Clinitek Advantus and Status Urinalysis Analyzers Service Maintenance
Notice of Intent to Sole Source
The Naval Medical Center San Diego (NMCSD) intends to award a sole source purchase order under the authority of FAR 13.106-1(b) (i), due to only one responsible source to meet the Government's needs, to Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics, Inc., located at 115 Norwood Park S, Norwood, MA 02062-4633. The objective of this sole source award is to procure full service repair / replacement and maintenance for the Government-owned Five (5) Siemens Clinitek Advantus+ and Four (4) Clinitek Status+ Urinalysis Analyzers. Sole source is based on OEM-certified parts and labor in order to ensure critical devices work optimally as intended by the manufacturer. Laboratory Department will contact vendor of malfunctioning analyzer; vendor will ship replacement overnight. Laboratory will ship broken analyzer to vendor within fifteen (15) days of receiving replacement analyzer. Vendor must be able to provide a loaner instrument to be shipped over night while repairs are performed on malfunctioning instrument. All equipment noted has some maintenance that is "manufacturer-required", and can only be performed by a Siemens field service certified technician, due to the complexity of the equipment in question, and to the patient safety factors and liability issues. Service maintenance must meet the service expectation as outlined in the attached statement of work. Due to the OEM-certified service nature of the equipment, no other company was found that could provide maintenance should a problem arise. The NAICS Code for this requirement is 811219; the small business size standard is $20.5 million. Service Maintenance in question is for the base year with four (4) option years.
Period of Performance:
Base Year - January 5, 2018 to January 4, 2019
Option Year 1 - January 5, 2019 to January 4, 2020
Option Year 2 - January 5, 2020 to January 4, 2021
Option Year 3 - January 5, 2021 to January 4, 2022
Option year 4 - January 5, 2022 to January 4, 2023
This notice of intent is a not a request for competitive proposals and no solicitation document exists for the requirement. Sources interested in responding to this notice are required to submit a capability statement that includes management and technical data and cost information, in sufficient detail and with convincing evidence that clearly demonstrates the capability to perform the required work. Capability statements shall not exceed 5 (8.5 x 11 inch) pages using a font size no smaller than 10-point. All capability statements received by the due date of this notice will be considered by the Government. A request for documentation or additional information or submissions that only ask questions will not be considered as an affirmative response. A determination by the Government not to compete based on responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information received will be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement or to proceed with a sole source purchase order.
Capability statements are due by 4:00 PM Local Time, 15 December 2017. Capability statements shall be submitted by e-mail ONLY as a Microsoft Word or Adobe PDF attachment to the following address: merlinda m.labaco.civ@mail.mil.
NO TELEPHONE REQUESTS WILL BE HONORED
Merlinda M Labaco, Contract Specialist, Phone (619) 532-8122, Fax (619) 532-5596, Email merlinda.m.labaco.civ@mail.mil
