Trade Agreement: WTO-AGP/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:
NU INSTRUMENTS LTD
UNIT 74 CLYWEDOG ROAD SOUTH
United Kingdom
LL13 9XS
Nature of Requirements:
MASS SPECTROMETER (HR-ICP-MS)
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.
Definition of requirement
The RCMP, Materials Profiling, Forensic Science & Identification
Services, have the requirement for the supply, installation,
training and manuals for one (1) double-focusing high-resolution
Inductively Coupled Plasma - Mass Spectrometer system (df
HR-ICP-MS).
Criteria for assessment of the Statement of Capabilities
Any interested supplier must demonstrate by way of a statement
of capabilities that its equipment meets the following
requirements:
All of the following mandatory requirements must be met:
1. Compatibility With Other External Devices
a) The instrument must be fully compatible and demonstrate full
software control/integration for an ArF-excimer UP193fx laser
ablation system (ESI-New Waves Research) and must have the
option to be triggered by the laser for long pre-programmed
sequence analysis (>150 analyses/sequence). NOTE: A
communication cable between the mass spectrometer and the laser
ablation system must be supplied with the new instrument to make
that communication.
b) The instrument must be compatible and demonstrate full
software control/ integration of an Elemental Scientific Inc.
(ESI) autosampler (SC-2 DX autosampler and FASTValve system).
2. Instrument Software
a) The software must have the capacity to switch off the
instrument automatically at the end of a pre-programmed sequence.
b) It must demonstrate the capability to acquire data in Time
Resolved Analysis (TRA; M+ cps vs time) for laser ablation work
with exportable data file compatible to off-line data processing
GLITTER? software.
c) Must have an open source operating software that allows
end-user operator to adapt or modify specific calculation and/or
data monitoring/correction.
3. Instrument Accessories
a) The instrument must come with 5 Mass Flow Controllers
including 2 "dedicated" ones for other applications such as
laser ablation (at least one of the "dedicated" MFC calibrated
for helium; 2l/min). They all must be controllable via the
instrument software.
b) A recirculating water chiller must come with the instrument
with recommended heat exchange capacity. If an extra chiller is
required for a second function, then it must respect the
recommended heat capacity as required.
c) The system must come with all the regular glassware
accessories (torch, spray chamber, PFA nebulizer) normally used
for an installation test and one set of skimmer and sampler
cones (Ni or Al).
d) Software license, software CD (or other memory device),
software document and technical application notes.
4. Instrument Specifications - ICP-MS instrumen
§ State-of-the-art electronics.
§ Fast scan technology for laser ablation analysis.
§ Low dark noise 1x109 cps/ppm for 115In at low resolution
(300 Resolving Power).
§ A true linear dynamic range up to 10+9 cps in pulse counting
mode for better isotopic ratio measurements in order to avoid
continual changing of cross-over calibration between
pulse-counting and analog mode.
§ Easy access spray chamber and sample interface.
§ Must be a double-focusing magnetic sector with magnet and
electrostatic analyzer (ESA) for flat top peak isotopic
measurement.
§ Electro magnet fully laminated allowing fast peak jumping with
extremely low hysteresis.
§ Quantitative analysis including external calibration (laser
and solution modes), standard additions, isotope ratios, isotope
dilution and semi-quantitative methods must be part of the
software.
§ The collector system must include an electron multiplier
detector for pulse counting mode (up to 9 orders of magnitude)
and a Faraday detector for large dynamic range (up to 12 orders
of magnitude).
§ The ICP-torch is controlled via software for X, Y and Z
directions.
§ The vacuum system must have a full automatic protection with
an isolating valve located between the ICP and the magnetic
sector mass spectrometer.
§ Resolution >10,000 for problematic isotopes is achievable and
controllable by software.
§ A continuously variable resolution capability from 300 to
greater than 10,000 that can be optimized for specific
applications where sensitivity does not have to be compromised
at the expense of over-resolution fixed-slit system.
§ To limit magnet "duty cycle" fast scan optics can allows up to
40% of mass range.
§ The "magnet scan" speed must be
