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This is a notice of intent, not a request for a quotation. A solicitation document will not be issued and quotations will not be requested.
The Government intends to award a fixed price purchase order to Rees Scientific, Trenton, NJ 08638.
The Department of Transfusion Medicine (DTM) is a unique blood center which 1) collects blood and blood components from healthy donors to treat patients participating in many protocols. 2) Many components are collected to support biomedical research performed in laboratories at NIH and 3) patients also donate blood products to determine the therapeutic benefit of removing various blood components or to obtain blood components needed to treat their medical condition. Numerous regulatory authorities, specifically the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and American Association of Blood Bank (AABB), set policy and enforce the policy fin-monitoring of equipment that is used in support of the above. The equipment includes the monitoring of freezers, refrigerators and incubators. Environmental monitoring systems and related computer software and hardware used in this complex setting and must be extremely flexible and provide features not found in most systems.
The Rees Centron Environmental monitoring system offered by Rees Scientific, Trentonn, NJ is the only company which has an Environmental Monitoring System that will meet DTM requirements and provides features not found in most systems. Our equipment includes freezers, refrigerators, incubators, which must have ambient temperature and moisture monitoring for our blood and blood products. Environmental monitoring systems and related computer software and hardware used in this complex setting must be extremely flexible and provide features not found in most systems. This Rees system has been in place for over a decade and a change in the service could adversely affect products maintained and would render us a non-compliant if not the (Rees) manufacturer. Numerous regulatory authorities, specifically the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and American Association of Blood Bank (AABB), set policy and enforce this policy for care and maintenance of equipment that is used in support of donors and patients per the above. These parameters conditions are monitored via dedicated, validate-able, probes within the manufacturing environment which is a regulatory requirement.
Andre M. Moody, Contract Specialist, Phone 3014022677, Fax 3015945920, Email moodya@cc.nih.gov
