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NIH-CCOPC-SBSS-14-013072 Aquarium Maintenance For The National Institutes of Health Clinical Center This is a Small Business Sources Sought notice, This is NOT a solicitation for proposal abstracts, or quotations . The purpose of this notice is to obtain information regarding:(1) the availability and capability of qualify of qualified small business sources2) whether they are small businesses; HubZone small businesses; service disabled, veteran-owned small businesses; 8(a) disadvantaged small businesses; and(3) their size classification relative to the North American Industry Calssification system(NAICS)code for the poposed acquisistion. Your response to the informationrequested will assist in the government in determining the appropriate aquisistion method, including whether a setaside is possible. an Organizatin that is considered a small business under the applicable code should not submit a response to this notice. 1. BACKGROUND INFORMATION : The Clinical Center Complex of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is located in Bethesda, Maryland. The Clinical Center is the hospital of the NIH consisting of 234 inpatient beds, 76-day hospital stations, outpatient clinics, diagnostic and treatment areas, and public waiting areas. Adjacent to the hospital facilities are research laboratories. The complex consists of the Warren G. Magnuson Clinical Center (Magnuson Center) that covers 661,600 sq. ft. and the Mark O. Hatfield Clinical Research Center (Hatfield Center) that covers 698,263 sq. ft. The Magnuson Center is 61 years old and had a substantial addition completed in 1981 called the Ambulatory Care Research Facility (ACRF). The ACRF is a fourteen-floor structure that houses clinics and research laboratories on twelve floors. The first and second levels of the ACRF houses clinical services including diagnostic radiology, nuclear medicine and Positron Emission Tomography (PET), surgery, transfusion medicine and laboratory medicine. The Hatfield Center opened in 2005 and houses the inpatient units, day hospitals, additional clinics, admissions, pharmacy, social work, rehabilitation medicine departments, staff use areas, support areas and research laboratories. The Hatfield Center is a seven-story structure with a central large open atrium at the core of the building that connects four separate sectors that house occupants. Patients are housed on levels 1, 3, 5 and 7 on the southeast, southwest, northeast and northwest sectors of the facility. Levels 2, 4, and 6 are interstitial mechanical space except for small clusters of offices on the east and west elevator lobbies and atrium portions of the facility. Research laboratories are located on levels B3, B2, 1, 3 and 5. The laboratories lead to the southeast and southwest patient care units through distally placed elevator lobbies. Display aquaria for the Clinical Center are maintained in both the Hatfield Center and the Magnuson Center. 2 . SCOPE OF WORK The responsibility of the contractor is to arrange healthy aquaria and maintain the livelihood and environment of the fish that inhabit the aquaria with oversight by the Clinical Center's Animal Care Program. Currently, the Clinical Center requires maintenance on fifteen (15) total aquaria of which 3 salt are water and twelve (12) freshwater aquaria. The aquaria are located in various locations in the buildings; seven are in outpatient clinics in the ACRF, and the remainder in the inpatient areas of the Hatfield building. Maintenance agreements on aquaria have been in place in the Clinical Center since September 2000. The aquaria were installed for patients, guests and staff of the Clinical Center and are intended to provide a sense of comfort in a research hospital setting. The types of patients treated at the Clinical Center range from those who are incapacitated to those who are ambulatory. The aquaria play an important role in the patient's comfort and the contractor needs to be willing and comfortable to engage patients as appropriate. Capability Statement is to include ; information regarding respondents; (a) staff expertise, including their availability, experience and formal and other training (b) current in-house capability and capacity to perform the work,(c) prior completed protects of similar nature; (d) coporate experience and management capability; and (e) examples of prior completed Government contracts, references, other related information following information: A. Duns Number B. Company Name C. Company Address D. Company Points of Contact: names, titles, addresses, telephone and email addresses E. Current GSA Schedule appropriate to this Sources Sought F. Type of Company (i.e., small businesses, 8(a), woman-owned, veteran owned) as validated via the System for Award Management (SAM). All offerors must be registered in the SAM, located at www.sam.gov Disclaimer and Important Notices: 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 appopriate. Any organization responding to this notice should ensure that its reposnse is complete and sufficiently detailed allow the Government to determine the organizations qualifications to perform the work. Respondents are advised the the government is under no obligation to acknowledge receipt of the information received or provide feedbak to respondents with respect t o any information submitted. After review of the responses received,a pre-solicitation synopsis and solicitation maybe published in the Federal Business Opportunties. However,responses to this notice will not be considered adequate responses to a furture solicitation.