PUR 7776 - FlowCam.pdf

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DESCRIPTION OF INTENDED

SINGLE SOURCE PURCHASE

(PUR 7776)

AGENCY: Florida Department of Environmental Protection

TITLE: FlowCam® Cyano Flow Cytometer Microscopy Imaging System Short description of the commodity or service desired: FlowCam® Cyano Flow Cytometer Microscopy Imaging System

CONTACT

Name: Kimberly Bowling Address: 3800 Commonwealth Blvd, Carr Bldg, Tallahassee, FL 32399 Telephone: 850-245-2361 Email: Kimberly.Bowling@FloridaDEP.gov

Internal tracking number, if any: 2025SS005 (SS-11328)

Date posted: January 3, 2025 Last day for receipt of information: January 27, 2025

This description of commodities or contractual services intended for purchase from a single source is posted in accordance with Sections 120.57(3) and 287.057(3), Florida Statutes (F.S.), and will remain posted for a period of at least 15 business days.

Commodity or Contractual Service Required (commodity or United National Standard Products and Services Code (UNSPSC), manufacturer, model, and description, as appropriate):

41104000 Sampling equipment 41116148 Flow cytometry test kits or supplies 41116152 Flow cytometry quality controls and calibrators and standards 41116500 Instrument parts and accessories 73171601 Scientific Instruments or Measuring Equipment Manufacturer Services

Quantity or Term (as appropriate):

Twelve (12) months

Requestor (division, bureau, office, individual, as appropriate):

Division of Ecosystems Restoration (DER), Office of Resilence and Coastal Protection (RCP) Biology Lab

Performance and/or Design Requirements (e.g. intended use, function or application, compatibility, requirements; reference to policy, rule, statute or other act of the Legislature, etc., as appropriate):

The Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) mission is to protect, conserve and manage the state’s natural resources and enforce its environmental laws pursuant to Chapter 403, FS, and Chapter 62, FAC. DEP's, Division of Ecosystems Restoration (DER), Office of Resilence and Coastal Protection (RCP), coordinates the protection of the state's coastal resources, including

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submerged lands and coastal uplands, aquatic preserves and national estuarine research reserves, and coral reef resources.

The RCP's Deepwater Horizon biology program, seeks to augment its taxonomic identification capabilities with the acquisition of an efficient flow cytometer for freshwater cyanobacteria and algal identification. The flow cytometer instrument is needed to handle the ongoing shortfall of analytical capacity created by a consistently increase of bloom response workload, cooperative bloom monitoring agreements, competing agency priority projects, and expertise gaps due to staffing turnover. To adequately meet the needs of the biology laboratory, it is imperative to obtain instrumentation to provide enhanced analytical capabilities. To adequately meet the needs of the biology laboratory, the flow cytometer system consist of a flow-through particle imaging technology specifically for use in identifying freshwater cyanobacteria and algae from surface water samples collected throughout the State of Florida.

Intended Single Source:

Yokogawa Fluid Imaging Technologies, Inc.

200 Enterprise Drive Scarborough, ME 04074

Estimated Dollar Amount:

$133,000

Justification for single source acquisition (what is necessary and unique about the product, service or source; steps taken to confirm unavailability of competition, as appropriate):

The FlowCam® Cyano is a unique digital imaging particle analyzer that allows the user to image, enumerate and classify particles in a continuous flow medium. It's ability to provide the quantification of marine and freshwater plankton for academic research and water quality monitoring and provide fluorescence data along with visual imaging (color or monochrome) of particles in a continuous flow is key to the Deepwater Horizon Program.

The FlowCam® Cyano technology is covered under various U.S. and international patents, and Yokogawa Fluid Imaging Technologies, Inc. is the sole manufacturer and sole distributor of the FlowCam® in the United States and Canada.

Approved By (names & titles, as appropriate, e.g., requestor, requestor management, information systems, budget, purchasing):

Katherine Suchanec, Environmental Specialist Kim Miller, Environmental Manager Alex Reed, Director Kimberly Bowling, Purchasing Specialist Supervisor

Prospective vendors are requested to provide information regarding their ability to supply the commodities or contractual services described. If it is determined in writing by the agency, after

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reviewing any information received from prospective vendors, that the commodities or contractual services are available only from a single source, the agency shall provide notice of its intended decision to enter a single-source purchase contract in the manner specified in Rule 60A- 1.045, Florida Administrative Code, and section 120.57(3), F.S.