SOURCES SOUGHT
66 -- Automated Sample Concentration Units and Clean-Up System - 1113429
- Notice Date
- 2/7/2013
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 334516
— Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, Food and Drug Administration, Office of Acquisitions and Grants Services, 5630 Fishers Lane, Room 2129, Rockville, Maryland, 20857-0001
- ZIP Code
- 20857-0001
- Solicitation Number
- 1113429
- Archive Date
- 3/5/2013
- Point of Contact
- Sondea Blair, Phone: 8705437469
- E-Mail Address
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sondea.blair@fda.hhs.gov
(sondea.blair@fda.hhs.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Sources Sought 1113429 MARKET RESEARCH PURPOSES ONLY NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL OR SOLICITATION The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), is conducting market research to support the Arkansas Regional Laboratory (ARL) requirement for a hybrid cleanup system and concentration units. This sources sought notice is being issued to determine if small business manufacturers or small businesses capable of supplying a U.S. made product that satisfies our requirement of another small business manufacturer exist. The associated North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code is 334516 - Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing; Small Business Size Standard is 500 employees. Background: The FDA, Arkansas Regional Laboratory (ARL) requires an Automated Cleanup System and Concentration Units with post-warranty service/maintenance to facilitate the automated clean-up and concentration of dioxin, furan, PCB, and PBDE analyses in sample extracts from matrices including eggs, fish, feeds, dairy products and soil. The ARL is the servicing lab for the FDA's Dioxin Program which focuses on the ultra-trace analysis of dioxins, furans, PCBs, and PBDEs. The sample extraction and cleanup for these analytes is very labor intensive and is susceptible to contamination during sample handling. ARL currently uses equipment from Fluid Management Systems for the liquid pressurized extraction and clean-up of various matrices. This request is for the purchase and installation of an additional cleanup system and concentration units to increase the sample handling capacity which will enhance productivity and minimize potential contamination by automating sample transfer and concentration steps for the clean-up. Specific requirements are as follows: Automated Clean-up System • The system shall have the ability to simultaneously clean up (unattended after loading samples) up to six samples followed by a direct automated delivery of the cleaned sample extract to a concentration unit. • Sample sizes pre-extraction shall be 2 - 75 g for each matrix. • Clean-up solvents shall include methylene chloride, hexane, toluene, and ethyl acetate. • Each of the six samples shall be simultaneously cleaned via independently controlled module. • The automated clean-up procedure shall use various clean-up columns including AX-21 carbon, acidified silica gel, and activated alumina, with automated delivery to a concentration unit. • The clean-up process shall include the ability to automatically change the directional flow in order to load and elute the AX-21 carbon column using different solvents. • The clean-up process shall include the ability to collect multiple elution fractions off the columns, unattended. • Concentration shall be completed with a solvent evaporation step directly into a GC vial insert while unattended. • Concentration equipment shall consist of a waterless system. • Clean-up columns (alumina, acidified silica, basic silica, and AX-21 carbon) shall be certified to be phthalate, PCB, PBDE, and dioxin free. • System shall provide an automated clean-up procedure using various clean-up columns including carbon and completing with a solvent evaporation step directly into a Gas Chromatograph vial insert ready for analyses on a Gas Chromatograph/Mass Spectrometer (GC/MS). • The equipment shall be new, not used, refurbished, or previously used for demonstration. • The equipment shall be compatible with an existing Power Prep Clean-up System manufactured by Fluid Management Systems, serial number 5134423TAG with DMS-6000 software. • The contractor shall provide inside delivery, set-up, installation, and on-site training. • All equipment shall include a minimum 12- month warranty • System shall be capable of producing 2 batches of 6 samples within a 24-hour period • Equipment shall have a computer controlled extraction and evaporation procedure with the ability to monitor differences between samples, such as pressure drop or faulty temperature, to assist in trouble shooting poor recoveries. Qty: 1 System Required Concentration Units • System shall have the ability to simultaneously concentrate up to six samples • Shall be capable of producing 2 batches of 6 samples within a 24-hour period • The final extracts produced by the system shall meet recovery criteria set for dioxins furans and PCBs found in EPA Method 1613 using an egg, feed, and fish matrix. • The system must be compatible with analysis via Gas Chromatography Coupled with High Resolution Mass Spectrometry (GC HRMS) using the Waters Autospec (serial Number M492) for the dioxins, furans, and coplanar PCBs with the following specifications: DB-5MS column 60 meter, 0.25 X 0.25. • The system must furthermore be compatible with Gas Chromatography Time of Flight (GC-TOF) analysis using the Leco Pegas four dimensional Mass Spectrometer, (serial number 3450) for the PBDEs and non-coplanar PCBs, with the following specifications: SGE HT 8 column, 10 m, 0.1 X 0.1 with an Agilent DB-17 1 meter, 0.18 X 0.18 column. • No phthalate, PCB, PBDE, or other interferences shall be created from the equipment or manufacturers consumables. • Each sample in a batch shall have its own line from sample introduction through extract evaporation, resulting in no possibility of cross-contamination. • Each sample in a batch shall have its own line from sample introduction through extract evaporation, resulting in no possibility of cross-contamination. • Equipment shall have