*UPDATED* NOTICE OF INTENT TO SOLE SOURCE: Preventative Maintenance Services for Various Government-owned Leica Imaging Equipment

The purpose of this update is to include additional Leica imaging devices and to extend the response date to 12/23/2024.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Cancer Institute (NCI), Center for Cancer Research (CCR), requires preventative maintenance and emergency services for seven (7) government-owned Leica imaging devices and their associated components:

1) One (1) Leica Stellaris 5 confocal microscope at the Lymphoid Malignancies Branch (LyMB) is used extensively in support of ongoing cancer research, particularly to investigate the pathogenesis of lymphoid malignancies and to identify therapeutic vulnerabilities in B-cell lymphoma.

2) One (1) Leica CellDIVE microscope .... Read More

The National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Cancer Institute (NCI), Center for Cancer Research (CCR), requires preventative maintenance and emergency services for three (3) government-owned Leica imaging devices and their associated components:

1) One (1) Leica Stellaris 5 confocal microscope at the Lymphoid Malignancies Branch (LyMB) is used extensively in support of ongoing cancer research, particularly to investigate the pathogenesis of lymphoid malignancies and to identify therapeutic vulnerabilities in B-cell lymphoma.

2) One (1) Leica CellDIVE microscope used by the Thoracic and Gastrointestinal (GI) Malignancies Branch (TGMB) for advanced multiplex, multimode, two-dimensional, and three-dimensional imaging for spatial-transcriptomic analysis .... Read More