The U.S. Army Contracting Command - Aberdeen Proving Ground (ACC-APG), Aberdeen Proving Ground, Natick Contracting Division in support of the U.S. Army Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center (NSRDEC) Warfighter Directorate intends to award a Firm Fixed Price purchase order on a sole source basis to Covance Laboratories Inc. (Covance), located at 3301 Kinsman Blvd., Madison, WI 53704-2523, under the authority as prescribed in FAR 13.106(b)(1). The requirement is for further vitamin content analysis in compressed bars and dispersed drink mixes as a follow-on to Covance's previous effort for the same analysis.

No other source for this service can be used as the Government's requirement is for the further analysis of the same production lot analyzed in the vendor's previous effort in order to track vitamin degradation for a full five years. Specimen vitamin levels for the required time frame must be analyzed for the same production lot in precisely the same manner as for the previous analysis in order to ensure consistency and comparability of data and to produce valid degradation-over-time models. .

The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) for this requirement is 541380 and the size standard is $15.0M.

THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS. No solicitation document is available.

Interested parties may identify their interest and capability by sending responses regarding this requirement to the Army Contracting Command - Aberdeen Proving Ground CCAP-SCN, Natick Contracting Division via e-mail ONLY to [email protected] no later than 4:00 p.m. EDT 27 November 2017. The U.S. government will not pay for any information or administrative cost incurred in response to this Notice. All costs associated with responding to this Notice will be solely at the expense of the interested party.

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