Trade Agreement: NAFTA / CFTA / FTAs with Peru / Colombia / Panama / Korea
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:
Agilent Technologies Canada Inc.
6705 Millcreek
Unit 5
Mississauga Ontario
Canada
L5N5M4
Nature of Requirements:
Tape Station System
01R11-200645/A
Ray, Jane
Telephone No. - (403) 472-1742
Fax No. - (403) 292-5786
ACAN -TAPESTATION SYSTEM 01R11-200645
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. Requirement
Public Works and Government Services Canada (PWGSC) on behalf of its client, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, intends to enter into a Contract with Agilent Technologies Canada Inc. for one (1) Agilent Technologies 4150 TapeStation System destined for one of its laboratories in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. This is intended as a replacement machine for the current piece of equipment which is an Agilent Bio-analyzer. The Agilent Technologies Tapestation 4150 will replace the Agilent Bio-analyzer but still provide data consistent with that generated on the previous system. With the increased sensitivity of the Agilent Technologies 4150 TapeStation, it will allow for a wider range of genomic DNA samples as well as a constant price per sample with no minimum number of samples required.
3. Criteria for assessment of the Statement of Capabilities
Suppliers who consider themselves fully qualified and available to provide the goods in this 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.
MANDATORY TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
1. Requirement: Capillary Electrophoresis System
1.1 The equipment offered shall be "off-the-shelf" in that it shall be composed of standard equipment requiring no further research or development and shall be in current production and conform to the current issue of the applicable specification and/or part number of the Original Equipment Manufacturer. All equipment shall be new, in that it shall not include refurbished equipment/parts and in that all equipment shall be of current manufacture.
1.2 Instrument must be able to analyse both DNA and RNA Samples.
1.3 Instrument must be able to measure DNA fragments up to 60,000 base pairs.
1.4 Instrument must be able to process samples individually as well as in groups of up to 16 samples.
1.5 Instrument must generate data that is in the same format and directly comparable with data generated on a Bio-analyzer 2100 platform.
1.6 The maximum dimensions of the instrument should be 26cm x 52cm x 42cm (w x d x h).
1.7 The electrophoresis speed per sample should be
