AWARD
65 -- Solo ME6 6 oz cups and DS306 tab lids for the gypsy moth rearing facility.
- Notice Date
- 1/15/2010
- Notice Type
- Award Notice
- NAICS
- 423490
— Other Professional Equipment and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers
- Contracting Office
- Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Administrative Services Division/Contracting, 100 North 6TH Street, Butler Square 5TH Floor, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 55403
- ZIP Code
- 55403
- Archive Date
- 1/29/2010
- Point of Contact
- Carol R. Dingess, Phone: 612-336-3208
- E-Mail Address
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carol.dingess@aphis.usda.gov
(carol.dingess@aphis.usda.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Award Number
- AG-6395-D-10-0220
- Award Date
- 1/14/2010
- Awardee
- PREMIER PAPER COMPANIES, INC., 357 WEST 36TH STREET, NEW YORK, New York 10018, United States
- Award Amount
- $72,887.50
- Line Number
- 001-002
- Description
- Order# AG-6395-D-10-0220 on GSA Contract# GS-07F-0509T, Awarded to Premier Companies, Inc. $72,887.50 Line 001 - Solo ME6 Cup (350cs x $155.25) Line 002 - Solo DS306 Lids (350cs x $53.00) Award Date 01/14/2010 Requirement competed In accordance with FAR8.404(a)(1), under E-buy RFQ# 428976 BRAND NAME JUSTIFICATION In accordance with 6.302-1 Only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements. (a) Authority. (1)Citations: 10 U.S.C. 2304(c)(1) or 41 U.S.C. 253(c)(1). Justification for Brand Name sole source purchase of Solo ME6 6 oz cups and DS306 tab lids for the gypsy moth rearing facility at the Otis Laboratory The Otis Laboratory (USDA Animal Plant Health Inspection Services, Plant Protection Quarantine - PPQ, Center for Plant Health Science and Technology - CPHST) has been using the combination of the Sweetheart OZ6X polystyrene plastic cup and DS306-04000 paper tab lid for the mass rearing of gypsy moth larvae since the late 1970s. This cup-lid combination was selected after numerous scientific studies were conducted with all containers and lids available at that time. That combination of cup and lid provided the optimum rearing environment for the production of healthy gypsy moth life stages. These life stages are used by PPQ researchers to develop techniques for use in managing the gypsy moth population in the United States. Our mass rearing facility also supplies gypsy moth life stages to state, university, and foreign researchers. The manufacturer (previously Sweetheart, now Solo) recently discontinued the OZ6X cup which had fluted sides, but the replacement cup (Solo ME6) is similar except it does not have fluted sides, and it fits the DS306 paper tab lid which is still manufactured. The cups and lids must be able to be used in the mass rearing equipment at the facility, and must provide the proper environment necessary for healthy development of gypsy moths. The slightest change in cup or lid material, shape, or construction can alter the way the cup interacts with the diet, the humidity inside the cup, the level of air movement into the cup, the space between the diet and the lid that larvae have for development, the fit of the lid preventing larval escapes, the stability of the cup not to tip, the transparency needed to monitor health of developing larvae without opening cups, and the strength of the cup not to collapse under the weight of trays of cups stacked above them. PPQ recently evaluated the new product as well as 4 other similar cups that are currently available. Solo SD5, Solo SDL58, Sweetheart 5 FL OZ 5, and Sweetheart 5 FL OZ 12. No other cups other than Solo or Sweetheart have been tested so far. Although these cups are very similar to the cups we are ordering, because of inadequate transparency, slight differences in shape, volume, and/or the way the lids fit, they could not be used for mass rearing gypsy moth. The Solo ME6 cup passed these qualifications. PPQ further tested the Solo ME6 by rearing gypsy moths in them and allowing them to develop from egg to adult. The gypsy moths developed normally, during this developmental period. They have not tested whether those adults could reproduce and have viable offspring because that would take a minimum of 14 months to determine, and the current supply of cups is near its end. However, other insectaries have utilized this cup for rearing gypsy moth successfully over multiple generations. This cup is designed for food storage and to be resistant to fats, oils, and temperatures from 0 to 180 F, which is necessary since it contains diet that is poured in while hot.
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