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General Information

  • Contract Opportunity Type: Sources Sought (Original)
  • Original Published Date: Jan 30, 2025 02:06 pm EST
  • Original Response Date: Feb 06, 2025 02:00 pm EST
  • Inactive Policy: 15 days after response date
  • Original Inactive Date: Feb 21, 2025
  • Initiative:
    • None

Classification

  • Original Set Aside:
  • Product Service Code:
  • NAICS Code:
    • 325199 - All Other Basic Organic Chemical Manufacturing
  • Place of Performance:
    Gaithersburg , MD 20899
    USA

Description

THIS IS A SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE ONLY.

Requests for copies of a solicitation will not receive a response. This Notice is for planning purposes only and is not a Request for Proposal or Request for Quotation of an obligation on the part of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for conducting a follow-on acquisition. NIST does not intend to award a contract on the basis of this Notice, or otherwise pay for the information requested. No entitlement or payment of direct or indirect costs or charges by NIST will arise as a result of submission of responses to this Notice and NISTs use of such information. NIST recognizes that proprietary components, interfaces, equipment, and clearly mark restricted or proprietary data and present it as an addendum to the non-restricted/non-proprietary information. In the absence of such identification, NIST will assume to have unlimited rights to all technical data in the information paper.

NO SOLICITATION DOCUMENTS EXIST AT THIS TIME.

Requirement:

The Mass Spectrometry Data Center (MSDC) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Material Measurement Laboratory (MML), Biomolecular Measurement Division (BMD) is responsible for the development of the NIST/National Institutes of Health (NIH)/Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Mass Spectral Library and Tandem Mass Spectral Library. To carry out this responsibility, the MSDC has a requirement for a large variety of chemicals. These chemicals are organic compounds of varying types and do not belong to a specific class; they are used for Mass Spectrometry.

NIST is seeking information from small and large business suppliers/manufacturers of chemicals, who can deliver at least 75% of the chemicals listed in Attachment 1 – DRAFT Chemical List, identified by molecular weight and structure/identifier (InChIKey, InChI, SMILES, CNC_ID, Structure_ID) in quantities not less than 1 mg. Larger quantities may be provided if sufficiently small quantities are not available due to properties of the chemical such as volatility or special hazards, but not more than 1 g.

Interested parties shall describe the capabilities of their organization as it relates to the requirement described above. NIST anticipates issuing a Request for Quotation in the first quarter of FY25 and awarding a contract in the second quarter of FY25.

The small business size standard associated with 325199 NAICS code is 1,250 employees. Based on the estimated value of the requirement, the Non-Manufacturing Rule may apply. As such, if you are a small business under the associated NAICS code, you must either provide information detailing:

  1. whether your company manufactures the chemicals; or
  2. whether your company will be obtaining the chemicals from another small business manufacturer of the chemicals.

After results of this market research are obtained and analyzed, NIST may conduct a competitive procurement and subsequently award a contract. Companies that can provide such items are requested to email a written response describing their abilities to Sadaf.Afkhami@nist.gov no later than the response date for this sources sought notice.

The following information is requested to be provided as part of the response to this sources sought notice:

  1. Name, Address, Unique Entity Identifier (issued by SAM.gov), CAGE code, and point of contact information of your company.
  2. Any information on the company’s small business certifications, if applicable.
  3. Description of your company’s capabilities as they relate to the item described in this notice.
  4. A description of your company’s previous experience providing the item described in this notice.
  5. Indication of whether the item described in this notice are currently offered via your company’s GSA Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) contracts, Government-wide Acquisition Contracts (GWACs), or other existing Government-wide contract vehicles; and, if so, the contract number(s) for those vehicles.
  6. Any other relevant information that is not listed above which the Government should consider in finalizing its market research.
  7. Place of Manufacture (foreign or domestic, and name of country if foreign) of the items described in the notice.

Responses are limited to a total of twelve (12) pages. The responses must be in MS Word format.  Pages shall be 8½-inch x 11-inch, using Times New Roman 11 Point Font.  Each page shall have adequate margins on each side (at least one inch) of the page. Header/footer information (which does not include any information to be analyzed) may be included in the 1" margin space.

Contact Information

Contracting Office Address

  • ACQUISITION MANAGEMENT DIVISION 100 BUREAU DR.
  • GAITHERSBURG , MD 20899
  • USA

Primary Point of Contact

Secondary Point of Contact





History

  • Feb 21, 2025 11:55 pm ESTSources Sought (Original)