Trade Agreement: NAFTA/AIT/Canada-Peru FTA/Canada-Colombia FTA
Tendering Procedures: Generally only one firm has been invited
to bid
Attachment: None
Non-Competitive Procurement Strategy: Exclusive Rights
Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement: No
Vendor Name and Address:
GE HEALTHCARE BIO-SCIENCES INC. / GE SANTE BIO-SCIENCES INC.
500 Morgan Blvd.
Baie d'Urfé Quebec
Canada
H9X3V1
Nature of Requirements:
AKTAavant 150 Liquid Chromatograph
31184-120816/A
Hooper, Marlyn
Telephone No. - (819) 956-2702
Fax No. - (819) 956-3814
National Research Council of Canada has a requirement for the
supply, installation of one (1) AKTAavant 150 Liquid
Chromatograph with on-site user training for up to five (5)
users. For delivery to Ottawa, Ontario by March 13, 2013.
The instrument will be used to evaluate experimental conditions
for the purification of single wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNT).
It will also be used for scale-up purification of SWCNT once
optimized chromatography conditions have been established. Raw
SWCNTs are a mixture of semiconducting and metallic nanotubes.
The goal is to separate the SWCNT in which we can isolate pure
fractions of semiconducting and metallic.
The required equipment is the only commercially available
instrument which has the following features:
Scalability using the same platform from bench scale, to pilot
scale and to commercial scale (mg, g, Kg respectively).
Flow rates from 0.01 to 150 milliliters per minute.
Continuous monitoring of buffer conductivity during measurement.
Continuous monitoring of buffer pH.
Continuous monitoring ultraviolet absorbance in 190-700 mm range
at minimum three wavelengths simultaneously.
Measurements of delta column pressure.
Automatic pressure flow control (automatically changing flow to
maintain column pressure).
Integrated air sensors in flow path (detects air bubbles that
would adversely affect separation).
Integrated sample pump (for 200-500 ml injections).
Automatic on-line buffer preparation.
Software integrated with Design of Experiments.
Software that proivdes automatic protocol transfer during scale
up from bench scale to pilot scale to commercial scale (same
software used at all scales, so a process developed at small
scale has high probability of success at large scale).
The only known supplier of an AKTAavant 150 Liquid Chromatograph
meeting all required technical specifications is GE Healthcare.
For this reason, it is proposed to negotaite this requirement on
a sole source basis with GE Healthcare.
Delivery Date: Above-mentioned
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