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(i) This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in Subpart 12.6 as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This annou... (i) This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in Subpart 12.6 as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; proposals are being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued. (ii) The solicitation number is 75N95025Q00178 and the solicitation is issued as a request for quotation (RFQ). This acquisition is for a commercial product or commercial service and is conducted under the authority of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 13—Simplified Acquisition Procedures; and FAR Part 12—Acquisition of Commercial Products and Commercial Services and is not expected to exceed the simplified acquisition threshold. (iii) The solicitation document and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular (FAC) Number 2025-03, with effective date 01/17/2025. (iv) The associated NAICS code 811210 and the small business size standard is $34.0 million. This requirement is full and open with no set-aside restrictions. (v) This requirement is for the following services: Service Agreement for Four IonField 1536 Cleaning Stations with TipChargers and the Pureplate MCS System (vi) Please see Statement of Work attached. (vii) The Government anticipates award of a firm fixed-price purchase order for this acquisition, and the anticipated period of performance for the base period is 12 months after award. The Government anticipates one 12-month option period. (viii) The provision at FAR 52.252-1, Solicitation Provisions Incorporated by Reference (Feb 1998), applies to this acquisition. This solicitation incorporates one or more solicitation provisions by reference, with the same force and effect as if they were given in full text. Upon request, the Contracting Officer will make their full text available. The offeror is cautioned that the listed provisions may include blocks that must be completed by the offeror and submitted with its quotation or offer. In lieu of submitting the full text of those provisions, the offeror may identify the provision by paragraph identifier and provide the appropriate information with its quotation or offer. Also, the full text of a solicitation provision may be accessed electronically at these addresses: https://www.acquisition.gov/browse/index/far https://www.hhs.gov/grants/contracts/contract-policies-regulations/hhsar/index.html https://www.acquisition.gov/caac-letters (End of provision) The following provisions apply to this acquisition and are incorporated by reference: FAR 52.204-7, System for Award Management (Nov 2024) FAR 52.204-16, Commercial and Government Entity Code Reporting (Aug 2020) FAR 52.204-29, Federal Acquisition Supply Chain Security Act Orders – Representation and Disclosures (Dec 2023) FAR 52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors-Commercial Products and Commercial Services (Sep 2023) FAR 52.212-3, Offeror Representations and Certifications-Commercial Products and Commercial Services (May 2024) (DEVIATION Feb 2025) CAAC_Letter_2025-01_Supplement-1.pdf and CAAC_Letter_2025-02_Supplement-1.pdf FAR 52.217-5, Evaluation of Options (July 1990) FAR 52.222-48, Exemption from Application of the Service Contract Labor Standards to Contracts for Maintenance, Calibration, or Repair of Certain Equipment-Certification (May 2014) The clause at FAR 52.252-2, Clauses Incorporated by Reference (Feb 1998), applies to this acquisition. This contract incorporates one or more clauses by reference, with the same force and effect as if they were given in full text. Upon request, the Contracting Officer will make their full text available. Also, the full text of a clause may be accessed electronically at these addresses: https://www.acquisition.gov/browse/index/far https://www.hhs.gov/grants/contracts/contract-policies-regulations/hhsar/index.html https://www.acquisition.gov/caac-letters (End of clause) The following clauses apply to this acquisition and are incorporated by reference: FAR 52.204-13, System for Award Management Maintenance (Oct 2018) FAR 52.204-18, Commercial and Government Entity Code Maintenance (Aug 2020) FAR 52.212-4, Contract Terms and Conditions—Commercial Products and Commercial Services (Nov 2023). FAR 52.217-9, Option to Extend the Term of the Contract (Mar 2000). Fill ins: 15 days, 30 days, 5 years The following provisions and clauses apply to this acquisition and are attached in full text. Offerors MUST complete the provisions below and submit completed copies as separate documents with their proposal. FAR 52.204-24 Representation Regarding Certain Telecommunications and Video Surveillance Services or Equipment (Nov 2021) FAR 52.204-26 Covered Telecommunications Equipment or Services-Representation (Oct 2020) FAR 52.212-5, Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statutes or Executive Orders--Commercial Products and Commercial Services (Jan 2025) (DEVIATION Feb 2025) Per CAAC Letters 2025-01 and 2025-02, FAR 52.222-21, Prohibition of Segregated Facilities and FAR 52.222-26 - Equal Opportunity will not be considered when making award decisions or enforce requirements. FAR 52.222-48 Exemption from Application of the Service Contract Labor Standards to Contracts for Maintenance, Calibration, or Repair of Certain Equipment-Certification (May 2014) HHSAR 352.239-78, Information and Communication Technology Accessibility Notice (Feb 2024) (DEVIATION). HHSAR 352.239-79, Information and Communication Technology Accessibility Notice (Feb 2024) (DEVIATION). FAR DEVIATION STATEMENT: The CAAC Letter 2025-01-Supplement 1 and CAAC Letter 2025-02-Supplement 1 are applicable to this acquisition. System updates may lag policy updates. The System for Award Management (SAM) may continue to require entities to complete representations based on provisions that are not included in agency solicitations. Examples include 52.222-25, Affirmative Action Compliance, and paragraph (d) of 52.212-3, Offeror Representations and Certifications—Commercial Products and Commercial Services. Contracting officers will not consider these representations when making award decisions or enforce requirements. Entities are not required to, nor are they able to, update their entity registration to remove these representations in SAM. The mentioned CAAC Letters may be