Trade Agreement: CETA / WTO-AGP / NAFTA / FTAs with Peru / Colombia / Panama / Korea
Tendering Procedures: Generally only one firm has been invited to bid
Non-Competitive Procurement Strategy: Purchases Made Under Exceptionally Advantageous Cond. Short Term
Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement: No
Vendor Name and Address:
Molecular Devices, LLC
1311 Orleans Drive
Sunnyvale California
United States
94089
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 contracting officer may then proceed with the award to the pre-identified supplier.
2-Definition of the requirement
The National Research Council of Canada (NRC) wants to maintain its emphasis on the high-throughput generation of new monoclonal antibodies for diagnostic and therapeutic applications. NRC also want identify best secretors from a pool of CHO mammalian cells expressing various recombinant proteins and antibodies.
Within this mandate, the NRC wishes to purchase a mammalian cell clone picker Clonepix2 system. This instrument allow for the evaluation of secreted product from clones to distinguish a secretor clone from a non-secretor one, or select best secretor clones from an heterogenous population.
Constraints:
The footprint of the system, including compressor and computer, should not exceed 2 m2
3-Criteria for assessment of the Statement of Capabilities (Minimum Essential Requirements)
Any interested supplier must demonstrate by way of a statement of capabilities that its product/equipment/system (as appropriate) meets the following requirements:
The delivered equipment must have the following specifications:
-The proposed mammalian cell fluorescent clone picker system must be equipped with a white light imaging, both for epi- and trans-illumination.
-The proposed mammalian cell fluorescent clone picker system must be equipped with fluorescent imaging LED system, with 5 independent emission and excitation filters, as following:
Filter set, excitation 470nm, emission 535 nm (FITC)
Filter set, excitation 440 nm, emission 505 nm (CFP)
Filter set, excitation 500 nm, emission 550 nm (YFP)
Filter set, excitation 530 nm, emission 590 nm (PE-R Rhodamine DS Red)
Filter set, excitation 623 nm, emission 700 nm (Cy5)
-The proposed mammalian cell fluorescent clone picker system must be equipped with a 16-bit cooled CCD camera
-The proposed mammalian cell fluorescent clone picker system must be equipped with an automated pin washing, sterilizing and drying station.
-The proposed mammalian cell fluorescent clone picker system must be equipped with a fully enclosed working environment with Class 100 HEPA filtration and timer controlled UV light sterilization.
-The proposed mammalian cell fluorescent clone picker system must be equipped with a 10-source and 10-destination plate stacker.
-The proposed mammalian cell fluorescent clone picker system must be equipped with a barcode reading capabilities for source and destination plates.
-The proposed mammalian cell fluorescent clone picker system must include all necessary hardware and software essential to its full operation.
-The proposed mammalian cell fluorescent clone picker system must be able to pick clones at a pace of at least 200 clones / hour.
-The proposed mammalian cell fluorescent clone picker system must be able to identify, select, and pick clones with a high viability (>95%).
-The proposed mammalian cell fluorescent clone picker system must be equipped with an 8-pin picking head, with each pin independently controlled for precision picking.
-The proposed mammalian cell fluorescent clone picker system must be equipped with pin height sensors.
-The proposed mammalian cell fluorescent clone picker system must have a picking efficiency greater than 90%.
-The proposed mammalian cell fluorescent clone picker system software must allow for the export of images in TIFF format and data in Excel XML or ASCII format.
4-Applicability of the trade agreement(s) to the procurement
This procurement is subject to the following trade agreements:
-Canadian Free Trade Agreement (CFTA)
-World Trade Organization - Agreement on Government Procurement (WTO-AGP)
-North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
-Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA)
5-Set-aside under the Procurement Strategy for Aboriginal Business
N/A
6-Comprehensive Land Claims Agreement(s)
N/A
7-Justification for the Pre-Identified Supplier
The supplier must be able to provide an equipment that comply with all the criteria mentioned at point 3 of this notice. To PWGSC’s knowledge, only Molecular Devices is able to provide this equipment.
8-Government Contracts Regulations Exception(s)
The following exception to the Government Contracts Regulations is invoked for this procurement under subsection 6(d) - "only one person is capable of performing the work".
9-Exclusions and/or Limited Tendering Reasons
The following exclusion(s) and/or limited tendering reasons are invoked under the (section of the trade agreement(s) specified):
-Canadian Free Trade Agreement (CFTA) - Article 513 par .b)
-World Trade Organization - Agreement on Government Procurement (WTO-AGP) - Article XV par. 1.b)
-North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) - Article 1016 par. 2.b)
-Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) - Article 19.12 par. 1.b.iii)
10-Ownership of Intellectual Property
N/A
11-Period of the proposed contract or delivery date
The work consists of supply, delivery, installation of the system at the NRC address and training on equipment use; all of the work must be completed by March 29th, 2018.
12-Cost estimate of the proposed contract
The estimated value of the contract, including option(s), is between 330 000$ and 350 000$ (GST/HST extra).
13-Name and address of the pre-identified supplier
Molecular Devices
1311 Orleans Drive
Sunnyvale, CA 94089
14-Suppliers' right to submit a statement of capabilities
Suppliers who consider themselves fully qualified and available to provide the goods, services or construction services described in the ACAN may submit a statement of capabilities in writing to the contact person identified in this notice on or before the closing date of this notice. The statement of capabilities must clearly demonstrate how the supplier meets the advertised requirements.
15-Closing date for a submission of a statement of capabilities
The closing date and time for accepting statements of capabilities is February 22nd, 2018 at 2:00 p.m. EST.
16-Inquiries and submission of statements of capabilities
Inquiries and statements of capabilities are to be directed to:
Denis Leporé
Telephone: (514) 701-6852
Facsimile: (514) 496-3822
E-mail: d••••••••@••••••••.••.ca
Delivery Date: Above-mentioned
You are hereby notified that the government intends to negotiate with one firm only as identified above. Should you have any questions concerning this requirement, contact the contracting officer identified above.
An Advance Contract Award Notice (ACAN) allows departments and agencies to post a notice, for no less than fifteen (15) calendar days, indicating to the supplier community that it intends to award a good, service or construction contract to a pre-identified contractor. If no other supplier submits, on or before the closing date, a Statement of Capabilities that meets the requirements set out in the ACAN, the contracting authority may then proceed with the award. However, should a Statement of Capabilities be found to meet the requirements set out in the ACAN, then the contracting authority will proceed to a full tendering process.
Suppliers who consider themselves fully qualified and available to provide the services/goods described herein, may submit a statement of capabilities in writing to the contact person identified in this Notice on or before the closing date of this Notice. The statement of capabilities must clearly demonstrate how the supplier meets the advertised requirements.
The PWGSC file number, the contracting officer's name and the closing date of the ACAN must appear on the outside of the envelope in block letters or, in the case of a facsimile transmission, on the covering page.
The Crown retains the right to negotiate with suppliers on any procurement.
Documents may be submitted in either official language of Canada.
