67--PIXIS Equipment Purchase

This is a NOTICE OF INTENT TO AWARD A SOLE SOURCE CONTRACT using Federal Acquisition Regulation FAR Part 13, Simplified Acquisition Procedures. U.S. Army Contracting Command - Aberdeen Proving Grounds (ACC-APG) intends to award a sole source Firm Fixed Price (FFP) purchase order to Princeton Instruments located at 3660 Quakerbridge Road, Trenton, NJ 08619-1208. The NAICS Code for this requirement is 334516 and the size standard is 500 employees. The supplies required are two (2) CCD Camera Systems (PIXIS 400B Digital CCD Camera Systems) which will be purchased as a supply in direct support of the brass board detector builds for the Chemical Agent Raman Detector (CARD) Program. Princeton Instruments owns proprietary rights to this supply. The detector systems that support the CARD Program require a CCD Camera System with specific image area and dark current measurement requirements; and the detector systems currently use the Princeton Instruments PIXDIS 400B CCD Camera Systems. At this time, there are no other manufacturers in the market producing a camera system which meets these specific measurement requirements except Princeton Instruments. The proposed effort will be procured in accordance with simplified acquisition procedures. This NOTICE OF INTENT is not a request for competitive quotation. However, any responsible source who believes it is capable of meeting the requirement may submit a capability statement, proposal, or quotation, which shall be considered by the agency, only if received by the closing date and time of this notice. A determination not to compete the proposed requirement based upon the responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Interested parties with questions and/or comments regarding this notice or the planned procurement should be e-mailed to Contract Specialist Intern, Antoinette Aquiningoc, at [email protected] by 19 August 2014. Please note that NO telephonic inquiries will be accepted.