DNA Analytical Reagents and Consumables
Closed Solicitation Posted
- Solicitation number
- DJF-19-0700-PR-0004461
- Agency
- Headquarters Division Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice
- Responses due
- Set-aside
- No set-aside
Opportunity facts
- NAICS code
- 334516 Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing
- PSC
- Not on record
Notice details come from SAM.gov. Updated .
About this opportunity
This notice announces the FBI's intent to award a sole-source, firm fixed-price contract to Life Technologies Corporation for DNA analytical reagents, consumables, and replacement parts. The reagents and consumables underwent extensive developmental validation as mandated by FBI standards and are required for use in the FBI Laboratory. The contract would have a one-year base period and four one-year options and be awarded under FAR 6.302-1. Interested parties can submit a capability statement by September 27, 2019 to identify their interest and capacity, though no competitive solicitation document is available as Life Technologies is currently the only supplier of FBI-validated reagents.
There is no set-aside designated for this requirement. Life Technologies of Carlsbad, CA is identified as the potential incumbent and only company able to provide the needed reagents and parts. The performance location is the FBI Laboratory. Interested parties must submit capability statements by 10:00am on September 27, 2019 referencing solicitation number DJF-19-0700-PR-0004461 via email or fax with no payment for any information received. A justification and approval document is available upon request.
Notice text
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) intends to award a firm fixed-price, indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity, with a base year and four (4) 1-year option periods, on a sole-source basis to Life Technologies Corporation, 5791 Van Allen Way, Carlsbad, CA 92008, under the authority of FAR 6.302-1.
Life Technologies is the only company that can provide the requested DNA analytical reagents, consumables and FBI installed replacement parts not covered under any warranty, and currently required by the FBI Laboratory. These reagents, supplies and parts include, (but are not limited to the following: Profiler Plus ID amplification kit, Cofiler amplification kit, ldentifiler amplification kit, 3130 XL Capillary Electrophoresis consumables, and 3730 Capillary Electrophoresis consumables, repair parts such as new syringes or buffer vials. The reagents and consumables from Life Technologies underwent an extensive developmental validation. The validation studies were done as mandated by the Quality Assurance Standards for Forensic DNA Testing Laboratories and Convicted Offender DNA Databasing Laboratories issued by the FBI Director, as well as the American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors. The FBI laboratory is unable to use any other reagents or consumables as Life Technologies is the only supplier of currently FBI validated DNA kits.
This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals. However, interested parties are advised that no solicitation document is available for this requirement and may identify their interest and capacity by submitting a capabilities statement by 10:00am EST, September 27, 2019. The capability statement must reference solicitation number DJF-19-0700-PR-0004461. The capability statement should be emailed to the Contracting Officer at ecyork@fbi.gov or submitted by fax to 703-985-6103. The Government will not pay for any information received.
A Justification and Approval (J & A) document is available upon request.
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