SOLICITATION NOTICE
66 -- GeneAtlas
- Notice Date
- 3/5/2014
- Notice Type
- Justification and Approval (J&A)
- NAICS
- 334516
— Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Agricultural Research Service - Northern Plains Area
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Archive Date
- 4/4/2014
- Point of Contact
- Donita J. Furman, Phone: 402-762-4145
- E-Mail Address
-
donita.furman@ars.usda.gov
(donita.furman@ars.usda.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Award Number
- AG-6538-P-14-0062
- Award Date
- 3/5/2014
- Description
- The USDA, ARS, US Meat Animal Research Center awarded a firm fixed price contract to to the Affymetrix Inc. This contract is for the purchase of a Affymetrix GeneAtlas personal microarray instrument that allows researchers to process Affymetrix Arrays, apply statistical models, and build and analyze biological pathways. Affymetrix is the only company that offers a small, personal laboratory microarray system. The system has a unique imaging station with a CCD camera with 10X objective for image collection and LED fluorophore excitation, LED 505nm light source with bulb life of 100,000 hours, 1um resolutions, and imaging time for a single 5um feature size array is 7.5 minutes. Affymetrix offers a bovine array strip for the GeneAtlas with whole-transcriptome analysis 9-11 probes/transcript that are not biased toward the 3'end. The array strips do not use gaskets to separate samples and the strips offer high inter-and intra-array strip signal correlation (R>0.99). The system and array strips offer easy to use parallel sample processing. This sole source contract is awarded under the authority of FAR part 6.302-1 Only One Responsible Source. This is not a request for quotes, and no formal solicitation was issued. This notice is for informational purposes only.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: State Spur 18D Bldg 1, Clay Center, Nebraska, 68933, United States
- Zip Code: 68933
- Zip Code: 68933
- Record
- SN03302460-W 20140307/140305234413-b71bfcfa3bf656eb9747b39a9329cde8 (fbodaily.com)
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