accessed electronically at this address: CAAC Letters | Acquisition.GOV. The following invoice instruction is included and will be incorporated in the final award: NIH Invoicing Instructions with IPP (Mar 2023). (ix) The Government will evaluate quotations or offers in accordance with FAR 13.106-2 and award a purchase order from this solicitation to the responsible offeror whose quote conforming to the solicitation will be most advantageous to the Government, price and other factors considered. The following factors shall be used to evaluate quotes: a. Technical capability of the item offered to meet the Government requirement; b. Price; and c. Past performance [see FAR 13.106-2(b)(3)]. (a) Technical and past performance, when combined, are significantly more important than cost or price. (b) Options. The Government will evaluate offers for award purposes by adding the total price for all options to the total price for the basic requirement. The Government may determine that an offer is unacceptable if the option prices are significantly unbalanced. Evaluation of options shall not obligate the Government to exercise the option(s). (c) A written notice of award or acceptance of an offer, mailed or otherwise furnished to the successful offeror within the time for acceptance specified in the offer, shall result in a binding contract without further action by either party. Before the offer’s specified expiration time, the Government may accept an offer (or part of an offer), whether or not there are negotiations after its receipt, unless a written notice of withdrawal is received before award. (x) Offeror Representations and Certifications—Commercial Products and Commercial Services (May 2024) (DEVIATION Feb 2025), with its offer. If the offeror has completed FAR clause 52.212-3 at www.sam.gov, then the offeror does not need to provide a completed copy with its offer. See DEVIATION STATEMENT above regarding applicable CAAC Letters. (xi) The following additional contract requirement(s) or terms and conditions as determined by the contracting officer are necessary for this acquisition and consistent with customary commercial practices. (xii) The Defense Priorities and Allocations System (DPAS) are not applicable to this requirement. (xiii) Responses to this solicitation must include clear and convincing evidence of the offeror’s capability of fulfilling the requirement as it relates to the technical evaluation criteria. The price proposal must include the labor categories, an estimate of the number of hours required for each labor category, fully loaded fixed hourly rate or each labor category, breakdown and rationale for other direct costs or materials, and the total amount. The Unique Entity ID from SAM.gov, 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. All quotations must be received by 9:00 a.m., Eastern Daylight Time, on Friday, May 16, 2025, and reference Solicitation Number 75N95025Q00178. Responses must be submitted electronically to Emily Palombo, Contract Specialist, at Emily.palombo@nih.gov. Fax responses will not be accepted.

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This is a Small Business Sources Sought notice. This is NOT a solicitation for proposals, proposal abstracts, or quotations. The purpose of this notice is to obtain information regarding: (1) the avai... This is a Small Business Sources Sought notice. This is NOT a solicitation for proposals, proposal abstracts, or quotations. The purpose of this notice is to obtain information regarding: (1) the availability and capability of qualified small business sources; (2) whether they are small businesses; HUBZone small businesses; service-disabled, veteran-owned small businesses; 8(a) small businesses; veteran-owned small businesses; woman-owned small businesses; or small disadvantaged businesses; (3) their size classification relative to the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for the proposed acquisition. Your responses to the information requested will assist the Government in determining the appropriate acquisition method, including whether a set-aside is possible. An organization that is not considered a small business under the applicable NAICS code should not submit a response to this notice. This notice is issued to help determine the availability of qualified companies technically capable of meeting the Government requirement and to determine the method of acquisition. It is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government to issue a solicitation or ultimately award a contract. Responses will not be considered as proposals or quotes. No award will be made as a result of this notice. The Government will NOT be responsible for any costs incurred by the respondents to this notice. This notice is strictly for research and information purposes only. Background: The National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) Division of Preclinical Innovation (DPI) RSC group requires a service agreement for instruments used in the High Throughput Screening lab. A key element of high throughput screening is the addition of compounds into plates. A critical piece of equipment used at NCATS to do so is a pintool, which can rapidly add a fixed amount of compound to a plate at one time through capillary action. After this compound addition step, the most critical portion of operating a pin tool is to clean the pins off to prevent cross contamination once it is time for them to be used again. The purpose of this acquisition is to obtain service agreements on the IonField 1536 TipChargers, the main component of the TipCharger where the pins are actually cleaned. The TipCharger utilizes room temperature plasma technology to quantitatively clean pins better than the traditional solvent based wash methods. There are several key electrical and other components within the controller and the TipCharger itself which need to be maintained and in working order to continue to allow NCATS to generate quality data. Having the service agreement and preventative maintenance (PM) will ensure the device and all of its parts will be repaired in a timely manner when necessary minimizing down time therefore allowing the important research to continue uninterrupted. Purpose and Objectives: This request is for a contractor to provide a base year service agreement with 1 option year on 4 of the 1536 TipCharger cleaning units and a PurePLATE MCS plate