University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Announcement of a Sole Source Purchase
Renewal entered into with:Vendor: Hitachi High Technologies America Incorporated
Amount: An estimated $64,763.40
Renewal: 2nd of 2, 7/1/2017 through 6/30/2018
Pricing Changes:
None
Service/Product Changes:
None
Sole Source Status:
The University of Illinois, through its Materials Research Lab, verifies to the best of it knowledge and available information that the vendor is still the sole or sole economically feasible source for this renewal.
Potential Future Renewals:
None
The State Purchasing Officer for this procurement is now John Knittle.
The University award process may be delayed up to thirty days as this award goes through a state approval process.
Renewal entered into with:Vendor: Hitachi High Technologies America Incorporated
Amount: An estimated $65,000
Renewal: 1st of 2, 7/1/2016 through 6/30/2017
Pricing Changes:
None.
Service/Product Changes:
None
Sole Source Status:
The University of Illinois, through its Materials Research Lab, verifies to the best of it knowledge and available information that the vendor is still the sole source for this renewal.
Potential Future Renewals:
$140,000
The University award process may be delayed up to thirty days as this award goes through a state approval process.
Awarded to:Vendor: Hitachi High Technologies America Incorporated, Dallas, TX
Amount: An amount not to exceed $64,763.40
Terms:
An estimated start date of 7/1/2015 through 6/30/2016, 12 months
Renewals:
2 one-year
Potential Future Renewals:
$205,000
The University award process may be delayed up to thirty days as this award goes through a state approval process.
The hearing has been cancelled since no vendors registered to attend or submitted comments regarding this notice.
First published Tuesday, February 24, 2015
The University awarded a contract for annual maintenance and service for microscope to Hitachi High Technologies America Incorporated, Dallas, TX, for an amount not to exceed $64,763.40.
Annual preventative maintenance and service contract for a Hitachi H-9500 Transmission Electron Microscope. Contract covers routine and corrective maintenance visits; emergency service in case of instrument inoperability and defective parts replacement.
The University has determined that this purchase is only economically available from this source because the compatibility of equipment, accessories, replacement parts, or service is a paramount consideration. Also, items are patented. Supplier's schematics and maintenance procedures are proprietary information held only by Hitachi High Technologies.
For additional information, contact:
State Purchasing Officer - Aaron M. Finder
The State of Illinois has a policy to encourage prospective vendors to hire
qualified veterans, minorities, females, persons with disabilities and ex-offenders.
