Nano Immuno Assay Instrument
THIS IS A SOURCES SOUGHT ANNOUNCEMENT ONLY. It is neither a solicitation announcement nor a request for proposals or quotes and shall not obligate the Government to award a contract. The purpose of this Sources Sought Announcement is for market research to gain knowledge of potential qualified sources interested and capable of performing the work and obtain their size classification relative to the North American Classification System (NACIS) Code 334516 with a size standard of 500 employees.
A. GENERAL INFORMATION
Background: The Research Department at the VA Palo Alto Healthcare System (VA PAHCS ) intends to purchase a capillary electrophoresis machine.
Scope of Work: The contractor shall provide the equipment, installation (if required), training and all other resources required to deliver the requirements stated in this SOW. This contract is for the purchase of a capillary electrophoresis machine which the VA PAHCS will use. This is a salient requirement, and is not flexible. The following are the minimum salient characteristics that must be met:
1) Essential/significant physical, functional, or performance characteristics.
The equipment must be able to perform capillary electrophoresis in order to separate proteins by molecular weight and by isoelectric point (charge). It must be able to perform immuno-assays using antibodies to detect target proteins. The machine must be able to perform these duties with nanoliter volumes of sample and run up to 96 samples in one assay. All these duties must be performed in an automated manner without personal supervision by the researcher. Furthermore the software included with the instrument must be able to detect and quantify expression of the target protein and post-translational modifications (i.e. phosphorylation, acetylation...etc). The system must be able to fix the sample in the capillary allowing it to perform the immuno-assay with chem-iluminescence detection. Additionally, the system must be able to separate the proteins by size and by charge.
a) Dimensions - Critical dimensions that must be adhered to are:
84 x 94 x 61 cm
REQUESTED INFORMATION: STATEMENT OF CAPABILITY: Submit a brief description (five [5] pages or less) that shows your company can provide the required services. One additional page may be included explaining experience in performing these services to the VA, other government agencies, or for private facilities. Potential sources should identify business name, point of contact, business size and any applicable business socio-economic category (i.e. small business, SDVOSB, VOSB, SB, etc), DUNS number, address, and any additional information felt to be pertinent. All vendors must be registered in SAM https://www.sam.gov/portal/public/SAM/ prior to contract award. Responses to this notice should be electronically mailed in PDF format or word format to [email protected]. Telephone responses will not be accepted. Written responses must be received no later than 3:00 PM (EST), Thursday, June 16, 2014.
Contracting Office Address:
Department of Veterans Affairs; Service Area Office East, 323 North Shore Drive, Pittsburgh PA 15212.
Delivery and Place of Performance:
Equipment is to be delivered by the Contractor to the VA Palo Alto Healthcare System.
Type of Contract:
Stand Alone Contract.
Point of Contact(s):
Cheryl Homison
Contracting Officer
412-822-3493
[email protected]
Ms. Cheryl Homison
[email protected]
