NOTICE OF INTENT-Brooks Automation Cryopumps and Compressors

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Acquisition Management Division, intends to negotiate with Edwards Vacuum LLC, located in Sanborn, NY, which used to be Brooks Automation, Inc located in Chelmsford, MA, on a sole source basis under the authority of FAR Subpart 13.106-1(b), soliciting from a single source to provide new CTI crycompressors and cryopumps.

The unique technical requirements are the following:

1. Capable of providing Brooks Automation Cryopumps and Compressors.
2. Parts will be repaired to original manufacture's standards.

The NAICS Code is 334513-Instruments and Related Products Manufacturing for Measuring, Displaying, and Controlling Industrial Process Variables, with a Size Standard of 750 employees, which has changed from 333242-Semiconductor Machinery Manufacturing which was incorrectly used in the Sources Sought, anticipates negotiating and awarding a firm-fixed-price purchase order to Edwards Vacuum LLC for this requirement.

Interested parties that can demonstrate they could satisfy the requirement listed above for NIST must clearly and unambiguously identify their capability to do so in writing on or before the response date for this notice. This notice of intent is not a solicitation. Information submitted in response to this notice will be used solely to determine whether competitive procedures could be used for this acquisition. If competitive procedures are not used it is estimated that an award will be issued by July 19, 2019. Any questions regarding this notice must be submitted in writing via email to angela.hitt@nist.gov. All responses to this notice of intent must be submitted to angela.hitt@nist.gov no later than July 8, 2019 at 2:30 p.m. MST.

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