Benchmark/ 320 cases x 16 oz bottles of Isopropyl Alcohol Trigger-spray

INTRODUCTION

This is not a request for a quotation. A solicitation document will not be issued and quotations will not be requested.

THIS IS A PRE-SOLICITATION NON-COMPETITIVE (NOTICE OF INTENT) SYNOPSIS TO AWARD A CONTRACT OR PURCHASE ORDER WITHOUT PROVIDING FOR FULL OR OPEN COMPETITION (INCLUDING BRAND-NAME).

The National Institutes of Health (NIH), Clinical Center (CC), Office of Purchasing and Contracts (OPC) on behalf of the Department of Transfusion Medicine (DTM), Clinical Center (CC) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) intends to negotiate and award a contract without providing for full and open competition (including brand-name) to:

Benchmark Products, LLC.

1605 S Waukegan Rd.

Waukegan, IL, 60085-6729

NORTH AMERICAN INDUSTRY CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM (NAICS) CODE

The intended procurement is classified under NAICS code 339113 with a Size Standard 750.


REGULATORY AUTHORITY
The resultant contract will include all applicable provisions and clauses in effect through the Federal Acquisition Circular (FAC) 2022-04 January 30, 2022. This acquisition is conducted under the procedures as prescribed in FAR subpart 13-Simplified Acquisition Procedures at an amount not exceeding the simplified acquisition threshold.


STATUTORY AUTHORITY
This acquisition is conducted under the authority of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 13-Simplified Acquisition Procedures, Subpart 13.106-1(b)(1), Soliciting from a single source and is expected to not exceed the simplified acquisition threshold. Contracts awarded using FAR Part 13-Simplified Acquisition Procedures are exempt from the requirements of FAR Part 6-Competition Requirements.

GENERAL INFORMATION

1. Title: Benchmark/ 320 cases x 16 oz bottles of Isopropyl Alcohol Trigger-spray

2. Background Information; The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the nation’s foremost federally funded biomedical research institution.  It is comprised of twenty-seven Institutes and Centers.  The NIH Clinical Center (CC) is the onsite hospital for the NIH campus, providing full support for clinical studies in inpatient and outpatient settings.  The NIH CC is an 870,000 square-foot facility with the capacity to serve 240 inpatient beds and 82 day-hospital stations.

The Cell Processing Section (CPS), Department of Transfusion Medicine, NIH CC is an AABB accredited cellular therapy laboratory whose central mission is to provide services to the NIH Institutes to support more than 50 intramural clinical trials.  These services include (1) development, evaluation, and validation of investigational new drugs (INDs) for cellular therapies and (2) manufacture of cellular therapy products for approved clinical trials.  The majority of these trials are early phase (I/II) trials not intended to result in the development of a commercial product.  To provide these services, CPS operates a core facility (Charles S. Carter Cellular Therapy Laboratory) for the manufacture, storage, and distribution of cellular therapy products.  CPS manufactures cellular therapy products from more than 800 collections from patients or healthy donors per year.  The products manufactured by the laboratory are used to treat NIH CC patients with cancer, hematological malignancies, marrow failure, genetic immune disorders and autoimmune diseases.  All products are manufactured using good manufacturing practices (GMP).  The NIH protocols are institutional review board (IRB) approved and in the case of INDs approval by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for treatment of human subjects.  Each subject must consent to participate in a NIH Clinical Research Study. 

3. Purpose or Objective: To purchase Isopropyl Alcohol Trigger-spray (IPA) to aid in the required cleaning of laboratory equipment and materials.  IPA is used and required in standard operating procedures to clean items such as the biosafety cabinet, all materials, and other numerous equipment.

4. Performance of period : June 25, 2022 thru January 28,2022

CONTRACTOR REQUIREMENTS (SCOPE OF WORK)

1. The contractor will supply 40 cases (12 per case) of IPA per month during the performance period June 25, 2022 thru January 28,2022

2. Shelf Life-Minimum – shelf life is required to be six months from the date of receipt unless Cell Processing previously agrees to another arrangement.

                             

3. The reagents and disposables may include but not limited to those listed below:

• IPA Trigger-spray, ST, 16oz, 12/C

The Contractor shall supply technical support for all supplies and their performance characteristics at no additional cost to the Government.

Delivery:

This requirement is for  8-month: 06/1/2022-1/31/2022: 320 cases

Delivery Schedule: Per Month.

June 29, 2022              40 Cases

July 27, 2022              40 Cases

August 31, 2022         40 Cases

September 28, 2022   40 Cases

October 26, 2022        40 Cases

November 30, 2022    40 Cases

December 28, 2022 40 Cases

January 28, 2023     40 Cases

The Company shall deliver the supplies on a monthly basis.  Each month the company shall ship 40 cases of IPA without any notification from the Center of Cellular.  Delivery service will include inside delivery to the Cell Processing Section.

These supplies will be shipped for delivery Monday through Thursday to:

         NIH/CC/DTM/Cell Processing Section

         10 Center Drive

           Bldg. 10/ Rm. 3C720

            Bethesda, MD 20892-1288

            Attention:  Mohammed Khan

The contractor shall bear the cost of replacement for reagents found to be damaged or defective upon receipt by NIH or for incorrect or incomplete shipments.

Government Responsibilities

1.       The Center Cellular Engineering shall use the reagents in accordance with manufacturer’s package inserts and approved IND/IDE uses if applicable.

2.       The NIH CC Center Cellular Engineering shall inspect shipments upon receipt and report any damage, defects or errors in shipment to the contractor. 

CONTRACTING WITHOUT PROVIDING FOR FULL OR OPEN COMPETITION (INCLUDING BRAND-NAME) DETERMINATION

This system is on site and has been validated for use on CC patients.  It would be detrimental to the government to attempt to change systems and quite impossible as these instruments are proprietary and only distributed by Benchmark Products, LLC.  With the continuation of using the same system will also help reduces the risk of a disruption in patient care. The determination by the Government to award a contract without providing for full and open competition is based upon the market research conducted as prescribed in FAR Part 10-Market Research.


CLOSING STATEMENT

This synopsis is not a request for competitive proposals. However, interested parties may identify their interest and capability to respond to this notice. Responses to this notice shall contain sufficient information to establish the interested parties' bona-fide capabilities for fulfilling the requirement and include a technical proposal, a cost-price proposal, the period of performance, the Dun & Bradstreet Number (DUNS), the Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN), and the certification of business size. All offerors must have an active registration in the System for Award Management (SAM) www.sam.gov.
 

A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed contract based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. The information received will normally be considered solely for the purposes of determining whether to proceed on a non-competitive basis or to conduct a competitive procurement.
All responses must be received by May 24th, 2022, 11:30 AM Eastern time and must reference solicitation number 22-007839. Responses may be submitted electronically to Mrs. Grace Wong-Darko, Contracting Specialist at Grace.Wong-Darko@nih.gov. Fax responses will not be accepted.

"All responsible sources may submit a capability statement, proposal, or quotation, which shall be considered by the agency."