NOTICE OF INTENT TO SOLE SOURCE – LABCORP

This acquisition is for a one-year service contract for the Vantera Nuclear Magnetic Resonance analyzer currently used for patient care testing in the Clinical Center Department of Laboratory Medicine at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center (CC).

•             Product Service Code: 6515 – Medical Instruments, Equipment, and Supplies

•             NAICS Code: 339112 – Surgical and Medical Instrument Manufacturing

•             Place of Performance: Bethesda, MD 20892 USA

POTS: 26-005105

Description:

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 National Institutes of Health (NIH) intends to award a fixed price purchase order to Laboratory Corporation of America, located at 531 S Spring St, Burlington, NC 27215, on a firm fixed price sole source award basis to provide the one-year service contract to the National Institutes of Health.

LabCorp is the sole vendor and the only provider of service and support for the Vantera analyzer. The Vantera analyzer is used to perform lipoprotein particle quantification, including HDL, LDL, VLDL, average size measurements, and determination of small, medium, and large subfractions of each particle. There are currently no other commercial instruments, other than Vantera, which can perform this function.

This acquisition is being conducted using policies unique to the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 13 – Simplified Acquisition Procedures, Subpart 13.106-1(b)(1), For purchases not exceeding the simplified acquisition threshold (SAT), contracting officers may solicit from one source if the contracting officer determines that the circumstance of the contract action deem only one source reasonably available.  Contracts awarded using FAR Part 13-Simplified Acquisition Procedures are exempt from the requirements of FAR Part 6-Competition Requirements.

Interested parties may identify their interest and capabilities in response to this posting. The determination by the Government not to compete the proposed requirement based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government.

Comments to this announcement, referencing this posting number, may be submitted to the NIH, Clinical Center, Office of Purchasing and Contracts, prior to the closing date specified in this announcement, to the attention of Kristin Nagashima, Contract Specialist via email to Kristin.nagashima@nih.gov by May 20, 2026 at 4pm EST.