SOLICITATION NOTICE
68 -- Preparation Testing Kits
- Notice Date
- 6/4/2003
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- Contracting Office
- Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, South Atlantic Area Office/Athens, GA, 950 College Station Rd., Athens, GA, 30605
- ZIP Code
- 30605
- Solicitation Number
- RFQ-021-4383-03
- Response Due
- 6/10/2003
- Archive Date
- 6/14/2003
- Point of Contact
- Elaine Wood, Contract Specialist, Phone 706-546-3534, Fax 706-546-3444,
- E-Mail Address
-
woode@saa.ars.usda.gov
- Description
- The United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, South Atlantic Area intends to solicit and negotiate with only one source, Qiagen, Inc, for Quantitec SYBR Green RT-PCR and QIAprep 96 Turbo Core Kits. The Quantitec SYBR Green RT-PCR solution must contain all components needed for PCR applications using SYBR Green dye. It must detect double-stranded DNA and include Passive Reference I which is required for signal normalization in all SYBR Green dye reactions. The QIAprep 96 Turbo Core Kits are small-scale plasmid preparation kits which must be able to purify up to 20 ug of plasmid DNA from 96 samples of up to 5 milliliters of overnight bacterial culture in approximately 1 hour on a Qiagen Biorobot 9600. The minimum recovery of plasmid must be 70% with an average recovery of >85%. Preparations initiated with an alkaline lysis must have a highly efficient filtration step to remove all visible precipitates without clogging, and a uniform membrane-based binding media for purificaiton. The purified plasmid must be in a buffer suitable for direct use in a dye terminator or dye-primer sequencing reaction. Delivery is required with 14 days. FOB Destination to Ft. Pierce, FL. No telephone inquiries will be accepted. Interested parties should submit written responses including prices and technical data identifying where the offered item meets or does not meet each of the Government?s functional and performance minimum specifications listed herein to this office within 7 calendar days after publication of this notice. It should be noted that no contract will be awarded on the basis of offers received in response to this notice, but will be used to determine if a comparable source more advantageous to the Government is available. If no affirmative written responses are received, negotiations will be held with Qiagen, Inc. without further notice. This acquisition is being conducted under the Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act, Simplified Acquisition Procedures. The anticipated award date is June 10, 2003.
- Record
- SN00339356-W 20030606/030604213224 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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