The US Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity (USAMRAA) intends to solicit and award a sole source, firm-fixed price contract, under Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 12 Acquisition of Commercial Items, and FAR Part 13 Simplified Acquisition Procedures (SAP), under the sole source authority of FAR Subpart 13.106-1(b) for semi-prep chiral columns. The solicitation is W81XWH-13-T-0283. NAICS 541712/500. Cost of this firm-fixed price requirement is, $22,717.60.
MRICD has an experimental design established and verified using a small scale analytical chiral column containing proprietary separation matrices of Chiral Technologies Inc, 800 North Five Points Rd, West Chester, PA 19380. MRICD has tested several matrices of other vendors claiming to provide similar or identical products. Only the chiral columns from Chiral Technologies, Inc. were found to perform the matrix separations required by a funded on-going MRICD project. In order to advance to a large scale process for column matrices, this procurement must be fulfilled by Chiral Technologies.
This is not a request for competitive quotations and is not to be construed as a
commitment by the Government. However, all responsible sources may submit a capability statement, proposal or quotation, which will be considered by the Agency. No cost will be incurred by the Government for submittals in response to this notice. The Government will consider all responses received within 15 days of the publication of this notice. A determination by the Government not to compete this acquisition based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information received will normally be considered exclusively for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement.
Please direct questions, via email, to, Jacklyn McGurk, EMAIL:
[email protected] before the closing date of FRI 02 AUG 2013 at
1100hrs EST. No telephone calls will be accepted.

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