SOURCES SOUGHT
J -- Service Agreement for Microimager
- Notice Date
- 7/23/2012
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 811219
— Other Electronic and Precision Equipment Repair and Maintenance
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, Clinical Center/Office of Purchasing & Contracts, 6707 Democracy Blvd, Suite 106, MSC 5480, Bethesda, Maryland, 20892-5480
- ZIP Code
- 20892-5480
- Solicitation Number
- P12-011832
- Archive Date
- 8/18/2012
- Point of Contact
- Gail Akinbinu, Phone: 301-496-0692
- E-Mail Address
-
gakinbinu@cc.nih.gov
(gakinbinu@cc.nih.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The National Institutes of Health, Clinical Center is conducting a market survey/sources sought to help determine the availability and technical capability of qualified small businesses, veteran-owned small businesses, service disabled veteran-owned small businesses and/or HUBZONE small business capable of serving the needs mentioned below. This market survey/sources sought announcement is not a request for proposals and the Government is not committed to award a contract pursuant to this announcement. The information from this market research is for planning purposes only and will assist the Government in planning its acquisition strategy. This is strictly market research and the Government will not entertain questions concerning this market research. The Government will not pay for any costs incurred in the preparation of information for responding to this market survey. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code is 811219, Size Standard - $19mil The National Institutes of Health Radiology & Imaging Sciences Department intends to procure a service agreement for an advanced autoradiography technology using real-time imaging and multilabeling patent owned by Biospace. These technologies will be used for applications in imaging rat brains using various tracers. This will be the pre-PET imaging applications for those unique stracers and fast acquistion of autoradiographic imagin becomes of utmost importance, as well as the real-time application as nobody knows yet the exposure time necessary for our study specimen. This equipment is used to start an autoradiography service for the Hammoud lab, which is a new lab dedicated to imaging of infectious diseases. Autoradiography help determine the tissue distributions of inflammation and infection-associated receptors and cells both in vivo and in vitro. We have reviewed multiple other options for autoradiography however none of the other instruments can provide the following two characteristics: 1. Real-time acquisition of data which means that every disintegration will be seen, measured and listed in the image file with a number of criteria (time of occurrence, size, shape, brightness) allowing the discrimination of 2 to 3 different isotopes in the same experiment based on the difference of Energy or Decay. This opens the way to unlimited applications referred to as Multi-labeling. In addition, this system's characteristic allows fast and high resolution acquisition of the data, without the risk of over or under-exposure which can sometimes lead to failed studies and necessitate repeating the experiments. We hope this will result in a more accurate evaluation of the receptors, using a smaller number of animals. 2. Multi-labeling: This is a method of generating a plurality of images of a substrate from radioactive radiation coming from a plurality of radioactive tracers contained in the substrate. To this end, data representing the different detection signals generated by a detector are memorized, individually for each radioactive emission detected during a certain observation period, then statistical processing of these data is carried out in such a way as to estimate the images of the different tracers which correspond best to the set of memorized data. This equipment allows tracking more than one target in the same sample of animals. This microimager has been in use for a one year period. A service agreement is requested to meet the needs of the department in order that the equipment is functioning in a manner which will continue to meet the project requirements and the on-going experiment results. Vendors must submit capabilities statement to Gail Akinbinu at the following email address: gakinbinu@cc.nih.gov. Please submit documentation no later than August 3,2012 1:00p.m.( eastern)
- Web Link
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- Place of Performance
- Address: Bethesda, Maryland, 20892, United States
- Zip Code: 20892
- Zip Code: 20892
- Record
- SN02811622-W 20120725/120723235125-da32d72daa0567de0e30ae64aee6d033 (fbodaily.com)
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