Notice of Intent to Sole Source for Preventative Maintenance Agreement for Thermo Electron North America LLC instruments

Closed Special Notice Posted

Solicitation number
FA481920R0011
Agency
Responses due
Set-aside
No set-aside

Opportunity facts

Place of performance
Tyndall Afb Fl 32403 USA

Notice details come from SAM.gov. Updated .

About this opportunity

This Special Notice announces the Department of the Air Force Air Combat Command's intent to award a sole source contract to Thermo Electron North America LLC for preventative maintenance of various instruments. The equipment includes mass spectrometers, gas chromatographs, liquid chromatographs, and an inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometer.

The purpose is to provide all labor, tools, transportation, materials, and major parts necessary to maintain the listed analytical instrumentation from September 30, 2020 through September 29, 2025. Interested parties must identify themselves and provide evidence of their capability to fulfill the requirement by July 6, 2020 by email. However, as Thermo Fisher Scientific is the sole manufacturer and service provider of the equipment, no alternate sources are expected to be considered. The Special Notice is not a request for proposal or quote, but rather an advance notice of the agency's intent to award sole source to the original equipment manufacturer.

Notice text

The contractor shall provide all labor, tools, transportation, materials, and major parts necessary to maintain the equipment listed. 

Equipment includes:

DSQ Single Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer, Unity Essential Support Plan-CHROM-GC
Trace GC Ultra Mainframe, Unity Essential Support Plan-CHROM-GC
DSQ Single Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer, Unity Essential Support Plan-CHROM-GC
CTC Combipal Autosampler, Unity Essential Support Plan-CHROM-GC
System, LTQ XL STD, Unity Limited Support Plan-MSPEC-LCMS
UltiMate 3000 LPG-3400RS, Low Pressure, Unity Limited Plan-CHROM-LC DNX
UltiMate 3000 DAD-3000 Diode Array Detector,  Unity Limited Plan-CHROM-LC DNX
UtliMate 3000 WPS-3000TRS Thermostatted, Unity Limited Plan-CHROM-LC DNX
UtliMate 3000 TTC-3000RS Rapid Separation, Unity Limited Plan-CHROM-LC DNX
iCAP 7400 ICP-OES Duo with direct System, Unity Essential Plan - Elemental OE/ICP
Dual Pump, Analytical Isocratic and Gradient, Unity Essential Support Plan, Chrom, IC
Photodiode Array Detector, Unity Essential support Plan CHROM, IC
AS-AP Autosampler, Unity Essential Support Plan CHROM, IC
Detector Compartment, Dual Temperature Z, Unity Essential Support Plan, CHROM, IC

Preventative Maintenance contract dates:
30 Sep 2020 - 29 Sep 2025 with Thermo Electron North America LLC.

In accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 13, Simplified Acquisition Procedures, the Department of Defense (DOD), 325 Contracting Squadron/PKB 541 Mississippi Rd., Bldg. # 36271, Tyndall AFB, Florida, 32403 intends to award a purchase order on a sole source basis to Thermo Electron North America LLC to perform Preventative Maintenance for the instruments as listed above.

Thermo Fisher Scientific is the sole source equipment manufacturer and service provider for all Thermo Fisher Scientific instrument, parts, training, technical support, field service support, and software. No known potential alternate sources exist which could satisfy this requirement.

This notice of intent is not a request for quote/proposal. 

Any interested party that believes it can meet the requirement described herein may identify themselves and must provide evidence of their capability to fulfill the requirement being requested by 1:00 PM CST on July 6, 2020. 

Responses must be submitted in writing to kathryn.kitto@us.af.mil and brittany.kempton@us.af.mil no later than the time and date noted above.

Telephone responses and requests will not be received.  A determination by the Government not to compete this requirement based on responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government.  Information received will be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement.

Similar open opportunities

Opportunity Agency Set-aside Responses due
Notice of Intent to Sole Source a Thermo Orbitrap Fusion Lumos and Thermo RSLCnano UPLC Maintenance Agreement Georgia 30329, United States · NAICS 811210 CDC Office of Acquisition Services No set-aside
Notice of Intent to Sole Source – AB Sciex LLC Maryland 20892, United States · NAICS 339112 NIH Clinical Center No set-aside
Preventative Maintenance and Service Support for Thermo Fisher Scientific HERA VIOS 160i CO2 and VIOS 250i CO2 Incubators Bethesda, Maryland 20892, United States · NAICS 811210 Office of Logisitics and Acquisition Operations No set-aside
Upgrade to the FTIR Microscope, Raman Microscope and Ion Chromatograph equipment Indian Head, Maryland 20640, United States · NAICS 334516 Naval Sea Systems Command No set-aside
Differential Scanning Calorimeter and Thermal Gravimetric Analyzer Indian Head, Maryland 20640, United States · NAICS 334516 Naval Sea Systems Command No set-aside

On GovTribe

Work this opportunity

  • Track it in your pipeline
  • Find teaming partners
  • Similar opportunities
  • Ask GovTribe AI about this opportunity

GovTribe for Federal Contractors