SOURCES SOUGHT
68 -- Manufacture ELISA kits
- Notice Date
- 1/4/2007
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 325413
— In-Vitro Diagnostic Substance Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Department of Agriculture, Food Safety and Inspection Service, Acquisitions and Agreements Section, 5601 Sunnyside Avenue, Mail drop 5230, Beltsville, MD, 20705, UNITED STATES
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- Reference-Number-FSIS-84607
- Response Due
- 1/31/2007
- Archive Date
- 2/15/2007
- Description
- ARS Evaluation and Validation: Vendor Identification: The United States Department of Agriculture, Food Safety Inspection Service (USDA/FSIS) is conducting market research to identify vendors that manufacture live animal antibiotic and sulfonamide multi-residue Enzyme Linked Immunosorbant Assay (ELISA) kits for tissue fluids (urine and/or serum) to meet FSIS needs. Overall program/project objectives: After vendor identification, FSIS is requesting that a third party, the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) evaluate and validate current live animal antibiotic and sulfonamide multi-residue Enzyme Linked Immunosorbant Assay (ELISA) kits for tissue fluids (urine and/or serum) to meet FSIS needs. Background: The Federal Meat Inspection Act and the Poultry Products Inspection Act are the basis for FSIS regulatory program to protect the public from adulterated meat and poultry products. Drugs, pesticides, and other chemicals used in animal husbandry practices as well as environmental contaminants may result in the adulteration of meat and poultry products because their presence in animal tissues may exceed regulatory tolerance levels. FSIS issued the Pathogen Reduction-Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point Systems (PR/HACCP) final rule in 1996 as a means to modernize its system of food safety regulations. Under PR/HACCP, federally inspected establishments are expected to take preventive as well as corrective measures at each of the food production processing steps and consider what food safety hazards (including drug, pesticide, and other chemical contaminant residues) can occur before, during, and after entry into an establishment. In November 2000, FSIS published a Federal Register notice announcing its intention to reconsider how PR/HACCP should affect its approach to controlling residues in or on meat and poultry products. Although improvements have been made in reducing the amount of residues detected in meat and poultry products, violations continue to persist. In an effort to support establishments developing more effective systems of residue control and to fulfill an FSIS mission that firmly positions the National Residue Program into a HACCP environment, FSIS is encouraging producers, establishments and inspection personnel to use live animal testing for antibiotics and sulfonamides prior to slaughtering. Testing live animals will enable establishments to determine whether an animal has potentially violative levels of antibiotic residues in its tissues. Knowing this will allow establishment personnel to reduce economic losses from slaughtering animals that may be later condemned because of violative levels of residues. This in turn may decrease the amount of drug residues entering the food chain. Using live animal testing will benefit everyone,industry, FSIS, and the consumer - invested in food safety. Request for Information: To validate the multi-residue ELISA kits available in the market, FSIS is seeking sources capable of providing FSIS with a single in-plant test that is capable of detecting multiple antibiotic residues at tolerance levels in urine and/or serum. The respondent will need to submit data on a range of drugs from each compound class as well as a description of the protocol used to determine the limits of detection, which should reflect tests run in an appropriate matrix (serum or tissue). After reviewing the submitted data, FSIS may request additional information. Respondents will need to describe the method used to determine the limits of detection and the limits of detection for each drug tested. A complete description of the procedure, along with estimated times required per analysis, should also be submitted. FSIS is searching for vendors who can provide ELISA test kits having the following desirable characteristics: Screen multiple tissues from multiple animal species High sensitivity (close to drug tolerance levels) Economical Rapid turnaround time Suitable for in-plant use Minimal instrumentation, simple equipment, easy to use No requirement for organic solvents, toxic reagents, or radioactive constituents Practical for establishments having multiple shifts If your company is a source capable of providing such a test please respond to this Sources Sought Synopsis with your company information to include identifying if your company is a small or large business along with pricing information. The NAICS Code for this notice is 325413 and the small business size standard is 500 employees. This notice is not a request for proposals and the Government does not intend to pay for information submitted. Respondents will not be notified of the results of the evaluation of the information they provide. No contract award will be made on the basis of responses received; however, the information will be used in FSIS assessment of capable sources. Responses should be submitted by January 30, 2007. Faxed responses are not permitted. Questions concerning this announcement may be submitted via email only, no telephone inquires will be honored. Questions and Responses may be submitted by email to deborah.robertson@fsis.usda.gov; or by mail to Deborah Robertson at USDA, FSIS, ASD, 5601 Sunnyside Avenue, Mail Drop 5230, Beltsville, MD 20705; or by fax at 301-504-4276.
- Place of Performance
- Address: USDA, FSIS, OPHS, 901 D. Street, SW, Aerospace Bldg., Room 333, Washington, DC
- Zip Code: 20024
- Country: UNITED STATES
- Zip Code: 20024
- Record
- SN01205021-W 20070106/070104220155 (fbodaily.com)
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