SOLICITATION NOTICE
66 -- 14.1 T Wide Bore NMR Spectrometer
- Notice Date
- 7/31/2006
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 334516
— Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Station Support/Simplified Acquisitions, 31 Center Drive Room 1B59, Bethesda, MD, 20892
- ZIP Code
- 20892
- Solicitation Number
- Reference-Number-NOI60100
- Response Due
- 8/4/2006
- Archive Date
- 8/19/2006
- Description
- National Institute on Drug Abuse, Office of Acquisitions- Neurosciences, Station Support/Simplified Acquisition, on behalf of the National Institute on Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) intends to solicit a proposal, negotiate and award a purchase order on a noncompetitive basis (FAR 6.302-1) to Bruker Biospin Corporation for the Avance II 600WB High Performance Digital NMR Spectrometer. Specifications are: a. 14.1 Tesla self-shielded 89 mm bore magnet with the 5G (FDA exposure limit) line within 1.1 meters radially of the center of the magnet and 2.2 meters axially of the center of the magnet. b. The entire system must fit within area of 18? x 9? 6? (171 sq. ft) with 12? 6? ceiling height and require only minor electrical system modifications. c. Two-receiver channels capable of operation in a frequency range from 5 ? 600 MHz. d. Two transmitter channels capable of operation in a frequency range from 5 ? 600 MHz. e. 40 mm inner diameter gradient system capable of 150 G/cm gradient fields on each X, Y and Z axis with digitally controlled, downloaded and compensated gradient power supplies. f. Digitally controlled B0 compensation supply integrated into the gradient control apparatus. g. Modular radio frequency (RF) coils capable of operating at 600 MHz for the purposes of imaging samples from 15 mm to 30 mm in size. h. Direct upgrade path to 8 receiver channels using standard console architecture. i. A state of the art computer workstation to control instrument and perform MRI image and NMR spectral signal processing with pulse sequence code compatibility with current MRI scanners in the Mouse Imaging Facility (Bruker Avance 4.7 T / 40 cm, Bruker Avance 7 T /21 cm, Bruker Avance 7T / 16 cm). Item to be delivered and installed within 8 months at 10 Center Drive, Bethesda, Maryland 20892. The device is needed for the examination of prepared tissues and animals via magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) at extremely high spatial resolution (on the order of 20 microns isotropic). The upgrade in main magnetic field from 7T to 14.1 T will increase the throughput of the MR microimager by a factor of 4 for the equivalent resolution. The upgraded electronics will support multi-channel reception of the NMR signal allowing further acceleration of the image acquisition. Overall image quality and acquisition speed will be increased substantially by this upgrade by any metric. The device is required to have software and data compatibility with the existing 3 MRI scanners in the Mouse Imaging Facility. This state-of-the-art technology upgrade is needed to perform high spatial resolution magnetic resonance imaging experiments with accelerated temporal resolution. Due to severe site restrictions the magnetic field cannot extend further than listed in the specifications above. A key requirement is the extent of the five gauss line due to other nearby equipment that will not function properly in a magnetic field above 5 gauss. Bruker Biospin Inc. is the only vendor capable of producing such a high magnetic field (14.1T) with sufficient bore size for required experiments (89 mm diameter bore) and with such a 5 gauss line sufficiently close to the magnet. A second key feature is that the system must be compatible in terms of operation with the other three existing Bruker MRI scanners located in the NIH Mouse Imaging Facility. This is a shared facility with many inexperienced users. These users often perform imaging experiments on two or three of the existing MRI scanners. It is critical that the operation in terms of software, hardware features, and data processing be the same across all the available MRI systems. The acquisition is being conducted under simplified acquisition using FAR 12 procedures. Interested parties may identify their interest and capabilities in response to this synopsis. The determination by the Government not to compete the proposed contract based upon responses to this notice is solely with the discretion of the Government. Comments to this announcement, referencing synopsis number NOI60100 may be submitted to the NIDA, Station Support/Simplified Acquisition Branch, 31 Center Drive, Bldg 31, Room 1B59, Bethesda, MD 20892-2080, and Attention: Susan A. Nsangou, Contracting Officer
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