U.S. Army Materiel Command, Natick Contracting Division, Attn: AMSSB-ACN, Natick, MA 01760-5011

66 -- LASER SCANNING ANALYSER DUE 010800 POC Kathy Wilder WEB: Business Opportunities at U.S. Army Soldier and Biological, http://www3.natick.army.mil. E-MAIL: To contact Contract Specialist, kwilder@natick.army.mil. The U.S. Army Soldier and Biological Chemical Command intends to conduct negotiations with and award a contract to Beckman Coulter, Inc., 11800 SW 147 Ave., Miami, Florida, 33116-9015 on a basis of other than full and open competition, reference FAR 6.302-1 for a Laser-scanning particle size analyzer, 0.4-2000 um, including polarization intensity differential scattering (PIDS) for analysis of submicron particles. Must employ reverse Fourier lens optics, Fraunhofer laser diffraction, and Mie scattering analysis. Must include 3-element filter (3 wavelengths of light), a minumum of 100 forward detectors and 100 size channels (1:1 detector to size channel ratio). Unit must be self-alligning and include particle-dispersion capability. Results must be rendered statistically (mean particle size, distribution percentages, for both volume and number-based distributions) and also as plotted distributions. Beckman-Coulter, Inc. is the only company offering this patented technique for accurate analysis of submicron particles. No solicitation document is available. See Note 22. Posted 07/20/00 (W-SN477079). (0202)

Loren Data Corp. http://www.ld.com (SYN# 0340 20000724\66-0016.SOL)

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