SOLICITATION NUMBER: NB646020-15-02867

CONTACT POINTS: Erik Frycklund, Contract Specialist

CONTACT INFO: [email protected]

DESCRIPTION:

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), intends to negotiate, on a sole source basis, under authority of FAR 13.106-1(b)(1), with LECO Corporation of St. Joseph, MI for the repair of a Pegasus (TOFMS) Time-of-flight mass spectrometry equipment.

A Sole Source procurement is determined to be in the Governments best interest based on the following: Only Leco Corp has the capability to provide this authorized repair service for a NIST owned Leco Pegasus GCxGC/TOF-MS (serial number 3276, NIST property number 626607). Only Leco engineers are certified to perform repairs on this equipment.

Delivery and repair shall be FOB Destination, Gaithersburg, MD, and is required within 4 weeks after receipt of order.

The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this acquisition is 811219, and the size standard is $20.5M.

No solicitation package will be issued. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive quotations; however, the Government will consider responses received by 12:00 pm EST May 5th, 2015.

A determination by the Government not to compete the proposed acquisition based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information received will normally be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement.