Trade Agreement: WTO-AGP/NAFTA/AIT/Canada FTAs with Peru/Colombia/Panama
Tendering Procedures: Generally only one firm has been invited to bid
Non-Competitive Procurement Strategy: Exclusive Rights
Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement: No
Vendor Name and Address:
AB Sciex LP
71 Four Valley Dr
Concord Ontario
Canada
L4K4V8
Nature of Requirements:
1. Advance Contract Award Notice (ACAN)
An ACAN is a public notice indicating to the supplier community that a department or agency intends to award a contract for goods, services or construction to a pre-identified supplier, thereby allowing other suppliers to signal their interest in bidding, by submitting a statement of capabilities. If no supplier submits a statement of capabilities that meets the requirements set out in the ACAN, on or before the closing date stated in the ACAN, the contractingofficer may then proceed with the award to the pre-identified supplier.
2. Definition of the requirement
Health Canada has a requirement for the supply and installation of 2 LC-MS/MS with user training for up to 3-4 persons for delivery to Ottawa, Ontario. The delivery is required by 31st March 2016.
3. Criteria for assessment of the Statement of Capabilities
Any interested supplier must demonstrate by way of a statement of capabilities that its system meets the following requirements:
The equipment is required to measure baseline levels of priority chemicals, including those mandated under the Government of Canada Chemicals Management Plan (CMP), and is essential for data collection in a timely manner to support regulatory activities. This equipment is necessary in order to collect ultra-low level exposure data in a wide variety of food matrices that is required for risk management decisions and setting compliance levels for these chemicals.
The new system must be equipped with a Differential ion mobility separation (DMS) technology to distinguish isobaric metabolites and to remove isobaric matrix interferences resulting in a reduction in chemical background noise. The new system must be equipped with an off-axis curved LINAC collision cell to prevent neutral molecules entering the last quadrupole analyzer and the ion detection system, thus reduce the noise and lower the limit of detection. In order to analyze high molecular weight analytes (such as long-chain perfluorinated compounds), the new system must have a mass range of both quadrupole mass analyzers not less than 2,000 Da. The new system must have a scanning speed of both quadrupoles not slower than 12,000 Da/sec in all MS/MS scanning modes to obtain enough data points for the ever-narrower UPLC peaks. For multiple analyte analyses, the new system must have a minimum MRM cycle time (including the dwell time and inter-channel setting time) not slower than 5 msec. The responses under this rapid MRM transitionsmust not be different from long dwell time settings (e.g. 100 ms dwell and 10 msec inter-channel setting time). The new system must have a fast polarity switching (