a computer controlled extraction and evaporation procedure with the ability to monitor differences between samples, such as a pressure drops or faulty temperature to assist in trouble shooting poor recoveries. • Cleaned extracts from the equipment shall meet recovery requirements of 75% for tests/blanks spiked with labeled congeners immediately prior to introduction/loading on the cleanup equipment. • The equipment shall be new, not used, refurbished, or previously used for demonstration. • The equipment shall be compatible with an existing Power Prep Clean-Up System manufactured by Fluid Management Systems, serial number 5134423TAG, with DMS-6000 software. • The contractor shall provide inside delivery, set-up, installation, clean-up of installation site, and on-site training. • All equipment shall include a minimum 12- month warranty Qty: 2 Units Required Post-Warranty Service Agreement The service agreement shall include, at a minimum, the following: • Minimum of one (1) Preventative Maintenance visit per contract year; • Unlimited on-site preventative maintenance, services, and repairs; • Unlimited Priority Telephone and Email Support; • Peak performance maintenance kits; • Software updates; • Preventative maintenance, services, and repairs performed by an OEM trained and certified technician; • Preventative maintenance, services, and repairs include all labor, travel, and new OEM factory-certified replacement parts, components, subassemblies, etc. (except consumables); • Phone support available from 8am to 5pm Eastern Time, Monday through Friday; • Priority scheduling for requests for service within 24 hrs; and The offeror may provide information on multiple types of service agreements plans available and pricing of each. Place of Performance Work shall be formed on-site at the location of the instrument: US Food and Drug Administration Arkansas Regional Laboratory 3900 NCTR Road Jefferson, AR 72079 Responses to this sources sought shall unequivocally demonstrate that the respondent is regularly engaged in the manufacturing and/or sale of same or substantially similar items. Though the target audience is small business manufacturers or small businesses capable of supplying U.S. made product of another small business manufacturer or producer, all interested parties may respond. At a minimum, responses shall include the following: • Business name and bio, DUNS number, business address, business website, business size status (i.e., SB, VOSB, SDVOSB, HUBZone SB, SDB, WOSB, LB), point of contact name, mailing address (if different from business address), phone number and email address; [Provide this same information again is responding to provide a product manufactured by another firm]. • Past performance information for the manufacture and/or sale of same or substantially similar items to include date of sale, description (should also include drawings and photos), dollar value, client name, client address, client contact name, client point of contact mailing address (if different from that provided for client), client point of contact phone number, client point of contact email address, and name of the manufacturer (to include DUNS number and size status) if not the respondent. • Descriptive literature, brochures, marketing material, etc. detailing the nature of the items the responding firm is regularly engaged in manufacturing and/or selling. • If applicable, identification of the firm's GSA Schedule contract(s) by Schedule number and SINs that are applicable to this potential requirement are also requested. • If a large business, provide if subcontracting opportunities exist for small business concerns. The government is not responsible for locating or securing any information, not identified in the response. Interested Contractors must respond with capability statements which are due in person, by postal mail or email to the point of contact listed below on or before February 18, 2013 by 13:00 hours (Central Time in Jefferson, Arkansas) at the Food and Drug Administration, Field Operations Branch, FDA|OO|OFBA|OAGS|DAP, Attn: Sondea Blair, 3900 NCTR Road, HFT-320, Bldg 50, Rm 421 Jefferson, AR 72079-9502 or email sondea.blair@fda.hhs.gov. Reference FDA 1113429. Notice of Intent Responses to this sources sought announcement will assist the Government in determining whether or not any future requirement similar to this one should be set aside for small business, made available to full and open competition or procure through sole-source acquisition procedures. Disclaimer and Important Notes This notice does not obligate the Government to award a contract or otherwise pay for the information provided in response. The Government reserves the right to use information provided by respondents for any purpose deemed necessary and legally appropriate. Any organization responding to this notice should ensure that its response is complete and sufficiently detailed to allow the Government to determine the organization's qualifications to perform the work. Respondents are advised that the Government is under no obligation to acknowledge receipt of the information received or provide feedback to respondents with respect to any information submitted. After a review of the responses received, a pre-solicitation synopsis and solicitation may be published in FedBizOpps. However, responses to this notice will not be considered adequate responses to a solicitation. Confidentiality No proprietary, classified, confidential, or sensitive information should be included in your response. The Government reserves the right to use any non-proprietary technical information in any resultant solicitation(s). Additional Notes: If the stated requirements appear restrictive, please submit comments detailing the concern. Though this is not a request for quote, informational pricing for the instrument(s) and service plans is encouraged.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: US Food and Drug Administration, Arkansas Regional Laboratory, National Center for Toxicological Research, Jefferson, Arkansas, 72079, United States
- Zip Code: 72079
- Zip Code: 72079
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