This is a Sources Sought Notice for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format of FAR subpart 12.6. This is NOT a solicitation for proposals, proposal abstracts or quotations. The purpose of this notice is to obtain information regarding: (1) The availability and capability of qualified small business sources and (2) Whether there are small businesses, HUBZone small businesses, service disabled veteran-owned small businesses, 8(a) small businesses, veteran-owned small businesses, women-owned small businesses or small disadvantaged businesses able to provide a Triple Quad Mass Spectrometer and its components.
Background
The Cell Processing Section (CPS), Department of Transfusion Medicine, NIH CC is an AABB accredited cellular therapy laboratory whose central mission is to provide services to the NIH Institutes to support more than fifty (50) intramural clinical trials. These services include (1) development, evaluation and validation of investigational new drugs for cellular therapies and (2) manufacturer of cellular therapy products for approved clinical trials. The majority of these trials are early phase (I/II) trials not intended to result in the development of a commercial product. To provide these services, CPS operates a core facility for the manufacture, storage and distribution of cellular therapy products. CPS manufactures cellular therapy products from more than 800 collections from patients or healthy donors per year. The products manufactured by the marrow failure, genetic immune disorders and autoimmune diseases.
Method
The NIH Clinical Center anticipates awarding a task/delivery order under the direction of commercial item procedures to one (1) organization that meets the overall requirements listed in the Scope of Work.
Capability
Each response should include the following information:
A. Duns Number
B. Company Name
C. Company Address
D. Company Points of Contact: names, titles, addresses, telephone and email addresses
E. Current GSA Schedule appropriate to this Sources Sought
F. Type of Company (i.e., small businesses, 8(a), woman-owned, veteran owned) as validated via the System for Award Management (SAM). All offerors must be registered in the SAM, located at www.sam.gov
The Government shall consider all responses received prior to the close date of this procurement. Small Businesses are encouraged to respond if they are able to meet the need of this requirement. Written responses to this notice shall contain sufficient documentation to establish bona fide capability to fulfill the requirement. The proposed award date will be scheduled at a later date. Please email Ivan Jones, [email protected] for questions pertaining to this notice. No phone calls please.

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