SOLICITATION NOTICE
66 -- Equipment
- Notice Date
- 7/19/2010
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 334516
— Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Rockledge Dr. Bethesda, MD, Office of Acquisitions, 6701 Rockledge Dr RKL2/6100 MSC 7902, Bethesda, Maryland, 20892-7902
- ZIP Code
- 20892-7902
- Solicitation Number
- NHLBI-PB-HG-2010-247-RSF
- Archive Date
- 8/7/2010
- Point of Contact
- Rashida S. Ferebee, Phone: 3014352605
- E-Mail Address
-
ferebeers@nhlbi.nih.gov
(ferebeers@nhlbi.nih.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- THIS IS A NOTICE OF INTENT, NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS. A SOLICITATION DOCUMENT WILL NOT BE ISSUED AND PROPOSALS WILL NOT BE REQUESTED. It is the intent of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), for the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), to negotiate/award a purchase order to Beckman Coulter, 250 South Kraemer Blvd., Brea, CA 92822, for the purchase of a Biomek FXP A318444 and a Biomek NXP A31841. Several aspects of the Beckman system comprising the Biomek FXP and Biomek NXP units make it unique. Their modular-based platforms are designed to accommodate a variety of sample throughput in 96-, 384-, and 1536-well formats. Specifically, the liquid handling platform will have one 384-channel head with a gripping unit, a second arm with 8 independent pipetting probes, and a single arm with one 96-channel head with a gripping unit. The 384 and 96 multichannel heads maintain pipetting accuracies of 3% CV at volumes of 1 µL. Both 384 and 96 well heads can be changed to the other head type, allowing us to ramp the capacity of our liquid handling operations if required for specific operations. The 8-channel variable spanning head is capable of independent tip liquid level detection, and offers fixed probe or disposable pipette tip options. It is also able to access microplate and non-microplate well-to-well dimensions, providing extreme flexibility. The span 8 probes are able to pipette 1 µL with accuracies of 3% CV. The span 8 also has the capability to include a solvent/solution selection system in order to change between up to 6 different solutions within a method. The system is designed to accommodate a variety of tube and plate formats, such as deep-well plates, PCR plates, reservoirs, and tubes in racks. This flexibility is critical to accommodate a wide variety of operations, including preparation of samples for real-time PCR analysis of active siRNAs. A variety of tip type options are also available for normal and low volume pipetting from a variety of vendors including 20 µL, 30 µL, 50 µL, 100 µL, 200 µL and 1000 µL tips. The system also provides user safety by offering a laser light curtain. This light curtain allows for complete work area accessibility while still providing operator safety. The liquid handler also includes a means for self-calibration with a laser system to allow for quick and easy calibration and not require “teaching”. Furthermore, the liquid handling system is capable of being integrated with external labware storage and other devices. An especially important feature of this system is that the liquid handling software is extremely user-friendly and adaptable for the novice or advanced user. The software has predefined and validated methods that are applicable to our operations (e.g., methods to extract nucleic acid for real-time PCR analysis and plasmid purification). The software also has three independent steps that function in concert to handle the most challenging parts of a hit picking process, including Hitpicking Setup (this determines the wells to transfer and assigns sources to destinations), Data Driven Transfer (liquid transfer), and Hitpicking Leftovers (this creates a record of any hits not transferred during the method). This software has options for volume splitting and specialized tip handling into a highly configurable user interface that allow our input files to direct the hit picking operation. Further, the ability to specify destination plates and wells, and individual transfer volumes from the hit file are essential. No other platform offers all of the critical features described in detail above. Specifically, no other comparably priced system can offer simultaneous and independent 384 and 96 well head operations, robust hit-picking and arraying, self calibration, pre-defined and validated protocols that are relevant to our needs, and user friendly software that has previously been used by current group members. This acquisition is being conducted under FAR Part 13, Simplified Acquisition Procedures, and is exempt from the requirements of FAR Part 6, Competition Requirements. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code is 325188 and the Size Standard is 100 Employees. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals. The determination by the Government not to compete the proposed purchase order based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Comments to this announcement, referencing synopsis number NHLBI-PB-HG-2010-247-RSF may be submitted by mail to the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Office of Acquisitions, Procurement Branch, 6701 Rockledge Drive, Suite 6145, Bethesda, MD 20892-7902, Attention: Rashida Ferebee, by fax transmission to (301)480-3345 or by email to ferebeers@nhlbi.nih.gov This action is under the authority of 41.U.S.C.253(c)(1), as set forth in FAR 13.106(b)(2), and HHSAR 306-302-1. Interested parties responding to this announcement need to do so by 9:00am Eastern Standard Time on July 23, 2010.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: NIH/NHGRI, Bethesda, Maryland, 20892, United States
- Zip Code: 20892
- Zip Code: 20892
- Record
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