49--Maintenance Agreement

The US Environmental Protection Agency, Emergency Response Service Center on behalf of the Office of Research and Development (ORD)in RTP, NC intends to award a sole source purchase order to Luminex Corporation for the renewal of a one year "Gold 360" maintenance agreement. Luminex instruments employ proprietary software that can only be repaired by Luminex service members. The instruments are critical to the biomonitoring and exposure projects done on ORD. The NAICS code used shall be: 541711 under FAR Part 13 and FAR Part 12. Award must be made to Luminex in order to maintain warranties on the various instrument pieces. The period of performance shall be July 1, 2013 to June 30, 2014. No payments for information, capability statements, etc. will result from this announcement. This announcement also in no way requests any form of proposal or quote. Please refer all responses, comments and questions to the Contracting Officer at email address: [email protected] ov no later than 12 noon EST, July 1, 2013. NO PHONE CALLS WILL BE ACCEPTED