MALDI-ToF Equipment Purchase

The Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration, Veterans Integrated Service Network 20 seeks to purchase a MALDI-ToF mass spectrometry system for microbial identification, with quotes due June 15, 2026 at 4:00 PM Pacific Time. This is an unrestricted full and open competition using simplified acquisition procedures under FAR 12, with award anticipated as a firm-fixed price purchase order.

Place of performance is Seattle, Washington at the Puget Sound VA Medical Center's Microbiology Lab. The procurement specifies the Bruker Scientific MALDI Biotyper sirius CA System as the brand name, but accepts equal products. Contractors must be an Original Equipment Manufacturer, authorized distributor, or authorized reseller with verification letter.

The required equipment package includes the MALDI Biotyper sirius CA System, MBT Compass HT software, MBT HT Filamentous Fungi Module, MBT Filamentous Fungi Library Extension, MBT HT Sepsityper Module, MBT Sepsityper Kit US IVD, UPS POWERVAR uninterruptible power supply, delivery, installation, and application training (2 days onsite and 1 day offsite). The system must be FDA-approved and compatible with current and planned Oracle/Cerner Electronic Health Record systems.

Salient characteristics include benchtop design weighing 75 kilograms or less, operation on standard 110-volt power with maximum 400-watt consumption, quiet operation below 50 decibels, broad operating temperature and humidity ranges, processing capability of up to 600 samples per hour, and self-cleaning laser ion source technology. The period of performance is 90 days after receipt of order. NAICS code is 334516, Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing. Evaluation is based on price only.