Exhibit B Performance Reqs Specs.pdf

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EXHIBIT B – PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS

Competitive Solicitation: No. DOH25 –017P

Bidder: _________________________________ Type/print full legal name of bidder company

Instructions:

Bidders submitting a proposal must complete and submit an Exhibit B for evaluation purposes.

Performance Requirements: Bidder must respond to each requirement as noted in the instructions below.

1. Review all requirements, priorities and provided definitions:

• Mandatory Pass/Fail (M): Minimum requirement; Bidder that does not meet this requirement will not be considered any further.

• Mandatory Scored (MS): Critical requirement; evaluators will score based on the degree to which Bidder's response meets the requirement.

• Desirable Scored (DS): Desirable requirement; evaluators will score based on the degree to which Bidder's response meets the requirement.

2. Using the Bidder Meets Requirement column, Bidder must select either a "Yes" or "No" to indicate the Bidder's ability to meet the requirement. Any entry that is not either a "Yes" or "No", may be deemed non-responsive and will not be considered any further.

3. Bidder must respond in the Written Response column for every requirement that indicates a "Written Response Required”. Written responses must not reference any material present elsewhere. The written response shall be considered complete and stand on its own merits or may be deemed non-responsive.

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PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS AND FACTORS

REQ ID Performance Requirement and Stated Business Need

Points Available

Priority Bidder’s Compliance Written Response

1. Alpha / Beta Discrimination

The instrument must be able to detect both alpha and beta particles and be able to differentiate one from the other.

• Alpha into beta spillover must be ≤1.0% for pure alpha emitters.

• Beta into Alpha spillover ≤0.1% for Sr-90/Y-90

MS ☐ Yes ☐ No

2. Beta energy range

100 – 2,000 keV energy range for beta particles

☐ Yes

3. Energy measurement windows

The instrument must have a minimum of Two

(2) user-adjustable energy. This means that users shall be able to set the lower and upper energy bounds for each window in order to measure decay events that occur within specific ranges.

___points

OR

Pass/Fail

☐ Yes ☐ No

Number of Windows: __

1 point for each window beyond 2 to a maximum of 10 points.

4. Data storage

The instrument must save raw data including alpha and beta counts, count duration, date and time of count, sample carrier identification, count protocol, counting batch identification and optionally sample identification information. This data must be

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Stated Business Need

Points Available

Priority Bidder’s Compliance Written Response saved indefinitely, so that count data from previous batches may be recalled in the future, notwithstanding the event of storage device failure.

5. Software

The instrument shall include control software with the following minimum features:

• High-voltage plateau determination routines.

• Setup for instrument efficiency calibration for multiple protocols (both alpha and beta).

• Facilities to auto-count and record data from alpha, beta and blank check sources, and present the data

• in tabular and control-chart forms, with user-settable control limits.

• Facilities to automate batch-counting of samples that include automatic replicate counting both by immediate repeats or by re-stacking and recounting all samples in a batch.

• Ability for user to specify count times from

• Ability to include automatic counting of machine standards and blanks as part of sample batch counting protocols (e.g. count the standards, then the samples, then restack and

☐ Yes ☐ No

[ ] Yes [ ] No (fail)

List Efficiencies for a, b and c.

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Stated Business Need

Points Available

Priority Bidder’s Compliance Written Response count the standards and samples again).

Data analysis to calculate blank and background-corrected sample alpha and beta activity concentrations in user-selectable units (e.g. pCi/L, Bq/cubic meter, etc.). Software must also be able to calculate combined standard uncertainty at a user-defined coverage factor and minimum detectable activity at user defined confidence intervals for type I and II errors.

6. Data analysis

The instrument software must be able to display, print and provide tools to reanalyze the data that has been saved for each sample.

7. Sample tracking

The instrument software must provide a capability to unequivocally match sample data count rate and spectral data with rack position, date and time.

8 Data availability

The instrument software must be able to present gross count, count rate and all other stored data by printing, and export the data in formats that include ASCII text (e.g. text files in universal formats such as comma separated value, extensible markup language, etc.). The

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Stated Business Need

Points Available

Priority Bidder’s Compliance Written Response instrument must be able to transfer this data to portable data storage devices including USB thumb drives and via TCP/IP network.

9. Sample Handling and Capacity

The instrument must be able to accommodate analytical runs of at least 50 samples. The instrument must accommodate industry standard planchets with 5mm high walls and 47mm diameter.

10. Efficiency

The instrument must be able to achieve the following efficiencies using sources that fit within the sample carriers:

a. Sr-90 Beta Efficiency ≥ 40%

b. Pu-239 Alpha Efficiency ≥ 25%

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OR

Pass/Fail

☐ Yes ☐ No

[ ] Yes [ ] No (fail)

List Efficiencies for a, b and c.

1 point will be awarded for each 0.5 percent efficiency above the minimums in each area a and b up to 10 points total.

11. Background

The instrument must be able to achieve the following background count rate criteria (in counts per minute; cpm):

a. Gross Beta < 0.90 cpm.

b. Gross Alpha < 0.25 cpm

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OR

Pass/Fail

1 point will be awarded for each 0.2 cpm below the maximum backgrounds in a and b up to 10 points total.

12. Reliability

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Stated Business Need

Points Available

Priority Bidder’s Compliance Written Response

The instrument is expected to routinely perform sample measurements around the clock for months at a time without failure or required service. Routine recommended maintenance intervals should not exceed once every 6 months.

13. Reliability (Up-time)

Instrument IS NOT prone to frequent breakdown AND is fully operational at least 90% of the time. Reasonable standard applies.

14. Service Agreement

Manufacturer must quote an annual service agreement price as part of the bid and honor that price commitment for service agreements to be purchased for the five (5) years following expiration of the original warranty period, as a separate line item.

15. Service availability

The vendor must be able to provide a service agreement that includes on-site response to service calls within three (3) business days.

Return this exhibit to Procurement Coordinator at:

Bids@doh.wa.gov