Pyrolyzer GC-MS/FID

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: K'(Prime) Technologies Inc. Unit 105 90 Freeport Blvd. NE. Calgary Alberta Canada T3J5J9 Nature of Requirements: Pyrolyzer GC-MS/FID

1. Purpose of an Advance Contract Notice (ACAN)

An Advance Contract Award Notice (ACAN) allows department 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 goods, service or construction contract to a pre-identified supplier. 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 officer will proceed to a full tendering process.

2. Definition of requirements and sole source justification

The Geological Survey of Canada Calgary requires an integrated Pyrolyzer-GC-MS/FID facility to carry out the analysis of hydrocarbons hosted in shales and other rock samples under the GEM and GNES programs. It gives the GSC-C the ability to characterize shale petroleum reservoirs by thermally desorbing volatile and semi-volatile hydrocarbons or decomposing kerogen in rock samples loaded in the pyrolyzer, and directly transferring the liberated hydrocarbons from the pyrolyzer into the GC-MS/FID system to identify and quantify those petroleum components as well as the effects of kerogen and bitumen pore-fillings on reservoir performance.

Key analysis of shale samples would be light to medium hydrocarbons in the range of C5 to C20.

The entire system must be provided by single vendor on a single proposal and must meet the minimum requirements outlined below:

Pyrolyzer Mandatory Specifications

The following are the minimum specifications for a Pyrolyzer and its accessories:

1) The pyrolyzer must consist of a ceramic micro furnace design with a temperature reproducibility of +/- 0.1 C and able to be operated in a temperature-programmable mode in the range 30C (ambient + 1C) to 850C, so that it can be utilized for both programmed and flash mode thermal desorption (TD) and/or pyrolysis (Py) as well. As such, filament or Curie Point type of pyrolyzers are not acceptable for our applications.

2) The pyrolyzer must be able to be mounted directly into the GC inlet system with no external transfer lines and with an interface that is settable from 40C to 350C, in order to minimize cold-spot/zone effect on the GC analysis of the thermally desorbed or pyrolyzed material. The GC-MS/FID system to be interfaced with the pyrolyzer will identify and quantify the liberated components from the pyrolyzer.

3) With a short deactivated analytical column installed in the GC-MSDIFID system, the pyrolyzer must be able to be operated to perform evolved gas analysis (EGA) on geological samples so thermally desorbed and pyrolyzed organic components can be analyzed and quantified quickly.

4) The pyrolyzer must have the capability of performing multiple-step thermal analysis on the same sample and preserving the sample at ambient temperature after each step or temperature-point of thermal treatment.

5) The pyrolyzer should be equipped with an AutoShot sampler to automate the multistep thermal analysis without human intervention as well as to enable the pyrolyzer to analyze multiple samples automatically so the analysis can be carried out to the maximum efficiency.

6) The pyrolyzer must be equipped with an On-line micro-reaction sampler. With this device, a source rock or isolated organic fossil sample loaded in a micro-scale-sealedvessel (MSSV) can be pyrolyzed in the pyrolyzer furnace itself or in a standalone oven at specified temperatures for certain duration and then are subjected to thermal desorption on the pyrolyzer followed by GC-MSD/FID analysis. This type of MSSV-TD-GC-MS/FID analysis can generate data on various hydrocarbon components as kinetic inputs for basin modeling and hydrocarbon resource assessment.

7) A MicroJet Cryo-trap must also be supplied with the pyrolyzer to be installed in the GC oven so the thermally liberated hydrocarbon components can be focused as a narrow band in the pre-column for pulse-launch into the analytical capillary column so that maximum peak resolution can be achieved for the GC analysis.

8) A Selective Sampler must be included for the pyrolyzer to enable the capture of hydrocarbon components liberated at any selected temperature ranges and its transfer to the GC-MS/FID system for further analysis.

9) The pyrolyzer software must be capable of controlling all set points of the pyrolyzer and the auto-shot sampler; must have a graphical display that dynamically indicates where the sample cup is during a sequence and display actual and set point temperatures during a run; must be compatible with the GC-MS/FID software systems; and must also be capable of controlling the following modes of operation: Evolved Gas Analysis (EGA) Multiple-point Thermal Desorption (TD) Multiple-point Pyrolysis (PY) Reactive Pyrolysis (RxPY) Heart-cuts based on the EGA thermo grams Sorbent-based thermal desorption High pressure-high temperature reaction chemistry

Gas Chromatography-Mass SpectrometrylFlame Ionization Detection (GC-MS/FID) System Specifications:

1) The GC-MS/FID system must be compatible with the pyrolyzer system, both hardware and software.

2) Gas chromatograph must have an oven operating range from ambient temperature +4C to 450C

3) The GC must be fitted with a split/splitless injector so the amount of sample loaded into the capillary column can be fine-tuned.

4) The GC must have electronic pressure control and be able to control inlet and detector gases to the nearest 0.001 psi.

5) The GC must have clock time programmability to allow a user to have the instrument come on at a specified time, and be at operating temperature and stable when use is required.

6) A CTC GC-PAL liquid injector and all associated software and hardware must also be supplied.

7) In addition to the Mass Spectrometer (MS), the GC must be fitted with an FID detector (optimised for capillary columns) and allow for the addition of 1 additional GC detector such as a TCD, ECD, NPD, FPD or DFPD, so that both identification using MS and accurate quantification using FID can be achieved.

