Proposed Sole Source Zeiss Machine Upgrade

Pueblo Community College in Colorado issued a Notice of Proposed Sole Source Procurement on October 22, 2014, for a software and hardware upgrade to an existing Zeiss MC 850 machine. The procurement is designated as a sole source award to Carl Zeiss Industrial Metrology, LLC, the original equipment manufacturer. The scope of work involves upgrading the current Zeiss equipment with new software and hardware components, though specific details regarding the technical specifications, deliverables, and scope of upgrade work are not detailed in the notice. Interested parties were required to submit responses by October 27, 2014, at 9:00 a.m. via telephone or email only; electronic submissions through the Colorado VSS system were not accepted. Responses should be directed to Edmond Iniguez, Director of Purchasing at Pueblo Community College, at (719) 549-3206 or edmond.iniguez@pueblocc.edu. No evaluation criteria, qualification requirements, or specific performance standards are outlined in the procurement notice.

The notice does not identify any set-aside designations, disadvantaged enterprise restrictions, or limitations on organizational types eligible to respond beyond the sole source designation to Carl Zeiss Industrial Metrology, LLC. The existing infrastructure requiring integration is the Zeiss MC 850 machine currently in operation at Pueblo Community College. No contract pricing information, budget range, award value, contract term details, funding sources, or performance metrics are specified in this procurement notice. The sole source designation indicates that the college determined only the identified vendor possesses the necessary expertise and capability to perform the required upgrade work on the existing Zeiss equipment.