Service Contract for SW0111 & SW0108

General Information
Short Title: Service Contract for SW0111 and SW0108 in 2018
Document Type: Presolicitation Notice
Solicitation Number: N02RC82518-36
Posted Date: 12/22/2017
Response Date: 1/2/2018
Classification Code: J035 - Maintenance and Repair of Service and Trade Equipment
NAICS Code: 811212 - Computer and Office Machine Repair and Maintenance

Contracting Office Address

Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, Office of Acquisitions, 9609 Medical Center Drive, Room 1E232 Bethesda, MD 20892, UNITED STATES

Description

The Collaborative Protein Technology Resource (CPTR) is a core facility providing services of protein analysis to the NIH and CCR communities. Peggy SueTM assays on ProteinSimple instrumentations from ProteinSimple (Serial Number: SW0108 and SW0111) are the main services provided in CPTR. Maintaining these instruments is essential to the work we do and for the services we provide to the CCR community. Protein Simple is the sole source for the instruments repair services and maintenance.

This acquisition will be processed under FAR Part 12 - Acquisition for Commercial items and will be made pursuant to the authority in FAR 13.106-1(b)(1) using simplified acquisition procedures for commercial items. The North American Industry Classification System code is 811212 and the business size standard is $27,500,000.

Only one award will be made as a result of this solicitation. This will be awarded as a firm fixed price type contract with four option periods.

It has been determined there are no opportunities to acquire green products or services for this procurement.

Contractor shall provide all labor; material and equipment necessary to provide repair service for two (2) government-owned Peggy Sue capillary based immunoassay instruments, Serial Numbers SW-0108 and SW-0111. All maintenance service shall be performed on-site in accordance with the manufacturer's standard commercial maintenance practices or repaired at the contractor's headquarters with all parts and labor included. Field engineers shall have a minimum of three (3) years factory training and experience servicing ProteinSimple capillary based instrumentation. Software updates and support (both technical and software) shall be provided to the government at no additional cost. All service requests will receive preferential consideration over service requests from other customers that are not under existing warranty or service contract with the vendor. Service will be provided in a timely manner with acknowledgement of service request within two (2) hours and will provide commercially feasible efforts to have a field service engineer repair the instrument within three (3) business days after a service request is made. All service requests will receive preferential consideration over service requests from other customers that are not under existing warranty or service contract.

This notice is not a request for competitive quotation. However, if any interested party, especially small businesses, believes it can meet the above requirement, it may submit a capability statement, proposal, or quotation, which shall be considered by the agency. The statement of capabilities and any other information furnished must be in writing and must contain material in sufficient detail to allow NCI to determine if the party can perform the requirement. Responses must be received in the contracting office by 12:00 PM EST, on January 2, 2018. All responses and questions must be in writing and faxed 240-276-5401 or emailed to David Romley, Contract Specialist OR via electronic mail at david.romley@nih.gov. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed requirement based upon 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. No collect calls will be accepted. In order to receive an award, contractors must be registered and have valid certification in the System for Award Management (SAM) through sam.gov. Reference: N02RC82518-36 on all correspondence.