RESEARCH EQUIPMENT
This is a sources sought announcement only. All responses will be used for market analysis in determining the availability of potential qualified small businesses and large businesses that may be used to determine appropriate acquisition strategy. No solicitation is being issued at this time, but will be issued at a later date. The Columbia VAMC, 6439 Garners Ferry Road, Columbia SC 29209 is seeking commercial sources to provide equipment necessary as outline below. The North American Industry Classification Systems (NAICS) Code proposed for the requirement is 334516, Analytical Laboratory Instruments. The size standard for NAICS 334516 is 500. The Government is interested in all businesses, including and not limited to: small businesses including Small Business, 8(a), Historically Underutilized Business Zone, Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned, and Woman Owned Small Businesses that are interested in performing this requirement. The Government requests interested parties submit a response which includes a brief description of their company's business size (i.e. annual revenues and employee size), business status (i.e., Small Business, SDB, 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, WOB, The Government will use this information in determining its small business set-aside decision. Interested firms are requested to provide their aforementioned information, along with interest and capability statements, no later than 30 June 2014 AT 0900HRS EST. No pricing input is being requested. This Sources Sought Notice is issued for the purpose of market research in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation Part 10. Additional information regarding this requirement will be posted for viewing on FedBizOpps at https://www.fbo.gov/ as it becomes available. All potential offerors are reminded that lack of registration in the System for Award Management (https://www.sam.gov) will make an offeror ineligible for contract award. NOTE: It is the responsibility of all potential offeror's to monitor the FedBizOpps web site for release of any future synopses or release of the solicitation and any associated amendments. Submissions to this notice may be emailed to Joseph M. Locke, Network Contracting Office 7 at [email protected]. When emailing your response, please note that due to increased firewall protections some emails may be blocked; therefore, follow-up via telephone (if an acknowledgement is not received back via email) is strongly recommended to ensure receipt of your submission by the Government. Any information provided by industry to the Government as a result of this sources sought synopsis is strictly voluntary. Responses will not be returned. No entitlements to payment of direct or indirect costs or charges to the Government will arise as a result of contractor submission of responses, or the Government's use of such information.
# Materials and Services Provided
1 Set of six shRNAs from Thermo Fisher Scientific
2 Lentiviral vector production: non-concentrated vectors
3 Lentiviral vector production, concentration, purification and tittering, concentrated preps-20uL
4 Lentiviral vector production, concentration, purification, tittering, and safety check up for in vivo, concentrated preps-100uL
5 Screening: transduction into NIH3T3 cells, propagation and harvest for Western Blot experiment
6 Establishing stable cell lines: transduction of NIH3T3 cells, selection with puromycin for two weeks, recovering, clonal expansion, analysis of GFP-expressing cells, propagation, harvest, preparation for Western Blot
JOSEPH LOCKE
803-776-4000, EXT: 7814
[email protected]
[email protected]
