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This notice is issued in accordance with FAR 5.101 and 12.102 for commercial item acquisitions: The Defense Health Agency Contracting Activity (DHACA), on behalf of the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense (USAMRICD), intends to award a Firm-Fixed-Price, sole-source contract to JWIP Solutions, LLC. (UEI: TNFGFPLFKG13), for the purchase of comprehensive engineering, assembly, maintenance, and repair services for approximately fifty proprietary animal behavioral test platforms in accordance with the simplified procedures for commercial products and services under Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR 12.201-1). Due to the proprietary nature of the platforms, the contractor must possess specialized knowledge of these systems. These platforms are custom-built systems, each consisting of a touchscreen or lever assembly, pellet dispenser, illuminated food cup with microswitch, and a computer running custom software connected via a USB I/O interface. Each platform has several critical components, often including: touchscreen monitor and/or lever assembly for recording responses pellet dispenser that delivers a calorically complete pellet as a reinforcer food cup illuminated with an LED food cup with a microswitch for recording pellet retrieval notebook computer that controls experimental events and collects data via a custom software program USB I/O interface for controlling and monitoring all switch closures. Pellet dispenser operation, LED illumination, and detection of food cup switch movements are managed by a USB relay I/O interface connected to the computer. When multiple panels are required for an operant assessment, platforms can be wired together via their USB relay I/O interface. In these cases, multiple platforms will be accessible to a single subject, and the behavioral assessment will be conducted with multiple screens, laptops, etc. Platforms are designed to be affixed and secured to current animal caging. These platforms are robust and designed to perform precisely and responsively to interaction across hundreds of individual trials during daily sessions with various, potentially destructive, animal species. Platforms can withstand daily disinfection (i.e. PREempt TRU wipes), and sanitization every 14 days using a nonspecific bactericidal, fungicidal, and virucidal compound. The USAMRICD requires assembly, maintenance, repair, replacement and upgrade services on the behavioral test platforms, with the overall objective to reduce equipment and research loss by providing maintenance and assembly services in a timely manner. No other competitor is known that has this depth of knowledge or ease of maintenance/replacement/manufacture, offering further cost and time savings to the government. Interoperability of existing components is key to experimental continuity. No other provider can ensure that the exact same components will be used or is easily capable of manufacturing identical components to ensure continuity o…

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