Hamilton LABELITE I. D. CAPPER

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Environmental Health Division of Laboratory Sciences (DLS), intends to award a sole source firm-fixed price contract, to procure a LABELITE I.D. CAPPER to Hamilton Storage Technologies Inc. 103 South Street, Hopkinton, MA 01748-2206.

The all-in-one I.D. Capper enables labs to combine decapping/capping and high-speed barcode reading within one device without any additional user interaction. This device is specifically designed to eliminate sample contamination and assist with sample tracking during end-to-end automated liquid handling processing.

The Hamilton Storage Technologies, Inc. is the only known available source that satisfies the requirement to have the continual maintenance of the hardware and software packages of the LABELITE I.D. CAPPER. The Hamilton system is equipped with their proprietary software that is not available through other vendors.

The statutory authority for this sole source acquisition is U.S.C. 2304 (c) (1) in accordance with FAR Part 6.302-1 only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy the agency requirements. The NAICS code for this procurement is 811310 Laboratory Instrument and Maintenance Services with size standard of 1,000 employees.

No solicitation will be posted to FedBizOpps. This notice of intent is not a request for proposal. A determination by the government not to compete the proposed purchase order based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Contracting Officer.

Interested parties who believe they possess the capability to satisfy this requirement should submit a capability statement demonstrating their ability to meet the requirement. Information received will be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. All responses should be emailed to Mr. Philip Robinson at KKQ4@CDC.GOV using solicitation number 2017-Q-67402 in the subject line no later than 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, September 7, 2017.