# NOTICE OF INTENT-NMR Probes

Canonical: https://abierto.us/opportunities/nb6860802400677

- Solicitation number: NB686080-24-00677
- Notice type: Special notice (first published as sources sought)
- Status: Awarded to Doty Scientific Inc.
- Department: Department of Commerce
- Agency: National Institute of Standards and Technology
- Contracting office: Department of Commerce NIST (1333ND)
- NAICS: 334516 Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing
- Product or service code: 6515 Medical and Surgical Instruments, Equipment, and Supplies
- Place of performance: Boulder, Colorado
- County: Boulder County (FIPS 08013). https://abierto.us/counties/boulder-county-co-08013
- City: Boulder. https://abierto.us/cities/boulder-co-0807850
- First posted: January 9, 2024
- Last posted: January 17, 2024
- SAM.gov: https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/1eaef463103c4dadad795ce5a05de9be/view

## Description

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Acquisition Management Division intends to negotiate with Doty Scientific, Inc. located in Columbia, SC, on a sole source basis under the authority of FAR Subpart 13.106-1(b), soliciting from a single source, for probes. Specific Requirements are as follows:

RF Probe 1 3T 1H/X/Lock NMR RF probe with VT, reduced 13C background, 1H linewidth of 0.7 Hz, accepting 5mm NMR tubes RF Probe 2 0.55T 1H/X/Lock NMR RF probe with VT, reduced 13C background, 1H linewidth of 1 Hz, accepting 5mm NMR tubes RF Probe 3 3T microimaging NMR RF probe, accepting 20mm sample apparatus, quadrature RF design, high RF homogeneity of 2% of central 12mm NAICS Code is 334516 –Analytical Laboratory Instrument, with a Size Standard of 1,000 employees.

NIST anticipates negotiating and awarding a firm-fixed-price purchase order to Doty Scientific, Inc. for this requirement. Interested parties that can demonstrate they could satisfy the requirement listed above for NIST must clearly and unambiguously identify their capability to do so in writing on or before the response date for this notice. This notice of intent is not a solicitation.

Information submitted in response to this notice will be used solely to determine whether competitive procedures could be used for this acquisition. If competitive procedures are not used it is estimated that an award will be issued by 3/4/2024. Any questions regarding this notice must be submitted in writing via email to angela.hitt@nist.gov. All responses to this notice of intent must be submitted to angela.hitt@nist.gov no later than the date and time provided herein this posting.

**JUSTIFICATION FOR OTHER THAN FULL AN OPEN COMPETITION:** Only Doty Scientific can provide liquid probes that will work with the system NIST has. Failure to process this request would cause NIST not to be able to improve its ability to provide measurements to the medical imaging community.

## Award on USAspending

- Recipient: Doty Scientific Inc. (UEI ZEWHLT5Y7H33)
- Contract: 1333ND24PNB680072, purchase order
- Obligated: $213,850.00
- Competition: Not Competed Under SAP, 1 offers received
- Link: solicitation number NB6860802400677 equals the FPDS solicitation identifier; same awarding office 1333ND (high confidence)
- Record: https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_1333ND24PNB680072_1341_-NONE-_-NONE-/


## Publications

- January 9, 2024: Sources sought, due January 16, 2024 at 3:00 PM EST. Notice 0dcacc2f488a494e8bda59ced4296d1c. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/0dcacc2f488a494e8bda59ced4296d1c/view
- January 17, 2024: Special notice, due January 29, 2024 at 3:00 PM EST. Notice 1eaef463103c4dadad795ce5a05de9be. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/1eaef463103c4dadad795ce5a05de9be/view

## Points of contact

- Angela Hitt, angela.hitt@nist.gov

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