Provide Liquid Nitrogen and Rental of Tanks, Telemetry Units to NIST

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has a requirement for all of the following:
(1) Provide & deliver Liquid Nitrogen to a total of 12 NIST-owned and rented liquid nitrogen tanks sites on-site at NIST in Gaithersburg, MD; Boulder, CO; and Charleston, SC;

(2) Rental of Liquid Nitrogen Tanks;

(3) Installation, start-up, and maintenance of Rented Tanks;

(4) Rental, Installation, Maintenance & Monitoring of Telemetry Units;

(5) Rental and maintenance of one vaporizer; and

(6) Customer Service.

The period of performance shall be for a base period of one year with four (4) one year option periods.

Simplified acquisition procedures shall be utilized under the authority of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 13.5 and FAR Part 12.

This requirement is 100% set-aside for small business. The NAICS code for this requirement is 325120 with a small business size standard of 1,000 employees. Please note that the small business size standard for a non-manufacturer that is providing a product that they did not themselves manufacture is 500 employees.

The non-manufacturer rule is waived for this NAICS Code.

Award of a single firm fixed price, requirements-type contract is anticipated.

The competitive Request for Quotation (RFQ), amendments, and all questions and answers related to this procurement, shall be made available via the Internet at HTTP://WWW.FEDBIZOPPS.GOV under RFQ number SB1341-16-RQ-0239.

Potential quoters shall be responsible for obtaining this solicitation and related amendments, if any, from www.fbo.gov after the solicitation has been posted. It is, and will continue to be, the responsibility of each potential offeror to monitor www.fbo.gov for any amendments or other information related to the solicitation.

Any communications regarding this acquisition must be made in writing and forwarded via email to carol.wood@nist.gov. Communication must identify the solicitation number, company name, company address, as well as point of contact email address and phone number.

NIST anticipates posting the solicitation approximately seven days after the date of publication of this notice.