Service agreement for NCATS’ Grenova TipNovus Mini Integrated Pipette Cleaning Station and TipNovus Pipette Cleaning Station with Option Years

INTRODUCTION
PURSUANT TO FAR Subpart 5.2—Synopses of Proposed Contract Actions, THIS IS A PRE-SOLICITATION NOTICE OF A PROPOSED CONTRACT TO ACTION.   

THIS IS A PRE-SOLICITATION NON-COMPETITIVE NOTICE OF INTENT TO AWARD A CONTRACT OR PURCHASE ORDER WITHOUT PROVIDING FOR FULL OR OPEN COMPETITION (INCLUDING BRAND-NAME). 

The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), Office of Acquisition (OA) at the National Insitutes of Health (NIH) on behalf of the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) intends to negotiate and award a purchase order for a service agreement for Grenova TipNovus Mini integrated pipette cleaning station and TipNovus pipette cleaning station to: Grenova, Inc., 2600 Decatur St. Bldg. 24A, Richmond, VA 23224-3602. UEI: XSCGMEZKBZB9.

Grenova is the sole manufacturer of this equipment in use at NCATS facitliites at 9800 Medical Center Drive. As a result of proprietary software and hardware used in these systems, only Grenova can provide these services. All field service engineer personnel must be original equipment manufacturer (OEM) factory trained or certified.
 

NORTH AMERICAN INDUSTRY CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM (NAICS) CODE
The intended procurement is classified under NAICS code 334516 with a Size Standard of 1,000 employees.

REGULATORY AUTHORITY
The resultant contract will include all applicable provisions and clauses of the Federal acquisition Requlation (FAR) currently in effect at https://www.acquisition.gov/

STATUTORY AUTHORITY
This acquisition is conducted under the authority of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 13—Simplified Acquisition Procedures, Subpart 13.5 in accordance with 41 U.S.C. 1901. Simplified Acquisition Procedures.

DESCRIPTION OF REQUIREMENT

Project Description
NCATS’ automated cell-based assay systems are the pinnacle systems for activities for medicinal compound discovery. As part of these activities, NCATS uses automated pipette stations to populate compound source micro-well plates, RNAi micro-well assay plates. Assay plates destined for NCATS’ automated cellular assays are often populated with cells, media and proteins/enzymes.

The Contractor shall perform the following:

• Full coverage inclusive of all parts, labor and travel – with the exception of consumable products
• 2 PMs/year at 6 month intervals
• Software & firmware updates as needed performed at PM
• Response time is 4 hours by email 48 hours on-site
• Remote support available via phone or email
   

Purpose and Objectives
Service agreement for NCATS’ Grenova TipNovus Mini integrated pipette cleaning station and TipNovus pipette cleaning station, with option years. Serial numbers TM1906 with arm serial number FOC-1912-91-01753 and TM2024

Period of Performance
12-month base period with two (2) 12-month option periods.

 

CLOSING STATEMENT
This synopsis is not a request for competitive proposals.  However, interested parties may identify their interest and capability to respond to this notice. 

Responses to this Notice must include clear and convincing evidence of the offeror’s capability of fulfilling the requirement.

In addition the Unique Entity Identifier (UEI), the Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN), and the certification of business size must be included in the response. All offerors must have an active registration in the System for Award Management (SAM) www.sam.gov.

A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed contract based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government.  The information received will normally be considered solely for the purposes of determining whether to proceed on a non-competitive basis or to conduct a competitive procurement.  

All responses must be received by 08:00 AM EDT July 21, 2023.Responses must be emailed to the Contracting Officer at mark.mcnally@nih.gov and reference the Notice ID 75N95023Q00516.

“All responsible sources may submit a bid, proposal, or quotation which shall be considered by the agency."