Amendment 000001 to DE-SOL-0008483

THIS SOLICITATION/REQUEST FOR QUOTATION IS A GSA SMALL BUSINESS SET-ASIDE. QUOTES MUST BE FROM A SMALL BUSINESS AND INCLUDE GSA SCHEDULE CONTRACT PRICING. PLEASE LIST YOUR GSA CONTRACT NUMBER THAT IS BEING USED FOR THE PRICING ON YOUR QUOTATION.

NOTICE: The Department of Energy/National Energy Technology Laboratory (DOE/NETL) is issuing the following request for quote (RFQ) to GSA Schedule holders, set-aside for small business, for Carbon and Sulfur Analyzer for Inorganic Substances. This requirement is a total small business set-aside. Only quotes submitted by small business concerns will be accepted by the Government. Any quote that is submitted by a contractor that is not a small business concern will not be considered for award. Interested GSA Schedule holders are strongly encouraged to submit their quotation on the attached RFQ Standard Form (SF) 18, and provide all supporting documents, as necessary, via the FedConnect portal at www.fedconnect.net. The vendor?s quotation may also be accepted via email and fax. Vendors may email their quote to the Contract Specialist assigned to this requirement, Mr. Robert Mohn, at Robert.Mohn@netl.doe.gov or send by fax to 412-386-5770, Attn: Robert Mohn, by the due date and ti me indicated in Block 10 of the RFQ SF-18. Mr. Mohn can also be reached by telephone at 412-386-4963. If submitting a quote via FedConnect, please do not also submit via email.

EVALUATION: An award shall be made to the lowest priced, technically acceptable quote. An award shall be made to the responsible vendor submitting a technically acceptable quote and offering the lowest evaluated price. Vendors are encouraged to offer promotional or discount pricing off of their current GSA Schedule contracts. To be considered for evaluation, vendors must quote on all items/services listed in the solicitation. Vendors shall submit descriptive literature detailing features, technical capabilities and warranty data. Technical acceptability shall be determined solely on the content and merit of the information submitted in response to this solicitation as it compares to the attached Minimum Specifications document. All responses shall include a detailed description of how the proposed equipment meets the minimum specifications identified. This shall include model numbers and performance specifications. The vendor shall also provide a narrative that describes the theory of operations describing how the proposed instrument detects carbon and sulfur. Therefore, it is essential that vendors provide sufficient technical literature, documentation, etc., in order for the Government evaluation team to make an adequate technical assessment of the quote as meeting technical acceptability. Compliance shall be determined by the vendor?s provision of literature showing performance capabilities or through written narrative discussing the points not covered by the published literature