--Notice to Award Sole Source

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Research & Development (ORD) in accordance with the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 6.302.1 that "Only one responsible source and no other supplies and services will satisfy agency requirements", intends to award a sole source purchase order to the Applied Biosystems, LLC for the renewal of the maintenance for the Sequence Detection System for the period of performance of 06/19/2012 to 06/18/2013. It has been determined that this acquisition be awarded on a sole source basis to insure that the maintenance of the Sequence Detection System is not obstructed. The National American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this requirement is: 811219. The EPA has only one known source for this procurement that is in the government's best interest. If there are any other potential sources, please submit your capability statement via email to the U.S. EPA c/o Elaine Scott at: [email protected] no later than 3:00 pm Monday May 7, 2012. NO CALLS PLEASE