10 MHz Digital Monchrome Camera

(RECOVERY ACT) The National Institute on Aging, IRP intends to negotiateand award a purchase order on a competitive basis for the purchase of a 10 MHz Digital Monochrome Camera with charge multiplication gain capability air-cooled, MetaMorph Basic Software, with complete microscope control option under the Simplified AcquisitionsProcedures. This notice may represent the only official notice.

In the lab of Cardiovascular Services (LCS); at the National Institute of Aging, this equipment purchase will enable the lab to perform single molecule bioenergetics in which the lab isolates a single molecule of ATP synthase, and under direct microscope observation measure simultaneously single icon channel currents coupled to icon gradient-driven ATP synthesis measured by extremely low light noise-to-signal, cooled photon-counting detector (EMCCD) camera coupled to a microscope with the most efficient light collection system sealed in a light-tight box. The lab will also measure the rotational dynamics of a water wheel-shaped part of ATP synthase coupled to the icon flow responsible for this rotation. In addition this equipment purchase will improve resolution for vascular measurement in mice providing more reliable data.

Interested persons may indentify their interest and capability to respond to the requirement or submit proposals. This notice is a request for competitive proposals. However, all proposals received prior to June 28, 2009 will be considered by the Federal Government.A determination by the Government not to compete with this proposed contract based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Federal Government.

This is a solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in FAR Subpart 16.2 using competitive procedures. Theses procedures include those indentified under Subparts 6.1, 6.2 (Full and Open Competition and Full and Open Competition after Exclusions of Sources), and FAR Section 16.505(b) (1). The solicitation number is NIHAG2009083, and is issued as a Request for Quotation (RFQ). This solicitation document and incorporated provisions clauses are those in which the FAR has amended to incorporate for the use in RECOVERY ACT actions FAR Subpart 5.7 for pre-solicitation and award notices. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code is 333314 and the business size standard is 500.

The National Institute of Aging requires the following equipment:



10 MHz Digital Monochrome Camera MetaMorph Basic Software

Only electronic offers will be accepted. Offers are due to Pam Paradis at paradisp@mail.nih/gov by the close of business on June 1, 2009. NIA/IRP, BRC Blding., Room 04C009, 251 Bayview Blvd., Baltimore, MD 21224.