Maintenance Agreement on Symbia T Equipment

This is a Notice of Intent, not a request for proposal. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) intends to negotiate on an other than full and open competition basis with Siemens Medical Solutions, to procure an annual maintenance agreement on the Symbia T Silver CT Scanner. This agreement will be a Base + 4 option years.

The maintenance agreement will be in support of ongoing research at the Vaccine Research Center (VRC) to investigate cellular and biochemical pathways responsible for the symptoms characteristics infectious diseases to further the vaccine development mission. Place of delivery is Bethesda, MD 20892.

The statutory authority for this sole source requirement is 41 U.S.C. 1901 (e) (2) as implemented by FAR 13.106-1 only one responsible source and no other supply of service will satisfy agency requirements. THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL. All responsible sources that could provide comparable services may submit a capability statement that will be considered by email (subject line to reference NOI-NIAID-1898507 to Laura Grey at laura.grey@nih.gov, by 5:00 pm eastern standard time May 22, 2018 All responses received by the closing date of this synopsis will be considered by the Government. A determination not to compete this requirement, based upon responses to this notice, is solely within the discretion of the Government.