USDA, Food Safety and Inspection Service, ASD, PCS, Room 2161 South Building, 1400 Independence Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20250-3700

65 -- THERMAL ENERGY ANALYZER SOL FSIS-65-W-97 DUE 091897 POC Janet Elm The U.S. Department of Agriculture, Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) intends to award a purchase order to Thermedics Detection, Inc., 220 Mill Road, Chelmsford, MA 01824, for the purchase of one Thermal Energy Analyzer (TEA). The TEA is the method of detection used for the Mineral Oil, Low Temperature, and Supercritical Fluid Extraction (SFE) analyses of nitrosamines. THERE IS NO SOLICITATION DOCUMENT AVAILABLE. Thermedics Detection, Inc. is the only known source for this product.Only fully developed, commercially available systems shall be considered. All interested concerns must identify their interest in writing and fully document their capability to meet the agency's requirements by forwarding a detailed response within 15 days of publication of this notice. All responses must be in writing and may be faxed to 202-690-1814. All proposals from responsible sources will be considered by the Agency. If no affirmative written responses are received within 15 days of publication of this notice to determine that a comparable source is available, or is more advantageous to the Government, negotiations will take place with Thermedics Detection, Inc. There is no solicitation document available. (0246)

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