Multitron Stackable Incubator

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 Infors USA Inc, Annapolis Junction, MD 20701 for a Multitron Standard Incubator and clamps.
The Structural Informatics Unit (SIU) of the Laboratory of Infectious Diseases (LID) is seeking to procure a Multitron Refrigerating Incubator with 3 independent chambers, with size requirements.
Lab background and use: The SIU studies the structure of influenza viruses by electron microscopy. As such highly purified and characterized recombinant proteins are needed for these structural studies and these proteins need to be produced in bacterial cells that under controlled conditions in an incubator.

This procurement of the stacked incubator shaker with three chambers with temperatures independently controlled will allow the production of recombinant proteins from microbiology bacteria cells expressing proteins.

List of items:
QTY 1-Multitron Standard triple stacked incubator, with independent temperature chambers that holds 5 Liter Erlenmeyer flasks (meets size dimensions: 43"W x 35"D x 70"H)
QTY 12-ATK2000 clamp, 2L
QTY 6-ATK1000 clamp, 1L
QTY 6-ATK500 clamp, 500ml
QTY 6-ATK100 clamp, 100ml
QTY 9-ATKF3 2.8L Fernback clamp

Place of Performance is Bethesda, MD 20892.

The statutory authority for this sole source requirement is 41 U.S.C. 253 (c) (1) as implemented by FAR 6.302-1 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-1928604) to Skye Duffner at skye.duffner@nih.gov by 2:00 pm eastern standard time September 13, 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.

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