N -- Installation Upgrade

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) intends to award a sole source purchase order firm-fixed price type to Leco Corporation 3000 Lakeview Avenue Saint Joseph, MI 49085-2396; for an upgrade of existing Leco Pegasus III TOF instrument to a 2-dimensional GC/MS system. The upgrade will be used for developing qualitative as well as quantitative analytical methods. Qualitative in the respect that analysts that are structurally similar will be localized to a particular area of the 2-dimensional GC graph. This will enable identification of signals originating from structurally similar analysts. Identification of unknown PAH metabolites in human urine samples will further be possibly by the instruments full scan at low concentration capabilities (THIS ANNOUNCEMENT CONSTITUTES THE ONLY NOTICE THAT WILL BE ISSUED. The following provision(s) apply to this acquisition: 52.202-1, Definitions. 52.204-7, Central Contractor Registration. 52.212-3, Offeror Representations and Certifications Commercial Items. 52.212-4. 52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors-Commercial Items. 52.222-41, Service Contract Act of 1965. 52.222-42, Statement of Equivalent Rates for Federal Hires. 52.222.43, Fair Labor Standards Act. 52.222-44, Fair Labor Standards Act and Service Contract Act-Price Adjustment. 52.222.47, 52.222-48; 52.223-13;52.223-14; 52.232-1; 52.233-2; 52.233-3, Protest After Award. 52.237-1; 52.237-2; 52.249-4; 52.225-1, Buy American Act- Supplies (June 2003)(41 U.S.C. 10a-10d). 52.225-13, Restrictions on Certain Foreign Purchases (Oct 2003)(E.O.S., proclamations, and statutes administered by the office of Foreign Assets Control of the Department of the Treasury). 52.232-33, Payment by Electronic Funds Transfer-Central Contractor Registration (Oct. 2003)(31 U.S.C.3332. 52.233-1 – Disputes. 52.233-3, Protest After Award 52.243-1, Changes Fixed-Price. 52.249-1, Termination for the Government convenience. 52.249-8, Termination for Default. 52.252-2, Clauses Incorporated by Reference. NAICS CODE: 334516, SIZE STANDARD: 11.5m. For contractual question contact Matthew Ellington at (770) 488-2677.