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Qiagen Research Products The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Office of Acquisition Management in Washington, D.C. intends to establish a sole source Blanket Purchase Agreement under authority of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Subpart 6.302-1, Other Than Full and Open Competition procedures and FAR Part 13, Simplified Acquisition Procedures, for the acquisition of Qiagen Research Products. The Office of Research and Development (ORD), National Exposure Research Laboratory (NERL) located in Cincinnati, OH has ongoing research that requires the list of products below. Agency scientists have designed numerous techniques and methods using this vendor?s products. The use of kits and reagents from other vendors will produce results that cannot be directly compared to previous data. Using the products below will provide consistency, thus maintaining the integrity and validity of the scientific methods. If other vendor?s products were used, they would have to evaluate and re-optimize Agency techniques which would result in a waste of significant resources, both funding and time. The following are the required products:  QIAGEN OneStep RT-PCR Kit, Catalog #210212  QIAquick Gel Extraction Kit, Catalog #28704  QIAamp DNA Blood Mini Kit, Catalog #51104  Buffer AVL, Catalog # 19073  MiniElute PCR Purification Kit, Catalog #28004  QIAamp DNA Blood Mini Kit, Catalog #51106  QIAamp DNA Blood Maxi Kit, Catalog #51194  QIAamp DNA Mini Kit, Catalog # 51306 The National American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for the requirement is 334516, Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing. EPA has only one known source for this procurement that is in the Government?s best interest. Any firm that is capable of meeting the EPA requirements described herein may submit a response; which, if received within seven (7) calendar days of the date of this announcement, will be reviewed for consideration. Responses to this posting must be submitted in writing via e-mail only. A determination not to compete the described requirement based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Federal Government. Any questions or comments should be directed via e-mail to Wanda Carrier at [email protected]. NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE.

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