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66 -- PURCHASE A CARBON DETERMINATOR SOL LA0343 DUE 060498 POC Barbara Curtiss at 513-487-2036 or by fax 513-487-2107 E-MAIL: U.S. EPA, CINCINNATI CONTRACTS MANAGEMENT DIVISION, curtiss.barbara@epamail.epa.gov. The EPA intends to negotiate this procurement using the Simplified Acquisition Procedures as established in FAR Part 13. This procurement is intended as a Small Business Set-Aside. The Subsurface Protection and Remediation Division of the National Risk Management Research Laboratory located in ADA, Oklahoma is in ned of purchasing a Carbon Determinator for determining various carbon contents in matrices such as soils, sediments, plants, seds and other solid materials. Determinator will need to have the cpacity to determine total, inorganic and organic carbon in these solid matrices at low levels. These determinators will be utilied predominatly in the research performed at the Robert S. Kerr Environmental Research Center in the rotection and remediation of the subsurface and ground water and in the ecosystem restoration program. The instrument needed will require automation of sample loading and computer sample data processing. The vendor shall provide an instrument with the following miniumu specifications: (1) Sample Size: Up to 350 mg. (2) Instrument Range @ 350 mg. Carbon: 50 ppm or .005% to 26%. (3) Precision: Carbon: Less than or equal to 1% RSD. (4) Readability: 10ppm (5) Calibration: Linear, quadratic and cubic polynominal (6) Analysis Time: Less than or equal to 120 seconds (7) Balance Readability and Repeatability: 0.001 to 9.000g +/- 0.001. (8) Detection Method: Infrared. (9) Furnace: Range 400 degrees C to 1450 degrees C. (10) Data Storage: Up to 100 sample data. (11) Autoloader Positions: Up to 36. Pricing should include set up and check out of the instrument to insure minimum specifications are being met. Training shall be provided for up to four people adequately to instruct technicians to have a general working knowledge of the instrument. This CBD notice is also acting as the Request for Quotation (RFQ). All interested vendors must have their price quotations in not later than 5 Jun 1998. All responsible sources may submit a written quotation which will be considered by the Agency. All requests must be in writing; telephone requests will not be honored. All requests shall be directed to Barbara Curtiss at 513-487-2036 or by fax at 513-487-2107 or by E-Mail at curtiss.barbara@epamail.epa.gov. Award of this requirement will be on or about 6 Jun 98. (0141)

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