In accordance with FAR 13.106-1(b)(1),the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) intends to negotiate a sole source, fixed price purchase order under Simplified Acquisition Procedures with AB SCIEX, LLC, 353 Hatch Drive, Foster City, CA 94404 for the acquisition of a 1- year Maintenance Service agreement for a AB SCIEX MDS Sciex API Model 4000 MS/MS High performance Liquid Chromatograph/Tendem Mass Spectrometer (LC/MS/MS/ System.. AB SCIEX, LLC is the manufacturer and sole distributor of equipment. The agreement shall include: (1) Guaranteed Priority Response, Service at site within 2 business days; (2) Factory-trained and Certified engineers; (3) Service engineers receive continuous factory training and certification; (4) All labor and Travel Fees included; (5) All labor and travel fees are included for repair and planned maintenance; (6) Two Scheduled Planned Maintenance Visits; (7) Covered Replacement Parts, All parts are certified and guaranteed to optimize inst ruments performance and reliability, All parts are manufactured by AB SCIEX, LLC or AB SCIEX, LLC direct vendors; (8) Priority Technical Assistance Center support; (9) Immediate telephone and email access to senior factory-trained engineer instrument technical support; (10) Priority application technical phone support; (11) Immediate telephone access to application technical support; (12) Smart Monitoring; (13) Remote access capability for collaborative troubleshooting, diagnostics and problem solving with real-time error reporting notifications; (14) System performance monitored 24 hours a day, 365 days a year resulting in maximum uptime. Only AB SCIEX, LLC service engineers have full and exclusive access to instrument diagnostics software and have full and exclusive access to AB SCIEX, LLC latest technical development, repair procedures, application updates, and planned maintenance procedures. The EPA has identified AB SCIEX, LLC as the only vendor capable of satisfying th is requirement. NO SOLICITATION OR REQUEST FOR QUOTE (RFQ) IS AVAILABLE. Notwithstanding, any firm that believes it is capable of meeting EPA's requirement as stated herein may submit a capability statement by the response date indicated above. Timely responses will be considered. Responses to this posting must be in writing and provide clear and convincing evidence that competition would be advantageous to the Government. A determination not to compete the proposed purchase order based upon the responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. All questions should be directed to Pamela E. Smith via the e-mail [email protected]; telephone calls will not be accepted.

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