SOLE SOURCE NOTICE** Annual Preventative Maintenance of Inductively Coupled Plasma - Mass Spectrom

The City of Salem, Oregon is proceeding with a sole-source award to Agilent Technologies Inc. (Santa Clara, California) for annual preventive maintenance of an Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometer (ICP-MS), with an anticipated award date of November 4, 2026. The notice states the City is using its Public Contracting Rules, Section IV, which permit alternative source selection when goods or services are available from only one source.

Affected persons may file a written protest of the sole-source determination with the City Manager's office at 555 Liberty Street SE, Room 220, Salem, Oregon 97301, within seven calendar days of the October 29, 2026 first date of public notice. Protests must include a certified or cashier's check for $500, a detailed statement of legal and factual grounds, supporting evidence, a description of resulting harm, and the relief requested. Protests received after the seven-day deadline are untimely and will not be reviewed.

The contract term is five years at $26,124 annually, totaling $130,620 over the contract period.