SOURCES SOUGHT
99 -- Automated tape-collecting ultramicrotome for array tomography
- Notice Date
- 8/20/2020 4:53:53 PM
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 334614
— Software and Other Prerecorded Compact Disc, Tape, and Record Reproducing
- Contracting Office
- NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH OLAO BETHESDA MD 20892 USA
- ZIP Code
- 20892
- Solicitation Number
- NIH-OLAO-NOI5767135
- Response Due
- 8/28/2020 9:00:00 AM
- Archive Date
- 08/28/2020
- Point of Contact
- Rosalind Clark, Phone: 3018277683
- E-Mail Address
-
rosalind.clark@nih.gov
(rosalind.clark@nih.gov)
- Description
- The National Institutes of Health intends to negotiate on a sole source basis with RMC Boeckeler. The ATUMtome�s tape collection system (ATUM) was developed at Harvard University, where Professor Jeff Lichtman, MD and his team designed the instrument to collect ultrathin sections to help reconstruct the brain�s neural pathways; a precursor to one day mapping the entire human brain. The RMC ATUMtome is a unique system for collecting sections on a continuous tape. Typically, a resin-embedded specimen is used on the ultramicrotome to cut serial sections that then float on a surface of the water in the diamond knife trough. The ATUMtome moves a continuous ribbon of tape through this water trough, automatically removing the serial sections from the water surface in sequence. After the sections are collected, the tape is mounted onto a silicon wafer substrate or glass slides. The sections are now ready for imaging with a scanning electron microscope or via other microscopy techniques.
- Web Link
-
SAM.gov Permalink
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- Place of Performance
- Address: Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
- Zip Code: 21224
- Country: USA
- Zip Code: 21224
- Record
- SN05768326-F 20200822/200820230200 (samdaily.us)
- Source
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