SOLICITATION NOTICE
66 -- Laboratory Apparatus
- Notice Date
- 8/18/2004
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 339111
— Laboratory Apparatus and Furniture Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, Food and Drug Administration, Office of Acquisitions and Grants Services, 5630 Fishers Lane, Room 2129, Rockville, MD, 20857-0001
- ZIP Code
- 20857-0001
- Solicitation Number
- F8219004
- Response Due
- 8/28/2004
- Archive Date
- 9/12/2004
- Point of Contact
- Alice Pag?n, Contract Specialist, Phone (301) 827-7104, Fax (301) 827-7101, - Hamilton Brown, Contract Specialist, Phone (301) 827-7043, Fax (301) 827-7101,
- E-Mail Address
-
APagan@oc.fda.gov, hbrown@oc.fda.gov
- Description
- The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) intends to award a Purchase Order on a sole source basis to Cepheid, 904 Caribbean Drive, Sunnyvale, CA 94089-1302, the sole manufacturer of the Smart Cycler II System. The Smart Cycler II System is a real time PCR instrument. It can be used to detect DNA targets from human pathogens, such as Listeria monocytogenes, that may be found naturally in or deliberately added to foods and other products regulated by the FDA/CFSAN. Some of the features and functions of the Smart Cycler System are: 1. The real-time thermocycler must have 16 individually programmable sample processing sites using either 25 uL and/or 100 uL optically integrated reaction tubes. 2. The real-time thermocycler must utilize unbreakable polypropylene sample reaction tubes, with a high surface to volume ratio; not glass capillary-based (amenable to easy breakage, especially in field use). 3. The real time thermocycler must be expandable to 96 sample reaction sites, and yet maintain the ability to independently program each sample reaction site. 4. Each of the individual reaction sites must have it?s own independent thermal cycling and optical control system, with the ability to accurately record all thermal and spectral (fluorescent) measurements for each sample reaction site. 5. The thermocycler must have the capability to detect four spectral bands using high?intensity LED emitters and silicon detectors for 4 color real-time, simultaneous, optical excitation and detection; allowing the capability to monitor in true real time up to 4 different targets in one sample. 6. The instrument must be factory calibrated to optimally detect the following 4 fluorescent dyes simultaneously; FAM, Cy3, Texas Red, Cy5 or FAM, TET, Texas Red, Cy5, for either Taqman, Beacon, Scorpion, Amplifluor fluorescent probes. Additonally, the instrument must be capable of melt-curve anlysis when SYBR green chemistries are being employed. 7. The thermocycler software must be capable of performing and illustrating 2nd derivative threshold cycle analysis, for efficient and accurate quantitative anlysis. 8. The thermocycler software must be capable of automatically advancing to next stage after Ct crossing. 9. The thermocycler must be capable of rapid, real time PCR experimental analysis; sample amplification and analysis must be able to be performed in as few as 20 to 30 minutes. 10. The thermocycler must have the capability to be easily transported with a ruggized hardened carrying case. An award will be made ten (10) days from the date of this notice. Sources which believe that can provide a product with the same specifications and requirements must submit descriptive literature, which fully demonstrate the capabilities of the product. The FDA will review and consider these submissions in making its award decision. The award will be made as a simplified acquisition in accordance with FAR 13.5
- Place of Performance
- Address: DHHS/FDA/CFSAN, 5100 PAINT BRANCH PARKWAY, COLLEGE PARK, MD
- Zip Code: 20740-3835
- Country: USA
- Zip Code: 20740-3835
- Record
- SN00646216-W 20040820/040818211811 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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