Notice of Intent to Sole Source - Promega Maxwell

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration seeks procurement of a Promega Maxwell RSC 48 liquid handling system, forty Maxwell PureWater Kits, and associated shipping services, with offers due July 17 at 0900 Eastern Daylight Time. This is a notice of intent to sole source, limiting competition to Promega as the single approved vendor.

The procurement is set as a Women-Owned Small Business acquisition. Place of performance is Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory in Seattle, Washington, with administrative oversight at OAR Field Delegates in Kansas City, Missouri. Delivery is required by July 30 for the system and reagents.

The Ocean Molecular Ecology group at PMEL conducts high-throughput DNA extraction of environmental DNA samples to support oceanographic research assessing impacts of changing ocean conditions on species distribution. Current operations process 800–20,000 eDNA samples annually using equipment that extracts 24 samples in 10 hours, requiring 60–80 personnel days yearly. The Promega Maxwell RSC will extract 48 samples in 4 hours, reducing annual personnel requirements to approximately 15 days and enabling a four-fold increase in sample processing capacity. The NAICS code is 334516, Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing; the PSC code is 3990. Solicitation 1333MJ26Q0023 requires submission on Standard Form 1449 with blocks 12, 17, 23, 24, and 30 completed. Contractors must register in the System for Award Management, comply with debarment prohibitions, and submit invoices electronically through the Invoice Processing Platform System. FAR clauses 52.212-1, 52.212-4, 52.212-3, and 52.212-5 apply along with applicable Commerce Acquisition Regulation provisions and NOAA-specific accessibility standards for electronic and information technology.