 27220 Turnberry Lane, Suite 200, Valencia, CA 91355-1005 (DUNS 197294564; CAGE Code 01QT0). The statutory authority permitting the acquisition of this requirement by other than full and open competition is 41 U.S.C. 1901. The Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) citation is 13.501-1(a)(1)(i), and the FAR citation title is “Only one source reasonably available (including brand name)”.

7. Background: The U.S. Army Center for Environmental Health Research (USACEHR) develops surveillance capabilities to detect, assess, and prevent health effects from adverse environmental, physiological and psychological exposures. The USACEHR is an outgrowth of a robust and comprehensive toxicology program that existed as part of the U.S. Army Biomedical Research and Development Laboratory (USABRDL) under the U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command. USACEHR’s mission is to develop surveillance capabilities to detect, assess, and prevent health effects from adverse environmental, physiological, and psychological exposures.

8. Scope and Purpose: This requirement is to support the USACEHR’s Integrative Biology Program which requires the BD Phoenix Automated Microbiology System, Model #448100. USACEHR’s Integrative Systems Biology Program provides comprehensive molecular solutions for the diseases of military interest. USACEHR has historically used IPA for all gene array analysis and use of any other software analyses will cause previous data collected to be obsolete. A comparison to other commercially available systems has been conducted and none were compatible with previous data analyzed and collected with IPA. The IPA database is manually curated by PhD scientists and updated regularly to provide high-impact knowledge on a timely basis. Qiagen Inc. is the sole source for development, manufacture, and delivery of IPA software.

9. North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code: The NAICS code for this requirement is 511210, Software Publishers.

10. Anticipated Period of Performance: The anticipated period of performance is a 60 months.

11. Information to Industry: This Notice of Intent to Sole Source is for informational purposes only in accordance with (IAW) Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 5.201 and not a request for competitive proposals. Therefore, no solicitation document exists for this requirement. Interested parties should submit a Capability Statement and pricing information for this requirement within five (5) days of public notice to be considered by the Government. A determination to compete the proposed contract based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Responses received will be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive requirement.

12. Response Due Date: Interested vendors should submit the Capability Statement in response to this Notice of Intent to Sole Source electronically by 12:00 A.M. (EST) 18 July 2016 via e-mail to the Contract Specialist, Mr. Rudolph Spencer, at rudolph.j.spencer.civ@mail.mil. No phone calls will be accepted.

13. Notice Closes: This Notice of Intent to Sole Source closes on 18 July 2016 at 12:00 A.M. (EST).

14. Confidentiality: No proprietary, classified, confidential, or sensitive information should be included in response to this notice. The Government reserves the right to use any non-proprietary technical information in any resultant solicitation(s).