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PRE-SOLICITATION NON-COMPETITIVE (NOTICE OF INTENT) SYNOPSIS INTRODUCTION THIS IS A PRE-SOLICITATION NON-COMPETITIVE (NOTICE OF INTENT) SYNOPSIS TO AWARD A CONTRACT OR PURCHASE ORDER WITHOUT PROVIDING FOR FULL OR OPEN COMPETITION. The National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Child Health and Development (NICHD), in support of the work of the National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Disease (NIDDK), Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry intends to award a purchase order without providing for full and open competition to University of Colorado 13123 E 16th Ave, Box 265, Aurora, Colorado 80045 to acquire iPSC Isolation and Programming. NORTH AMERICAN INDUSTRY CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM (NAICS) CODE The intended procurement is classified under NAICS code 541380 with a Size Standard $15.0 M. REGULATORY AUTHORITY The resultant contract will include all applicable provisions and clauses in effect through the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Circular (FAC) 2020-08 effective 08-13-2020. This acquisition is conducted under the procedures as prescribed in FAR subpart 13-Simplified Acquisition Procedures at an amount not exceeding the simplified acquisition threshold ($250,000) and FAR Subpart 12- Acquisition of Commercial Items. STATUTORY AUTHORITY This acquisition is conducted under the authority of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 13—Simplified Acquisition Procedures, Subpart 13.106-1 (b) (1), Soliciting from a single source and is not expected to exceed the simplified acquisition threshold. Contracts awarded using FAR Part 13—Simplified Acquisition Procedures are exempt from the requirements of FAR Part 6—Competition Requirements. Place of Performance National Institutes of Health 1550 E Indian School Rd Phoenix, AZ 85014 United States DESCRIPTION OF REQUIREMENT NIDDK is seeking the resources needed to acquire, isolate, and program pluripotent stem cells from the comprehensively phenotyped participants in the studies described above. We also wish to determine whether organoids generated from iPS cells of persons known to be at enhanced risk for diabetic kidney disease and other diabetic complications share the phenotype and expression patterns of the individual from which they were obtained. If so, these model systems could be extremely important tools for understanding the mechanisms of these diseases and for testing new therapies to address those disease mechanisms. CONTRACTING WITHOUT PROVIDING FOR FULL OR OPEN COMPETITION (INCLUDING BRAND- NAME) DETERMINATION The determination by the Government to award a contract without providing for full and open competition is based upon the market research conducted as prescribed in FAR Part 10—Market Research. Only one source is available: Per FAR 13.106-1(b)(1) the Contracting Officer has determined that The University of Colorado is the sole provider of the required iPS cells. Task Areas: Full reprogramming services. Reprogramming of stored peripheral blood mononuclear cells. Processing and storage of peripheral blood mononuclear cells. Storage of iPS cells after reprogramming. Publish results of work that involves these iPS cells with NIDDK investigators as authors CLOSING STATEMENT This synopsis is not a request for competitive proposals. However, interested parties may identify their interest and capability to respond to this notice. Responses to this notice shall contain sufficient information to establish the interested parties’ bona-fide capabilities for fulfilling the requirement, unit price, list price, shipping and handling costs, the delivery period after contract award, the prompt payment discount terms, the F.O.B. Point (Destination or Origin), the Dun & Bradstreet Number (DUNS), the Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN), and the certification of business size. All offerors must have an active registration in the System for Award Management (SAM) www.sam.gov.” 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. The information received will normally be considered solely for the purposes of determining whether to proceed on a non-competitive basis or to conduct a competitive procurement. All responses to this notice shall be submitted electronically by 11:00 AM Eastern Standard Time, on August 31, 2020 and shall reference NICHD-20-214