Notice of Intent to Sole Source Tecan Equipment Upgrade

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention intends to award a sole source, firm fixed price contract to Tecan US, Inc., 9401 Globe Center Dr., STE 140, Morrisville, NC 27560-6211 for robotic parts and installation to upgrade the existing Tecan Fluent 1080 system. The upgrade package includes: Barcode Scanner, Ziath DataPaq Express Rack Reader 2D, 96-Pos Barcode Scanner, Ziath 1D Scanner for DataPaq Mounting Plate for Ziath DataPaq Express to Back Deck Extension Driver, Ziath BCReader DataPaq Hettich Rotanta 460 automated robotic centrifuge with rotor 4444, 4x buckets (4490-R4) 4x bucket inserts 4492 for 50 ml Falcon tubes FE500 Positioning Board and Bolt for Centrifuge Driver, Hettich Rotanta, for FluentControl Labware adapter for BioShake (US3 Adapter BioShake) Q. Instruments BioShake 3000-T ELM, Orbital Shaker, Heating, 2016 Block Raiser BioShake 3000 19MM Mounting adapter for Fluent lower deck segment with 4 sites Grid Locators, Deck Segments, Set of 4 Edgeport (Digi) 4-port serial adapter, converts one USB port to 4 RS-232 serial ports Adapter, USB to Serial (RS232), Spare Driver, Q. Instruments, BioShake, EVOware and FluentControl Nsst Segment, 6-Position, Landscape, 7mm DiTi Tray, FCA Runner, Tube 16mm, 96-Position US_CDC-GA_CRR-VP141DW_HETADPT_CER, custom engineering parts RGA Fingers, FES Centric, set of 2 RGA FES Docking Station, Narrow RGA Fingers, FES Eccentric, set of 2 RGA FES Docking Station, Wide Door Lock Set, Fluent (for front shield), Spare Part Application Support - Level 4 Installation and Software Overview, for Hardware installation (new and upgrade) No other systems are known to exist that meet the specifications already in place, can be integrated with the existing Tecan Fluent 1080 workstation instrument, are provided with warranty, and provided with the programming and installation services required. This acquisition is being conducted under the authority of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 13 – Simplified Acquisition Procedures, Subpart 13.106-1(b)(1). This notice of intent is not a request for competitive quotations; however, all responsible sources may submit a capability statement, proposal, or quotation, which shall be considered by the agency. All responses received by the deadline specified in this notice, in accordance with FAR 5.203, will be considered by the government. A determination by the government not to compete this proposed contract based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the government. Information received will normally be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. Any response should be emailed to the contract specialist at [email protected] by 3:00 PM EST 23 June 2023.