washer which are integrated onto the Hamamatsu FDSS7000EX on the Tox robot and one of the pintools on the primary robotic screening system respectively. This superior washing method has greatly reduced compound carryover from plate to plate, produces cleaner data, minimizes contamination to cells, is beneficial for assays which have DMSO sensitivity and additionally has significantly cut back on the amount of DMSO solvent waste we are producing. This has benefited the Tox21 group and other biology groups at NCATS immensely when running calcium channel assays on the FDSS and has severely cut down on the amount of rescreens necessary which helps avoid wasting additional time, reagents and consumables. The TipCharger integrated onto the pintool on the primary screening robot is in use on a daily basis and cleans the pins used for compound transfer on approximately 500 assay plates each week. It is imperative that this piece of equipment is covered under a service agreement which includes hardware replacement, labor and a preventative maintenance (PM) visit. Project requirements: Service Agreement for IonField 1536 TipCharger – Hamamatsu unit Service Agreement for IonField 1536 TipCharger – Pin Tool unit Service Agreement for IonField 1536 TipCharger – FLIPR#2 unit Service Agreement for IonField 1536 TipCharger – Backup unit Service Agreeent for PurePLATE MCS plate washer Unit 1 is installed in a Hamamatsu FDSS, Unit 2 is installed in the Core Lab Pin Tool Station, Unit 3 is installed in the newer Molecular Devices FLIPR. Unit 4 is a newer 1536 TipCharger purchased with the newer FLIPR. The hardware does not have any components needing end user adjustment. Products covered by the service agreement shall be inspected annually to assess system status and check performance. All service must be provided by IonField Systems-certified technicians. Anticipated period of performance: The required base period of performance is a base period of 12 months after award with one 12-month option period. Capability statement /information sought. Small business concerns that believe they possess the capabilities to provide the required services should submit documentation of their ability to meet each of the project requirements to the Contracting Officer. The capability statement must specifically address each of the project requirements separately. Additionally, the capability statement should include 1) the total number of employees, 2) the professional qualifications of personnel as it relates to the requirements outlined, 3) any contractor GSA Schedule contracts and/or other government-wide acquisition contracts (GWACs) by which all of the requirements may be met, if applicable, and 4) any other information considered relevant to this program. Small businesses must also provide their Company Name, Unique Entity ID from SAM.gov, Physical Address, and Point of Contact Information. Interested small businesses are required to identify their type of business, applicable North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code, and size standards in accordance with the Small Business Administration. The government requests that no proprietary or confidential business data be submitted in a response to this notice. However, responses that indicate the information therein is proprietary will be properly safeguarded for Government use only. Capability statements must include the name and telephone number of a point of contact having authority and knowledge to discuss responses with Government representatives. Capability statements in response to this market survey that do not provide sufficient information for evaluation will be considered non-responsive. When submitting this information, please reference the solicitation notice number. The respondent must also provide their Unique Entity ID from SAM.gov, organization name, address, point of contact, and size and type of business (e.g., 8(a), HubZone, etc., pursuant to the applicable NAICS code and any other information that may be helpful in developing or finalizing the acquisition requirements. One (1) copy of the response is required and must be in Microsoft Word or Adobe PDF format using 11-point or 12-point font, 8-1/2” x 11” paper size, with 1” top, bottom, left and right margins, and with single or double spacing. The information submitted must be in and outline format that addresses each of the elements of the project requirement and in the capability statement /information sought paragraphs stated herein. A cover page and an executive summary may be included but is not required. The response is limited to ten (10) page limit. The 10-page limit does not include the cover page, executive summary, or references, if requested. The response must include the respondents’ technical and administrative points of contact, including names, titles, addresses, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail addresses. All responses to this notice must be submitted electronically to the Contract Specialist and Contracting Officer. Facsimile responses are NOT accepted. The response must be submitted to Emily Palombo, Contract Specialist, at e-mail address Emily.palombo@nih.gov. The response must be received on or before March 28, 2025, 9:00 am, Eastern Time. “Disclaimer and Important Notes: This notice does not obligate the Government to award a contract or otherwise pay for the information provided in response. The Government reserves the right to use information provided by respondents for any purpose deemed necessary and legally appropriate. Any organization responding to this notice should ensure that its response is complete and sufficiently detailed to allow the Government to determine the organization’s qualifications to perform the work. Respondents are advised that the Government is under no obligation to acknowledge receipt of the information received or provide feedback to respondents with respect to any information submitted. After a review of the responses received, a presolicitation synopsis and solicitation may be published in Federal Business Opportunities. However, responses to this notice will not be considered adequate responses to a solicitation. Confidentiality: No proprietary, classified, confidential, or sensitive information should be included in your response. The Government reserves the right to use any non-proprietary technical information in any resultant solicitation(s).”