NESTOR CELL AUTOMATION DISPENSING UNIT - RUO

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) intends to negotiate and award a contract without providing for full and open competition to Cellaven for the NESTOR CELL AUTOMATION DISPENSING UNIT - RUO. The Cellaven NESTOR system is uniquely capable of delivering a compact, fully automated, sterile cell culture solution with integrated refrigeration and programmable workflows specifically designed for sensitive iPSC cultures. • The contract will include all applicable provisions and clauses in effect through the Federal Acquisition Circular (FAC) 2005-99-1, July 16, 2018. • The acquisition is conducted under the procedures as prescribed in FAR subpart 13-Simplified Acquisition Procedures at an amount not exceeding the simplified acquisition threshold ($350,000). • Interested parties may identify their interest and capability to respond to this notice, but the Government may determine not to compete this proposed contract based upon responses to this notice. • Responses to this notice shall contain sufficient information to establish the interested parties' bona-fide capabilities for fulfilling the requirement and include a technical proposal, a cost-price proposal, the period of performance, the Unique Entity ID (UEI), the Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN), and the certification of business size.