The National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) is conducting a market survey to determine the availability and technical capability of qualified small business, veteran-owned small business, service-disabled veteran-owned small business or HUBZone small businesses that can provide the following product:

Progenesis Liquid Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS) label-free software - single stand alone user perpetual license. This software shall combine multi fraction experiments to report protein changes across the whole experiment and shall have the ability of co-detecting peaks on aggregate runs to give a complete data set with no missing values. (Quantity 1)

This request is for interested firms with the capability of providing the required position to submit a capability statement to assist the Government in determining in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 19.502-2(b) whether or not this procurement will be set-aside for any of the programs described above. The intended procurement will be classified under North American Industrial Classification (NAICS) code 511210 with a size standard of $25.0M. All respondents are requested to identify their firm's size and type of business. Interested firms responding to this market survey must provide a capability statement demonstrating their experience, skills and capability to fulfill the Government's requirements for the above. The capability statement shall be in sufficient enough detail, but not to exceed 10 pages, so that the Government can determine the experience and capability of your firm to provide the requirements above. Two (2) copies of the capability statement must be received at the following address: 6100 Executive Blvd, Suite 5Z00, Rockville, MD 20852 by no later than 12 NOON local time at designated location June 10, 2011. Responses by fax or e-mail WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. This synopsis is for information and planning purposes and is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government, nor will the Government pay for information solicited.