Dept. of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 10000 Brecksville Road, Brecksville, OH 44141

66 -- ULTRA-PLUS MICRO CATECHOLAMINE ANALYZER SOL 541-169-98 DUE 051498 POC Rita J. Bonner (440) 838-6091 Under the authority of 38 U.S.C. 8153, the VA Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio proposes to enter into a non-competitive contract with Micro-Tech Scientific,140S. Wolfe Road, Sunnyvale, CA 94086 to provide the following: Item (1) Ultra-Plus Micro Catecholamine Analyzer System One, includes Isocratic Ultra-Plus micro HPLC pumping system, Flow rate 0.1ml/min to 600 1ml/min, Pump controller interface with Compaq Pentium controller, Pump controller software for Windows, Pentium 166MHz Tower CPU, 64MB of RAM, Enhanced 101 Keyboard, 1.44 MB 3.5" HD Floppy Drive, GB IDE Hard Disk, Multi I/O Card, Super VGA 14" Color Monitor, MS-DOS 6.2 and Windows 3.1 (Available with Windows 95, RH8125i micro HPLC injection valve, 2 channel micro pulse dampener with the following specifications: Range 10pA/V -- 5mA in 1, 2, 5 increments, Integrated oven and Faraday shield, VT-03 flowcell mounted with 50 mm spacer (xx=WE material), GC WE (GC2 type, 1.9mm) for microbe and capillary HPLC, Ag/AgCl reference electrode filled with saturated KCl/AgCl (complete), Fingertight connectors (2) (+2 spare), 25mm spacers (2), 50 mm spacers (2), 120 mm spacers (2), Teflon tubing (1/16" OD, 0.3 mm ID, 1.5 m and 0.5 mm ID, 1.5m), Cable set: mains, cell, recorder, integrator, Polishing disc mounted on glass plate, 10ml diamond emulsion (0.25 mm Hex key (3mm) for flowcell assembly/disassembly, 2 mm screwdriver for offset adjustment, fused silica capillary connection for micro HPLC column to flowcell, Ultra-Plus Micro Catecholamine Analyzer manual, 10cm X 1.mm i.d., glass lined stainless stell microbore catecholamine column (CA-10-3M), 3mm Catecholamine column, catecholamine standards, 1,000ml of catecholamine analysis buffer and one day installation and training. Item (2) Ultra-Plus Micro Catecholamine Analyzer System Two, includes all option of the System One plus: CP-WIN -- Chrom Perfect 4I, Data Acquisition Software, Microsoft Windows Version, 4 Channel Data Handling, with independent start and stop, each channel uses its own data acquisition parameter, sample sequence and calibration methods. Item (3) Ultra-Plus Micro Catecholamine Analyzer System Three: Includes all options of the System Two plus: Autosampler, 0.1ml to 100ml Variable Loop with 120 vials, Sample Preparation upgrade. Tray temperature control upgrade, Peltier 0 C -- 60 C. This procurement is considered unique and complex in nature. Therefore there is a reasonable basis to conclude that the supplies/services required are only available from this source with unique capabilities and no other type of supplies/services will satisfy agency requirements. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive quotations, but all quotations received within the due date for receipt of proposals shall be considered. (0131)

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