This is a notice of intent, not a request for a quotation. A solicitation document will not be issued and quotations will not be requested.
The Government intends to award a fixed price purchase order to Life Technologies Corporation, Grand Island, New York, 14072.
The Department of Transfusion Medicine (DTM) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center (CC), Bethesda, MD has a requirement to procure the supply listed below:
Item Number: 40203D
Description: Dynabeads CD3/CD28 CTS 10ml
Unit of Issue: Vial
Quantity: 20
The Cell Processing Section (CPS) is responsible for the manufacture of human cells and tissue-based products utilized in phase I/II clinical protocols for transplantation, adoptive immunotherapy and gene therapy conducted in the Clinical Center at the NIH. Cell processing procedures are tailored to each of the 30 or more different patient-care clinical research protocols supported. Dynabeads are reagents used in the preparation of highly purified unique immunotherapy products for treatments of critically ill patients. A reagent is "a substance used to detect or measure another substance or to convert on substance into another by means of the reaction which is causes." Patients are enrolled in approved clinical protocols. The Dynabeads are used for stimulation of cells in culture.
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