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SPECIAL NOTICE NOTICE OF INTENT TO SOLE SOURCE Multiphoton Microscope Addons The Department of Veterans Affairs, Louis Stokes Medical Center (CLE VAMC), Medical Service, 10701 East Blvd., Cleveland, O... SPECIAL NOTICE NOTICE OF INTENT TO SOLE SOURCE Multiphoton Microscope Addons The Department of Veterans Affairs, Louis Stokes Medical Center (CLE VAMC), Medical Service, 10701 East Blvd., Cleveland, OH 44106, intends to solicit and negotiate with only one source under the authority of FAR 13.106 - Contracting officers may solicit from one source if the contracting officer determines that the circumstances of the contract action deem only one source reasonably available. The NAICS code is 334516 with a small business size standard of 500. The VA intends to solicit and negotiate with Nikon Instruments, Inc., 1300 Walt Witman Road, Melville, NY 11747 for a Multiphoton Microscope Addons. Nikon will provide and install accessories/add-ons for the A1R HD multiphoton (MP) microscope, which we just purchased from Nikon. The accessories/add-ons include the enhanced optogenetics components, additional high performance confocal objective lenses and items to maintain the lens, a second monitor for image acquisition workstation, online and offline high-performance NIS elements software modules for acquisition workstation with NIS-elements analysis suite, and micromanipulators for high-precision optical and electrophysiological experiments combined with complex behavioral paradigms in awake mice. They are only of vendor in the world that provides the add-ons compatible with the A1R HD multiphoton (MP) microscope. Other persons may identify their interest and capability to respond to this requirement by Monday, February 3, 2020 at 5PM EST. Such capabilities information will be used solely for the purpose of determining whether or not to conduct this procurement on a competitive basis. All information shall be furnished at no cost or obligation to the Government. A determination by the Government not to open the requirement to competition based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. No solicitation is available at this time. All inquiries must be submitted by email to Rachelle Hamer at rachelle.hamer@va.gov. Enter 36C25020Q0289 | Multiphoton Microscope Addons in the email subject line.