B-48362 Viken Emergency Purchase Statement~1.pdf

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EMERGENCY PURCHASE STATEMENT

State of Illinois Chief Procurement Office for General Services Emergency Purchase Statement V.25.2 Page of

EMERGENCY PURCHASE STATEMENT

Page of State of Illinois Chief Procurement Office for General Services Emergency Purchase Statement V.25.2 Emergency Purchase Details Emergency Category (select the appropriate option from the drop-down menu below):

Reason for selection of this particular vendor:

Description of supplies or services to be provided:

Emergency procurements shall be made with as much competition as is practicable under the circumstances, and agencies shall utilize best efforts to include contractors certified under the Business Enterprise Program in its emergency procurement process. 30 ILCS 500/20-30(a).

List the actions taken by the agency that constitute its best efforts to include contractors certified under the Business Enterprise Program in this emergency purchase:

Is there an existing State contract available for the required supplies or services?

If Yes is checked above, explain why the existing contract does not meet the need:

Actual or Estimated*:

*Estimated end date and cost will be reported later.

Select the type of funding to be used:

Signature This emergency purchase was made with as much competition as is practicable under the circumstances. Best efforts were utilized to include contractors certified under the Business Enterprise Program in the process.

I am authorized to make this emergency purchase, and I know and understand the contents of this statement and all statements herein are true and correct to the best of my knowledge.

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“Pb ID” - Lead Detection - The Viken Nighthawk - BTX includes a 120 or 140 KeV X-ray source designed to deliver high quality Backscatter Images. These X-rays are purely for imaging purposes and are not capable of locating concealed lead compartments in a particular conveyance. Recognizing this as a major vulnerability, Customs and Border Patrol collaborated with Viken Detection to develop a field ready solution. To accomplish this Viken detection has added internal Cadmium Telluride detectors which allows the user to be instantly alerted if Lead is detected. This feature called “Pb ID” provides true material identification for lead. No one else in the industry has the capability. The Nighthawk Imaging platform can be outfitted with this capability at order placement, or it can be added at a later time. In either case Viken Detection is the only supplier in the world that can offer this capability. This is vitally important because of the limited training that officers receive and their relative inexperience looking at X¬ ray images. If an officer were to scan a conveyance that contained a lead compartment, they would see a completely clear image on their operating screen. This is because X-rays are absorbed by the lead, and they are unable to penetrate this medium. An inexperienced officer may logically conclude that no threat exists. However, with the Viken Detection Nighthawk imager if lead is detected, during scanning, the user receives an immediate signal indicating that lead is present. The vehicle or object can then be moved to secondary inspection for further screening. Viken Detection is the only vendor that offers this unique feature.

“True automated lead detection requires the addition of an energy-dispersive detector to the backscatter imager and software that can automatically analyze the acquired spectrum for the presence of lead K-Alpha lines. The detector can be either a Cadmium Telluride (CdTe) or Cadmium Zinc Telluride (CZT) type. If the imager does not contain either of these two detector types, it does not have real lead detection capability.”