NOTICE OF INTENT

This is a notice of intent to award a sole source contract.  The award is to be a Firm-Fixed Price contract pursuant to Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 13.106-1(b)(1)(i), “Contracting officers may solicit from one source if the contracting officer determines that the circumstances of the contract action deem only one source reasonably available.”  The contracting officer has determined that only one source, Nano Science Instruments, is capable of meeting the requirement without the Government incurring significant additional costs.

The Department of the Air Force has a requirement for one Phenom XL G2 SEM (Scanning Electron Microscope) with EDS (Energy dispersive x-ray spectrometer). The Phenom XL G2 SEM must be the same equipment that is used by VAFB for collaboration. This is detailed in the attached Statement of Work.

The NAICS code for this requirement is 334516 (Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing), with a size standard of 1,000 employees.  This notice of intent to award a sole source contract is not a request for competitive proposals.  A Request for Quotation (RFQ) will be released for this requirement in the near future. 

Address questions regarding this notice of intent to TSgt Mark Baker by phone at (937) 257-7855 or via e-mail at [email protected].

Any correspondence sent via e-mail must not exceed 5 megabytes, including attachments, and contain the subject line “FA8601-21-Q-0125 Bench Top SEM EDS”. E-mails with compressed files are not permitted.  Note that e-mail filters at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base are designed to filter e-mails without subject lines or with suspicious subject lines or contents (i.e., .exe or .zip files).  Therefore, if the specified subject line is not included, the e-mail may not get through the e-mail filters. Also be advised that .zip or .exe files are not allowable attachments and may be deleted by the email filters at Wright-Patterson.  If sending attachments with email, ensure only .pdf, .doc, .docx, .xls or .xlsx documents are sent.  The email filter may delete any other form of attachments. 

A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed contract based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government.