66 -- ABI PRISM 7900HT SEQUENCE DETECTION SYSTEM

Notice Date

March 13, 2001

Contracting Office

USDA, ARS, North Atlantic Area, Contracting Office, 600 East Mermaid Lane, Wyndmoor, PA 19038

ZIP Code

19038

Solicitation Number

N/A

Point of Contact

Lisa M. Botella, Point of Contact, Eileen LeGates, Contracting Officer, (215)233-6551, fax (215) 233-6558

Description

The USDA, Agricultural Research Service (ARS), intends to negotiate solely with Applied Biosystems in Foster City, CA to furnish and deliver, F.O.B. Destination, to the USDA, ARS, NAA, U.S. Plant, Soil & Nutrition Lab, Tower Road, Ithaca, New York, for an ABI Prism 7900HT Sequence Detection System and accessories. This system will be used to detect and quantitate, through real-time PCR amplification, high through-put nucleic acid sequences for gene expression and allelic discrimination (single nucleotide polymorphisms: SNP genotyping.) The ABI Prism 7900HT Sequence Detection System and components must be UL Approved and manufactured to ISO 9001 Standards. The system includes: a) Peltier-based thermal cycling system with an interchangeable 384-well block and universal thermal cycling parameters; b)Extended-life 488nm argon-ion laser excitation source; c) Sequence Detection Software used for instrument control, data collection and analysis; d) Fluorescence detection via a spectrograph and cooled CCD camera; e) Computer: Pentium III 733 MHz processor, 256 MB RAM, 30 GB hard drive, CD-ROM drive, floppy disk drive, 17-inch color monitor, Windows NT 4.0 Operating System. The system includes shipping; installation; two (2) sets of the Operations and Maintenance manuals; a one year parts and labor warranty on the equipment; and training for five (5) people. The additional system components required are: 1) Primer Express Software for designing primers and probes; 2) Taqman Rnase P Instrument Verification Plate; 3) Hand-held bar code reader for sample tracking; 4) Consumables-384 well Clear Optical Reaction Plate with Bar Code; 5) an Optical Adhesive Cover Starter Kit. The system must be capable of expanding to include the following: 1) an Interchangeable 96-well block; 2) an Automation Accessory -- to automatically load and unload reaction plates, providing unattended instrument operation. Companies with the demonstrated capability and financial capacity to provide and service such equipment must submit a written substantive statement outlining the Company's and systems' capabilities, available service agreements and consumables (including price lists) to the Contracting Officer within 15 days of publication of this notice. This is not a request for proposal. No solicitation is available.

Record

Loren Data Corp. 20010315/66SOL003.HTM (W-072 SN50G165)