SPECIAL NOTICE
99 -- NOTICE OF INTENT-SOLE SOURCE AWARD
- Notice Date
- 6/6/2012
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- Contracting Office
- Office of HQ PS (HQ)U.S. Department of EnergyOffice of Headquarters Procurement ServicesMA-641000 Independence Ave., S.W.WashingtonDC20585US
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- DE-SOL-0004184
- Point of Contact
- Jemal G. Williams
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The U.S. Department of Energy, Advanced Research Projects Agency intends to award a contract on a sole source basis to Public Intellectual Property Resource for Agriculture (PIPRA). PIPRA has the unique capability to identify alternative technologies that the awardees will have greater FTO with and provide plasmids containing those components to interested awardees. PIPRA also has the unique capability to evaluate the general intellectual property landscapes for producing fuel molecules in planta. PIPRA will identify all of the key IP in these fields and inform ARPA-E of possible conflicts with the awardees under the ARPA-E Plant-Based Bio-fuel Technologies (PETRO) program technologies. In the case of IP conflicts PIPRA will recommend to ARPA-E alternative approaches to achieve the PETRO goals. PIPRA has a unique capability to review the PETRO projects and recommend to ARPA-E which regulatory agencies will have oversight of the technologies. PIPRA will assess the regulatory concerns of the various agencies with the transgenic organisms being developed by PETRO, and recommend to ARPA-E how performers could streamline the regulatory process by using specific genetic components or genetic engineering strategies. This is a notice of intent and no solicitation is available for this requirement. The applicable authority is 41 U.S.C. 3304 (a) (1), as implemented by FAR 6.302-1, Only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements. Interested parties may identify their interest and capability to respond to the requirements described above. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals. However, all capability statements received within 30 days after the publication date of this synopsis will be considered by the Government. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed contract based upon response to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government.
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