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Create free accountTrade Agreement: WTO-AGP/NAFTA/AIT/Canada FTAs with Peru/Colombia/Panama Tendering Procedures: All interested suppliers may submit a bid Attachment: None Competitive Procurement Strategy: Best Overall Proposal Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement: No Nature of Requirements: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Spectrometer System
H4134-133091/A Alan Takasaki Supply Specialist Public Works and Government Services Canada Acquisitions Branch Vancouver, 2nd floor, 800 Burrard St Vancouver, BC V6Z 0B9 Telephone: (604)775-7605 Facsimile: (604)775-7526 E-mail address: al.takasaki@pwgsc.gc.ca
The PWGSC Vancouver office provides procurement services to the public in English.
This year, Vancouver Drug Analysis Service (DAS) laboratory is forecast to receive and analyze over 28,000 drug exhibits from seizures by police services, the RCMP and border services from Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia and the Territories. Of these, an estimated 350 samples will be further analyzed quantitatively, to precisely identify the percent composition of a commodity. This number is severely restricted because of current technical limitations; Vancouver DAS offers quantitation services for cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and MDMA only. Using existing methodology, the turnaround times for six samples of one drug type range between two to three days, and the analyses require certified standards, which are costly, time-consuming to obtain. Frequently the lab is requested to provide a purity determination on a new emerging drug which it cannot do with these limitations.
A Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectrometer is being sought to improve and expedite quantitation, among other important applications. Quantitative NMR (qNMR) is a robust method recognized for the certification of reference materials. Because NMR is insensitive to impurities, the ratios obtained are highly precise; there is no need for chemically identical standards, or calibration, or conditioning, and turnaround time can be less than two minutes per sample. This application of NMR is well established; the American Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has developed a turn-key, automated analysis system for its field labs to quantitate hundreds of commodities and have been using qNMR for almost two decades. The DEA Special Testing Laboratory has agreed to provide Vancouver DAS with a copy of the macroinstructions that they have developed in-house for the automated analysis of samples for quantitation and facilitate sharing of methods and conclusions from analyses of interest (ie. international trafficking investigations) as shipping forensic drug samples cross international borders is not practical, especially on a time sensitive scenario. These macros are written using the Agilent coding language MAGICAL II. Requirement: DAS of Health Canada require the supply, delivery installation and commissioning of ONE(1) only, 400 MHz Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Spectrometer that comprised of a superconducting magnet, magnet stand, high-sensitivity probe, a console, an autosampler and a fully customizable, automated acquisition and processing software that is compatible with the macros written by the DEA, or comes with equivalent macros that are ready to use and automated.
Sample Request Bidders interested in bidding should request the test sample for quantitation analysis as soon as possible so that the result can be included in the bidder's bid response. Due to international legislation, the test sample can only be mailed to a Canadian address. This sample will include a mixture of pseudoephedrine and caffeine; procurement of solvent and internal standard, D2O and maleic acid, required in the analysis will be the bidder's responsibility.
Bidders are to send an email to the al.takasaki@pwgsc.gc.ca and Elizabeth.perez@pwgsc.gc.ca . The subject Line should read "Test Sample Request - RFP H3134-133091/A". In your email, please provide the complete Canadian mailing address, name, telephone # and email address.
Delivery date for all hardware and software: On or before March 28, 2014 Completion date of all installation and commissioning: On or before April 30, 2014 Completion of all training: On or about May 15, 2014. Delivery Date: Above-mentioned
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