Description
Center for Health Care Contracting, 2107 17th Street, Fort Sam Houston, Texas, 78234, intends to award a sole source contract to Idaho Technology, Inc. for DNA Reagents & Controls. The proposed contract action is for supplies for which the government intends to solicit and negotiate with only one source under the authority of the Test Program for Certain Commercial Items, FAR 13.501(a)(1)(ii)(Public Law(PL) 104-106, section 4202 of the Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996). The requested reagents are as follows: (1) BA Target 1, 50 each (est.); (2) BA Target 2, 50 each (est.); (3) F. Tularensis, 50 each (est.); (4) Yersinia Pestis 1, 50 each (est.); (5) Yersinia Pestis 2, 50 each (est.); (6) Orthopox, 50 each (est.); (7) Variola, 50 each (est.); (8) DNA Inhibition Control Kit, 75 each (est.); (9) DNA Extraction Control Kit, 150 each (est.); (10) 1-2-3 QFLOW DNA Sample Purification Kit, 10 each (est.); (11) 1-2-3 SCOOP Sample Purification Kit, 10 each (est.); (12) 1-2-3 SWIPE Sample Purification Kit, 10 each (est.); and (13) 1-2-3 VIBE Sample Purification Kit, 10 each (est.). Idaho Technology Inc. (ITI) is the sole source provider and no other supplier or services will satisfy our requirements. ITIs reagents and controls are only compatible with Air Force/Department of Defense (DoD) wide JBAIDS computer systems and software. Furthermore, Idaho Technology Inc. (ITI) is the sole source provider of the required reagents software/hardware for Joint Biological Agent Identification and Diagnostic System (JBAIDS) testing. This configuration is required by DoD to secure Chemical Biological Defense with the use of the JBAIDS. The single lot reagent/control/software/hardware configuration is required by DOD and there is no other approved source. This requirement is for the Wound Biology and Translation Division (WBTR), Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP), Washington, DC 20306-6000. In accordance with FAR Part 13.501(a)(1)(ii)(Public Law(PL) 104-106, section 4202 of the Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996), Center for Health Care Contracting intends to award a sole source contract to Applied Biosystems, LLC for Reagents, under NAICS code 325413.