Buffy Coat Aliquot Workstation with Maintenance for Boston VA Research

Sources Sought Notice for notice of intent to award a sole source contract. This is not a solicitation. The Department of Veterans Affairs Boston intends to negotiate and award a contract to procure a Buffy Coat Aliquot Workstation for aliquoting human blood fractions with extended warranty, hardware and software maintenance and support from Tecan U.S., Inc., 9401 Globe Center Drive, Morrisville, NC 27560-2622 to be integrated with the same equipment previously purchased to support reproducibility of research results for a high throughput large scale genomics study. The contractor shall provide all labor, materials, installation, training and maintenance for the Automated Blood Aliquoting System. The solicitation will be released on a sole source basis to Tecan U.S., Inc., the only known source of this robotic Automated Liquid Handling processing system, part number us4525-SPS for aliquoting human blood fractions. The applicable NAICS code is 334516. The FSC/PSC is 6640. The authority for this action is FAR 6.302.1-1 Only One Responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements.



No solicitation will be posted to this site. Interested persons may contact the Contract Specialist regarding this procurement and may identify capabilities of this kind. Contract Specialist: Valerie DeAngelis, 401-459-4760 ext 1594, Valerie.DeAngelis@va.gov. Responses must be double-spaced with 1" margins on all sides and use a standard font no smaller than 12 point. Responses are due no later than three (3) days after this notice. Responses will not be considered after that date. A decision not to compete this requirement is based upon this notice and the Justification and Approval (J&A) to be posted to this site.



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