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66 -- PACKED COLUMN SUPERCRITICAL FLUID CHROMATOGRAPH SYSTEM SOL 97-35 POC Angela S. Thompson -- 513/366-2005 E-MAIL: U.S. EPA Contracts Mangement Division, thompson.angela@epamail.epa.gov. The USEPA intends to negotiate on a sole source basis, under the authority of FAR 6.302, with Berger Instruments, Inc. for a Packed Column Supercritical Fluid Chromatograph System. The USEPA, Ann Arbor, Chemistry Laboratory has identified the need to acquire a new Supercritical Fluid Chromatograph (SFC) to meet the requests for the increased volume of diesel enforcement sample analysis. The proposed SFC by Berger Instruments, Inc. is the only instrument currently available on the market that meets our requirements for analytical capabilities and is completely compatible with other analytical instruments currently used in Chemistry Laboratory. Various properties of the gasoline and diesel fuels obtained using different instruments are merged into a database to generate complete fuel analysis reports. It is absolutely a must that a new instrument is completely compatible with other analytical instruments in Chemistry Laboratory. Since the Berger SFC uses HP ChemStation to acquire and analyze the data, the same software that is also used for the other analytical instruments (HP, GC/MSD, HP GC/FID, and HP GC/OFID) in Chemistry Laboratory, it is the most compatible system available on the market with the rest of the Chemistry Laboratory analytical instruments. The SFC Division of the Berger Instruments, Inc. was previously owned by Hewlett-Packard Co. In order to analyze the increased volume of diesel enforcement samples efficiently and in timely manner, it is critical that the new SFC be not only an instrument with superior analytical capabilities as described above but also completely compatible with other analytical instruments in Chemistry Laboratory. THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS. Sources wishing to be considered must submit documentation to the office identified above which establishes the ability to furnish equipment which is fully compatible with the existing SFC system. Documentation must be submitted within 10 calendar days of publication of this notice. See Note 22. (0134)

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