66 -- 16.45TESLA HIGH RESOLUTION SPECTOMETER SYSTEM

Notice Date

August 29, 2001

Contracting Office

Department of Health and Human Services, Food and Drug Administration, Division of Construction and Agency Support Contracting, 5630 Fishers Lane, Room 2129, Rockville, MD, 20857-0001

ZIP Code

20857-0001

Solicitation Number

223-01-1355

Response Due

September 17, 2001

Point of Contact

John Speer, Contract Specialist, Phone (301) 827-7162, Fax (301) 827-7103, Email jspeer@oc.fda.gov -- Paul Scarborough, Contract Specialist, Phone (301) 827-7168, Fax (301) 827-7103, Email pscarbor@oc.fda.gov

Description

This synopsis is for commercial items prepared in accordance the FAR format in Subpart 12.6, as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. The solicitation will be released as a Request for Quote (RFQ). The Food and Drug Administration is soliciting for a 700MHz NMR Spectrometer. The spectrometer must include a Bruker Spectrospin or Oxford super-conducting magnet with a field of at least 16.45 Tesla (700 MHz 1H frequency), helium hold time greater than 120 days, and a nitrogen hold time of greater than or equal to 21 days. The bore diameter of the magnet shall be greater than 53 mm. The non-spinning line-shape specifications on a 5mm sample tube for this magnet must be 7/14 Hz or better as measured for the chloroform resonance a 0.5 and 0.1%, respectively, of the peak height of said resonance. The resolution of the same sample shall be 0.45 Hz at 50% of the peak height. The drift of the magnetic field shall be less than 10 Hz per hour, as measured on a 1H resonance, averaged over a twenty-four hour period in unlocked mode of operation. The magnet shall be actively shielded for a significant reduction of stray field with a five gauss line of less than 2.5 m horizontally and less than 3.5 m vertically from the center of the magnet. The magnet shall fit in a room with an eleven foot, four inch ceiling height. The spectrometer shall be fully compatible with all other NMR spectrometers currently used in the Laboratory of Biophysics, DBPAP/OVRR/CBER/FDA. These include one DRX-300 spectrometer and one DMX-500 spectrometer. The new instrument must have identical operating system and pulse programming software as the existing instruments, or the vendor shall replace the existing consoles and probes to make them identical in architecture and software to the 16.45 Tesla spectrometer. If the consoles on existing spectrometers are to be replaced, it is the vendor?s responsibility that the instruments meet all technical specifications and capabilities currently met by these spectrometers. The spectrometer must provide a minimum of five frequency channels together with the capability of producing different synchronous or asynchronous composite pulse decoupling and different shaped pulses on all five channels simultaneously and independently. The composite pulse decoupling schemes must be fully programmable by the user and include the option for shaping the individual elements in the composite pulses. All channels shall have identical specifications at low rf power levels, except that only one channel requires operation over the frequency range of 650 to 747 MHz (for 19F, 1H and 3H) and a minimum of four channels shall operate over the frequency range 35 to 285.9 MHz (all other nuclei). The vendor must take full responsibility for the entire system, including probe-heads, shim system, super-conducting magnet and computer system until all installation specifications have been met and acceptance documents are signed. The system shall be covered under full parts and labor hardware and software warranty for a period of one year, starting from the date that all guaranteed specifications resulting from this contract are met in the customer's lab, and the paperwork is signed off and complete. Additionally, a full parts warranty for an additional period of four years starting from the date that all guaranteed specifications resulting from this contract have been met in the buyer's laboratory and installation is signed off and complete. Award will made to the vendor who submits the lowest price system that meets all technical specifications. NOTE: Full specifications will be provided with the solicitation. The solicitation will be available on or about 28 August 2001 on the FedBizOpps website at http://www.fedbizopps.gov. Offers are due in this office no later than 2:00 PM, 17 September 2001. Submit Offers to the FDA/OFACS/Contract Operations Branch, Attn.: John D. Speer, HFA-512, 5630 Fishers Lane, Room 2129, Rockville, Maryland 20857-0001.=20

Web Link

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Record

Loren Data Corp. 20010831/66SOL002.HTM (D-241 SN50W2D1)