8) For safety reasons, the GC must have an automatic shut-down for hydrogen carrier gas when a pressure or flow measurement indicates the possibility of a leak. It must have an oven explosion protection built into the oven door.

9) The GC must have available a Gas Phase microfluidics capability to provide automated Dean's Switching, effluent splitting between the mass spectrometer and another detector or the ability to change the column without venting the mass spectrometer. The fitting should be leak-tight material and design.

10) The MS system must be a bench-top turbo single quadruple mass spectrometer with an EI source capable of being operated in both full scan and selective ion monitoring (SIM) modes and be able to scan from 1.6 to 1050 u. It must be capable of automatic SIM/Scan method setup.

11) The Mass Spectrometer shall have an electronic scan rate of 12,500 u/sec and at the increments of 0.1 u for better mass resolution.

12) The MS must have a mode of operation that enables collection of both SIM data and full scan data in the same acquisition cycle.

13) The mass spectrometer must utilize a Quadrupole Mass Filter consisting of a monolithic quartz structure and be able to be independently heated from 100-200 C

14) The mass spectrometer must use an ion source in which the metallic parts are constructed from an inert material and which can be programmed up to 350C.

15) The GC-MS/FID system must be supplied with a software that must include a complete data processing package capable of: Automated peak location based on expected peak width and a signal-to-noise threshold. Automated peak area calculations based on automated combination of modulated peak slices. Analyte calibration software that can generate single and multi-order calibration curves. Automated analyte quantification. The ability to construct reference tables of known sample types. The ability to automatically compare samples to the reference tables to quickly produce filtered lists of differences between the samples as well as similarities. Automated data export in a variety of electronic formats including ANDII and ASCII formats.

9) The GC-MS/FID system must to be the same as or a higher model than one of the GC-MS systems already installed at the GSC-Calgary so the results generated on the new system can be compared with those from at least one of the current ones. In addition, this will enable the new GC-MS/FID system to be able to be used as a backup for one of the current GC-MS instruments to generate similar accessible and comparable analytical results.

Miscellaneous

all cables, tubing, power cords and fittings required for installation and operation must be included along with complete operation and maintenance manuals. specify site requirements. the system must have at least a one year warranty beginning on the date of acceptance of the system by the site authority. all prices must include delivery to, and installation in the Geological Survey of Canada laboratory in Calgary and also the cost of on-site training in set-up, maintenance and operation of the system at the time of installation. all equipment must be CSA approved

EGA/PY 3030D pyrolyzer, manufactured by Frontier Lab of Japan and supplied through its sales representative in Western Canada of K'Prime Technologies Inc is the only pyrolyzer in the market that can perform all the following analysis:

A) Both programed and flash-point thermal desorption and pyrolysis as well on solid materials including source rock and reservoir rock samples; B) Multiple step of thermal analysis on a sample while having the sample preserved at ambient condition between thermal treatments; C) Qualitative and quantitative multiple heartcut analysis of any temeprature range of the EGA (evolved gas analysis) peaks by coupling to a GC-MS/FID system with the assistance of a selective sampler and micro-jet cryo trap installed with the GC; D) MSSV-TD-GC-MS/FID analysis on source rock and isolated kerogens or other organic fossils; E) All the thermal analysis being able to be automated with the assistance of a auto-sampler and Software.

The EGA/PY 3030D pyrolyzer has to be interfaced to a GC-MS/FID analytical instrument so the thermally desorbed and/or pyrolyzed/decomposed hydrocarbons can be analyzed for their molecular composition and quantity. The selection of the GC-MSD/FID system is based on the requirement by the EGA/PY 3030D pyrolyzer and the compatibility of the GC-MSD/FID system with other GC-MS systems already installed at the GSC-Calgary in terms of hardware, software and result comparability. To the best of our knowledge, the Agilent 7890A-5975C GC-MSD/FID single quadruple mass spectrometer is the only GC-MS system meeting all the specifications and can produce similar data formats to those that already exist at GSC-C. In addition, K'Prime Technologies Inc is also the sales and technical services representative for Agilent Technologies' GC-MSD/ FID system in Western Canada, and thus can supply the complete Pyrolyzer-GC-MS/FID and Autosampler.

Delivery must be no later than March 31, 2013. Earlier is better.

3. Trade Agreements

Article 1016, Section 2, (b) of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and Article XV, Section 1 (b) of the World Trade Organization Agreement of Government Procurement (WTO-AGP) "...where, for works of art, or for reasons connected with the protection of patents, copyrights or other exclusive rights, or proprietary information or where there is an absence of competition for technical reasons, the goods or services can be supplied only by a particular supplier and no reasonable alternative or substitute exists;"

Article 506, Section 12 (b) of the Agreement on Internal Trade (AIT) "...where there is an absence of competition for technical reasons and the goods or services can be supplied only by a particular supplier and no alternative or substitute exists;"

4. Government Contracts Regulations Exception This contract is subject to subsection 6 (d) of the Government Contracts Regulations, in that only one person or company is capable of performing the contract.

5. Total Estimated Value CAD $235,184.48

6. Proposed Contractor K'Prime Technologies Inc. Unit 105, 90 Freeport Blvd. NE, Calgary, AB, T3J 5J9

7. Departmental Contact Person

Suppliers may address inquiries or submit their statement of capabilities to:

Name: Ian Taylor Position: Supply Specialist Tel: (780) 497-3621 Fax: (780) 497-3510 E-mail: Ian.Taylor@pwgsc.gc.ca

8. Submission of Statement of Capabilities by Suppliers

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.

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.