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66 -- INSTRUMENTS & LABORATORY EQUIPMENT SOL RFQ-NCI-90208 DUE 091399 POC Cynthia Brown, Purchasing Agent, 301-402-4509, Todd Cole, Contracting Officer The National Cancer Institute, Division of Clinical Sciences, Cell and Cancer Biology Department plans to procure a MetaMorph Imaging System from Universal Imaging Corporation, 502 Brandywine Parkway, West Chester, PA 19380. The Cell and Cancer Biology Department (CCBD) has an existing MetaMorph system that is used for acquiring and processing images from a light microscope in the laboratory and from a confocal microscope facility. The data obtained from these microscopes and processed with the current MetaMorph system, is used to investigate growth factors and how agents affect nuclear/cytoplasmic trafficking and apoptosis in human epithelial cancer. Due to the volume of imaging in the confocal facility and on the laboratory, an additional image analysis system capable of duplicating the existing MetaMorph system's color image acquisition and confocal data processing capability is essential. The dat must be obtained and processed in a manner to insure complete correlation with the data previously processed via the existing MetaMorph system from Universal Imaging Corporation. The new system, unlike the existing laboratory instrument, shall be able to process images from mutiply labeled fluorescent and histochemical samples. The system shall provide an integrated hardware/software system environment. In addition, the system purchase shall include delivery, installation, training, technical support, and one year warranty. Universal Imaging Corporation is the only source known by the NCI Researcher that can meet the above requirements, especially with regard to maintaining complete correlation and comparability to the data previously processed via the existing MetaMorph system. If any interested party believes it can meet the above requirement, it may submit a statement of capabilities. The statement of capabilities and any other information furnished must be in writing and must contain material in sufficient detail to allow NCI to determine if the party can perform this requirement. Capability statements must be received in the contracting office by 3:00 p.m. EST, on September 13, 1999. If you have any questions, please contact Cynthia Brown, Purchasing Agent on (301) 402-4509. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed requirement based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information received will be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. Please reference solicitation number RFQ-NCI-90208. Posted 08/26/99 (W-SN372719). (0238)

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