Synopses – Notice of Intent to Award Sole Source to Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) – Diagnostics and Countermeasures Branch (DCB)

Date:  4 August 2021

Year:   2021

Contracting Office Zip Code: _209010___

Classification Code – 541714 - Research and Development in Biotechnology (Except Nanotechnology)

Contracting Office Address – USA Medical Research Acquisition Activity, 820 Chandler Street, Fort Detrick, MD 21702-5014

Subject: Notice of Intent to Sole Source a Contract to with Brooks Life Sciences, Inc., 15 Elizabeth Drive, Chelmsford, MA 01824

Pre-Solicitation Number: PANMRA-21-P0000 006283

Closing Response Date: Notice of Intent:  Friday, 6 August 2020, 11 am EST

Contact Point: Nathaniel Reus at [email protected] / Brenda Mena at [email protected]

Contract Award Date: _unknown____________________

Contractor:  Brooks Life Sciences, Inc.

Description: The Diagnostics and Countermeasures Branch (DCB) at WRAI is seeking a non-personal, Firm Fixed Price service contract for acquiring comprehensive inventory, consolidation/defragmentation, and audit repository services for U.S. government biospecimen/biosample collections archived within liquid nitrogen freezer units at Rockville, MD.

This notice of intent is for information purposes only.  All sources eligible to provide this service must respond in writing. Responses must be supported with clear and convincing evidence to clearly articulate the ability to provide services outlined above.  A request for documentation will not be considered as an affirmative response.  If no responses are received, within 15 days after publication of this notice, to the effect that comparable services are available, and that it is more advantageous to the Government than obtaining these services through a sole-source contract, then a sole source acquisition award will be made.

Place of Contract Performance – Silver Spring / Rockville, Maryland

Set-aside Status: Other than full and open competition not previously addressed