The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance (OECA), under the authority of the Federal Acquisition Rules (FAR) Part 13, Simplified Acquisition Procedures, intends to issue a sole source purchase order to PerkinElmer Health Sciences, Inc. for purchase of a One Year Repair Coverage Service Contract for three PerkinElmer instruments. Scope and Capabilities: Repair Coverage Service Contracts are necessary to ensure that these instruments are operating at their optimum performance and to ensure that they are maintained in a safe condition. The instruments are: Optima 5300 DV (2 ea) and one NexION 300D ICP-MS. The requirements for all instruments on Repair Coverage Service Contract include: Service calls are given priority status over non-service agreement holders, all parts (excluding consumables), labor, and travel expenses of the field service engineer to maintain instruments in normal working operation, and free telephone troubleshooting and technical support. NO SOLICITATION OR REQUEST FOR QUOTE IS AVAILABLE: PerkinElmer is the company that manufactures the listed instruments and is the best source of service for all. Performance issues are best known by the service engineers of the manufacturing company. In addition, this kind of information is distributed to PerkinElmer service engineers as a service data bulletin. Service engineers from PerkinElmer are more informed about any developing problems and the subsequent repairs or replacement parts needed in order to repair and improve these instruments as a result of their access to these service bulletins. A service provider other than PerkinElmer may not be able to readily access this information or even acquire any service issue updates relevant to the instrument. All PerkinElmer service engineers have access to applications specialists in their instrumentation area and are able to contact the design engineers for the specific instrument to discuss problems and find solution s. Open access to such specific application and design expertise would not be available through another service provider. Furthermore, PerkinElmer service engineers have extensive training in the instrument software systems. Since these instruments are now controlled by software commands, it is critical that a service provider have a complete understanding of the software. Any other service provider not the manufacturer may not have complete knowledge of this software. Lastly, a rapid service response time is necessary for all of these instrument systems. PerkinElmer has a local service engineer with an excellent service response record making it unlikely that there would be excessive instrument down-time. Notwithstanding, any firm who believes it is capable of meeting EPA's requirement as stated herein may submit a response, which if received within 5 calendar days of the date of this announcement, will be considered. Responses to this posting must be in writing. A det ermination not to compete the proposed Purchase Order based upon the responses is solely within the discretion of the Government. All questions should be directed to Lorraine Lesieur via email to
[email protected] no later than 4:00 pm EST 7 calendar days after the date of this announcement. No telephone inquiries will be accepted.