The US Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC), Environmental Laboratory (EL), Environmental Processes Branch (EP-P) has a requirement provide maintenance services for the FT-IR located in building 3299 at ERDC, Vicksburg, Mississippi. The FT-IR was purchased from Thermo Electron North America, LLC under contract W912HZ-11-P-0275. The new service contract must provide one preventative maintenance visit and unlimited parts/labor/travel for repairs in case of instrument malfunction during the contract duration. Any parts or upgrades that would be installed as a result of the services must coordinate, connect, or interface with the existing system to prevent loss of instrument function and data quality. Thermo Fisher Scientific is the only company with access to performance verified component parts, spare parts, software, technical support, upgrades and engineering resources to maintain the original operating specifications for Thermo Fisher Scientific ‘s FT-IR. Thermo Fisher Scientific's Field Service Engineers (FSE's) are the only certified and factory trained engineers available to service the instrument, and are part of an organization that is ISO certified. This notice is not a request for competitive quotes or proposals. A solicitation will not be issued. However, all responsible sources may submit a capability statement, proposal, or quotation, which shall be considered by the agency. The information submitted must be provided in sufficient detail to demonstrate the vendor's ability to fulfill this requirement. The contractor must also provide a description of their past experience in fulfilling requirements which are the same or similar to this requirement and references for each. Information received will be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. A determination by the Government not to compete this requirement on a full and open competition basis, based upon responses to this notice, is solely within the discretion of the government. Oral communications are not acceptable in response to this notice. Responses to this requirement may be submitted to Christy Love at
[email protected]. The solicitation number shall be included in the subject line of the e-mail submission. Responses must be received no later than 5 days from the posted date of this notice.