SPECIAL NOTICE
70 -- UPLC
- Notice Date
- 8/24/2017
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 334516
— Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Army, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, USACE ITL, GSL, EL, CHL, Vicksburg, 3909 Halls Ferry Road, VICKSBURG, Mississippi, 39180-6199, United States
- ZIP Code
- 39180-6199
- Solicitation Number
- W912HZ-17-U-1000
- Archive Date
- 9/12/2017
- Point of Contact
- Allison B Hudson, Phone: 6016343063
- E-Mail Address
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allison.b.hudson@usace.army.mil
(allison.b.hudson@usace.army.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- USACE, Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) Contracting Office intends to issue a sole source award to Agilent Technologies Inc., 2850 Centerville Road, Wilmington, DE, 19808-1610 for the purchase of an ultra high pressure liquid chromatograph. The UPLC system has the following requirements: • A programmable slit width o Optimization of spectral resolution, lower limit of detection/quantitation, and increased signal to noise. • RFID tagged UV lamp and flow cells o Allows for traceability of samples by recording experimental paramters minimizing false data interpretation • Linearity upgrade potential o In certain cases samples return a concentration too great to be interpreted precisely and accurately, which necessitates dilution of a sample and extra instrument time to rerun analysis. Improved detectors could alleviate this problem. The detector must have an upper detection limit of > 2 AU, which will allow for concomitant detection of low and high concentrations. • Number of signals o A minimum of 8 signals is required. Often in the complex matrices encountered in our routine analyses there are interfering compounds. Having the option to scan at multiple wavelengths in a single run allows for better detection of many compounds and can be used as a further piece of evidence beyond retention time to a known standard. • Low level of noise o The background noise must be very low (on the order of 10-6) to allow for sufficient baseline-to-baseline integration for extremely low levels of detection and quantitation. • Fast sampling rate (240 Hz for a full spectrum) o The spectral acquisition must be sufficiently fast to deal with the ultra-fast chromatographic separations possible with this technology. • Small signal drift o Given time, instrumentation (particularly those using electromagnetic radiation, i.e. a DAD) will give different results. • Operating temperature o This needs to be significantly large to accommodate the temperature fluxes in our laboratory due to the AC going out during the summer months. • Thermal control of columns o Changing the temperature of a column can have drastic effects on the retention times of analytes if the control can be accurately maintained. Many methods can operate at room temperature, but as this is in a constant flux in the lab we require being able to increase the temperature to a constant (± 0.5 °C). Ideally the temperature could be maintained below the ambient temperature as well. The system must allow for pre-column heating and post-column cooling to ensure low levels of detector noise. This needs to be over a greater range than the temperature of the thermostated column compartment. • Column capacity o The system needs to be able to accommodate numerous columns to avoid downtime on the instrument for changing columns. These will also need their own thermostated compartments for different methods. • Column Length o There are a variety of columns available from different manufacturers which are often of different length. The thermostated compartments must accommodate columns up to 30 cm in length. • pH range o Often analyses are required to be held at a constant pH to ensure speciation of many of the components of a sample. Ideally the range would encompass 1.0 - 12.5. The material or service must be compatible in all aspects (form, fit, and function) with existing systems presently installed. The current equipment is OSX-based framework interfacing seamlessly with the lab's current LIMS for data storage/retrieval and must be interchangeable with numerous other instruments used for tandem detection/identification (e.g., mass spectrometers). These instruments are also manufactured by Aglient. The applicable North American Industrial Classification System Code (NAICS) code that this work falls under is 334516, with a size standard of 500 employees. This notice of intent is for information purposes only. This notice is not a request for competitive quotes or proposals. A solicitation will not be issued. However, all responsible sources may submit a capability statement, proposal, or quotation, which shall be considered by the agency. The information submitted must be provided in sufficient detail to demonstrate the vendor's ability to fulfill this requirement. The contractor must also provide a description of their past experience in fulfilling requirements which are the same or similar to this requirement and references for each. Information received will be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. A determination by the Government not to compete this requirement on a full and open competition basis, based upon responses to this notice, is solely within the discretion of the government. Oral communications are not acceptable in response to this notice. Responses to this requirement may be submitted to Allison Hudson at Allison.B.Hudson@usace.army.mil. The solicitation number shall be included in the subject line of the e-mail submission. Responses must be received no later than 5:00 PM CST, Monday, 28 August 2017.
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