SOLICITATION NOTICE
66 -- Autostainer
- Notice Date
- 8/27/2002
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- Contracting Office
- Department of Agriculture, Food Safety and Inspection Service, Acquisitions and Agreements Section, 5601 Sunnyside Avenue, Mail drop 5230, Beltsville, MD, 20705
- ZIP Code
- 20705
- Solicitation Number
- FSIS-35-B-02
- Response Due
- 9/9/2002
- Point of Contact
- Debra Kaelberer, Contracting Officer, Phone (301) 504-4243, Fax (301) 504-4276,
- E-Mail Address
-
debra.kaelberer@fsis.usda.gov
- Description
- The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) intends to issue a sole source purchase order to DAKO Corporation, 6392 Via Real, Carpinteria, CA 93013, for one DAKO Autostainer Universal Staining System. The DAKO system is the only product available which meets all of the Government's requirements which includes the following: 1) Must allow the use of reagents from a wide variety of suppliers in order for the lab to use a wide variety of antibodies and reagents necessary to detect key markers in a number of domestic animal species. 2) Must have the ability to turn off any heating unit incorporated into the system. 3) Must use standard microscopic glass slides. 4) Must have an auditory alarm system. The system must alert the technical staff that a process failure has occurred and shall let them know where in the process failure occurred. 5) The system must be PC based. The system shall use software that is Windows compatible. Programming software shall allow each slide to be programmed with a separate protocol, allowing greater flexibility and economy when running multiple types of analyses. 6) The system shall allow the separation of hazardous from non-hazardous waste in order to reduce the amount and disposal cost of the hazardous waste produced. 7) The system shall be able to reliably perform unmonitored nighttime runs, and use a reagent probe, not a pipette requiring disposable pipette tips. (Systems using pipette tips tend to drop tips during a run. This causes the entire group of slides to be re-run) A system that uses a reagent probe eliminates the problem of rerunning a test, allows the tests to be run unmonitored (overnight) as well as eliminating the cost of disposable pipettes. 8) System shall have a minimum slide capacity of 48 slides. This is a sole source procurement under the authority of FAR 6.302-1. The Government believes only one responsible source can provide the product that will satisfy the agency requirements. This notice of intent is not a Request For Proposal (RFP). See Numbered Note 22. Responses are due by 3:00 p.m. on September 9, 2002. Oral communications are not acceptable in response to this notice. Responses must be submitted to Debra C. Kaelberer, Contracting Officer, at USDA, FSIS, ASD, 5601 Sunnyside Avenue, Maildrop 5230, Beltsville, MD 20705-5230. Responses will also be accepted by fax at 301-504-4276 or by e-mail at debra.kaelberer@fsis.usda.gov.
- Record
- SN00150825-W 20020829/020827213213 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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