SAM #75N98027Q00062

NIH NIMH seeks five-year maintenance and service for a Leica SP8 microscope

NIH’s National Institute of Mental Health is seeking a five-year service agreement for a government-owned Leica SP8 confocal/multiphoton microscope. - Government buyer: National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), Office of the Director, Office of Acquisitions. - OEM: Leica; the solicitation is brand-name-or-equal. No other vendors are named in the provided materials. - Equipment: One Leica SP8 Confocal/Multiphoton microscope, equipment number 12257618, serial number 8110001929; model description: SP8 MP DIVE 405 TAN HyD (Falcon up 2018). No part number is specified. - Service requested: Five agreement years of premium preventive maintenance and service, including one annual inspection, priority support, unlimited business-hours emergency repairs, labor and travel, OEM-certified replacement repair parts, and software updates. Consumable parts are excluded. - Service requirements: Work includes inspection, cleaning, lubrication, repairs or replacement of worn parts, adjustment, calibration, and testing. Personnel must be manufacturer-trained, and service providers must meet FDA and Health Canada compliance requirements. Service is at the NIMH facility in Bethesda, Maryland. - Period of performance: One 12-month base year plus four 12-month option years; annual service agreement, five years total if all options are exercised.

Description

(i)This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance withFAR Subpart 12.6, as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. Thisannouncement constitutes the only solicitation; proposals are being requested, and a separatewritten solicitation will not be issued.(ii)The solicitation number is 75N98027Q00062. This solicitation is issued as a Request forQuotation (RFQ). This acquisition is being conducted on a "brand name or equal" basis inaccordance with FAR 11.104 and the provision at FAR 52.211-6, Brand Name or Equal.Offerors proposing an "equal" product must clearly identify the item by brand name (if any),make, and model number, and must provide sufficient descriptive literature and technicaldocumentation to demonstrate that the proposed product meets all salient physical, functional,and performance characteristics listed in Section (v) of this solicitation. Offers of "equal"products that fail to clearly identify the product or that fail to demonstrate compliance with thesalient characteristics may be rejected as non-responsive.This acquisition is conducted under the authority of FAR 12.603, Streamlined Solicitation forCommercial Products or Commercial Services, and is not expected to exceed the simplifiedacquisition threshold.The National Institutes of Health (NIH), Office of the Director, Office of Acquisitions, seeks toaward a firm fixed-price to the responsible offeror whose proposal represents the best value tothe Government.(iii)The solicitation document and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular March 2026.

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