88--MICE

Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration Network Contracting Activity (NCO) 10 VA250-16-Q-0651 SPECIAL NOTICE NOTICE OF INTENT TO SOLE SOURCE Mice The Department of Veterans Affairs, The Louis Stokes Cleveland Department of Veteran Affairs Medical Center, 10701 East Boulevard, Cleveland, Ohio 44106 intends to solicit and negotiate with only one source under the authority of FAR 6.302-1(a)(2), "Only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements." The VA intends to solicit and negotiate with Taconic Farms, 273 Hover Ave., Germantown, NY 12526, for Mice. The two strains of mice to be obtained are transgenic mice containing mutations in the inflammasome Nlrp3. The constitutive KO allele will be used as a control mouse The Government believes that only one business can satisfy the agency requirements and intends to negotiate with only one source under the authority of FAR 6.302-1(a)(2), "Only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements." Other persons may identify their interest and capability to respond to this requirement by Friday, September 2, 2016 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.