Tecan Buffy Coat Aliquot Workstation IDIQ with hardware, software, installation, warranty, integration, software, training for base plus 4 option yrs and extended maintenance for 4 option years

The Department of Veterans Affairs intends to negotiate and award a contract to procure a Buffy Coat Aliquot Workstation for aliquoting human blood fractions with extended warranty, hardware/software maintenance/support and training from Tecan U.S., Inc., 9401 Globe Center Drive, Morrisville, NC 27560-2622 to be integrated with the same equipment previously purchased to support reproducibility of research results for a high throughput large scale genomics study. The contractor shall provide all labor, materials, installation, training and maintenance for the Automated Blood Aliquoting System, a robotic Automated Liquid Handling (ALH) processing system for aliquoting human blood fractions, for the VA Medical Center Boston, MA. Vacutainer blood tubes will be added to or input into the system. On addition of blood tubes, the system will read the bar-coded identifier on the tube and make a record of the ID. The system will include an automated decapper that will remove the caps from the blood tubes. The system will determine the locations of the blood fractions (plasma, buffy coat, red cells) within the tube with accurate precision. The robotic system will automatically remove specified volumes of each fraction and separately aliquot into specified racks of 2D bar-coded cryovials or deep well plates. The system will output separate racks of aliquots to be transferred to freezer/cryogenic storage, or other relevant lab processes such as Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) extraction. The system will track sample identifiers, specimen type, aliquot volume, cryovial identifier, and sample location (rack ID and location within rack), and maintain a complete audit trail. The solicitation will be released on or about 4/28/14 on a sole source basis to Tecan U.S., Inc., the only known source of this robotic Automated Liquid Handling processing system, part number us4525-SPS for aliquoting human blood fractions. The applicable NAICS code is 334516. The FSC/PSC is 6640. The authority for this action is FAR 6.302.1-1 Only One Responsible Source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements.



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