1086722 Zasada qPCR Requirements List.pdf

Brand Name or Equal

411.170 Brand name or equal.

(a) A "brand name or equal" purchase description shall include the following type of information:

(i) Identification of the item by generic description.

(ii) Make, model number, catalog designation, or other description, and identification of a commercial catalog where it is listed.

(iii) Name of manufacturer, producer, or distributor of the item and complete address.

(iv) All salient characteristics of the "brand name or equal" product or products which have been determined by the requisitioner to be essential to the Government's minimum requirements.

Brand name or equal requested due to below list of functional and performance characteristics that this particular model possesses.

Item:

Requirements:

- The instrument comes in either 0.1 mL 96-well or 0.2 mL 96-well plate block formats.

- The instrument does not require a technician visit for installation and can be set up by the end user directly out of the box without a need for a computer.

- The instrument installation protocol includes an optional RNase P verification plate run to verify performance.

- Instrument installation does not require dye calibration.

- The instrument’s block is accessible from the front of the instrument to maximize bench space, and is fully motorized.

- The instrument’s dimensions are 27Wx 50D x 40H cm for maximum bench space.

- The 96-well sample block is made up of at least 3 separate Peltier elements and can allow a maximum difference in temperature between adjacent blocks of 5°C.

- The instrument block has a temperature range of 4–99.9°C and can be used with 100–240 V outlets without modification or special plug requirements.

- The instrument’s touchscreen interface allows users to load template (.edt) files from a USB drive, local area network, or the instrument platform.

- The instrument’s touchscreen interface allows users to designate a destination for completed run files and can export to a USB drive or local area network.

- The instrument has real-time quantitative PCR installation specifications to demonstrate the ability to distinguish 5,000 template copies from 10,000 copies at a 99.7% confidence level.

- The instrument software allows flexible customization of run protocols.

- The instrument software is designed to export all run results, including raw and analyzed data, to a Microsoft Excel sheet, and save all graphs as .jpg files.

- The instrument online software provides the ability to import a standard curve from one plate for analysis of another plate of the same instrument type.

Suggested Item: Applied Biosystems QuantStudio 3 Real-Time PCR System, Vendor Catalog # A28567