In accordance with FAR Part 13 and FAR Part 12, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Vehicle and Fuel Emissions Laboratory located in Ann Arbor, Michigan is seeking to procure a Magnetic Sector Mass Spectrometer and its accompanying data system. The magnetic sector mass spectrometer shall include the following major items: (1) a High Resolution, 2-sector, double focusing magnetic mass spectrometer; (2) a high capacity turbo molecular pumping for high vacuum capability; (3) a heated sample reference inlet reservoir; (4) a Gas Chromatograph including a Split/Splitless capillary injector, a Programmable Cool-On-Column capillary injector, and a Liquid Autosampler; and (5) ion sources and interfaces, meeting the following minimum performance requirements (a through h): (a) A capillary GC-MS interface, all glass, with variable temperature of 50 C to 380 C; (b) The standard sample inlet, with variable temperature of 50 C to 170 C; (c) An EI/CI combination source, with variable temperature of 230 C to 350 C, and a spare EI/CI ion source and lens; (d)A Desorption Chemical Ionization probe with a current ramp range of at least 0 to 1.5A, and a variable ramp rate of at least 4A / min; (e)A Direct Insertion Probe that is water cooled and heated, with a ramp temperature range of 50 C to 500 C, and a variable ramp rate of at least 256 C/min; (f) Field Desorption/Field Ionization probes with a counter electrode having variable voltage at least equal to 0 to -5kV, and a variable emitter current at least equal to 0 to 100mA; (g) A Fast Atom Bombardment source and sampling probe with a range at least equal to 1 to 6 kev; and (h)a tunable source providing highly selective ionizing potential from zero to 70eV, with a bandwidth of 0.4eV energy resolution, such that individual series of compounds may be ionized and analyzed to the exclusion of others. The Basic Unit shall meet the following minimum performance standards: (1) Basic Unit shall have a Resolution 60,000 with 10% valley in the EI mode at m/z 84, a range 2,400amu @ 10kV accelerating potential ( 24,000 @ 1kV), a field configuration = BE, and an ion current 4E-7 coulombs/uG @ R=1000, Va=10kV, on methyl stearate M+, in the EI mode; (2) slits on the basic units are to be continuously adjustable under computer control and the magnet is to have 0.1 sec./decade scan time; (3) the high vacuum system shall achieve an ultimate vacuum 3E-7 Torr; (4) Ion Monitoring is to be accomplished with at least an accelerating voltage switching of 0.05 sec./channel, and a magnetic field switching of 0.1 sec./channel; (5) The detection system must be capable of both positive and negative ion detection from 0 to ? 10kV, with an electron multiplier that is continuously variable from -1 to -4 kV; (6) The spectrometer shall have a linked scan and neutral loss scan unit, and include a collision cell in the second field-free region; and (7) all support equipment must be included such as an air compressor that operates in the range 350 - 470 kPa, a closed cycle water chiller, and all manuals and circuit diagrams. The magnetic sector mass spectrometer data system shall include a data system processor, 19 inch flat screen color monitor, optical keyboard and mouse, and a laser color printer. The data system processor shall meet the following requirements, at a minimum: (1) a 16-bit CPU that runs at 500 MHz; (2) Include an acquisition processing unit; (3) buffer memory of 1 MB or more; (4) Direct Memory Access from the Acquisition Processing Unit to the CPU; (5) a 16-bit) Analog-to-Digital-Converter with autogain; (6) 4 GB or more of Random Access Memory and (7) two free slots. It shall also include the following disk drives: a 40 GB (or greater) hard drive; a 5.2 GB optical drive for data archive; a 1.44 MB floppy drive; a DVD read and write optical drive for data archive; and a CD-RW drive. The magnetic mass spectrometer data system shall include a full software suite for instrument control and data acquisition and management including the following programs/capabilities: operating system; peak monitoring; tuning; a system monitor; a low and high resolution program for control and acquisition; a low and high resolution program for data processing; elemental composition calculation; theoretical ion distribution calculation; continuous data accumulation program; mass peak accumulation measurement; mass peak accumulation data processing; linked scanning; Selected Ion Monitoring measurement; Selected Ion Monitoring data processing; data quantitation; library searching; and both the NIST/EPA/MSDC Mass Spectral Database and the Wiley Registry of Mass Spectral Database. An option for an Extended Service Contract, renewable every year for a period of 3 years from the date of acceptance shall be provided with the equipment. This procurement will be made using "Best Value" procedures and Full and Open Competition for everything in the SOW including options. The solicitation should be issued by May 3, 2004 on the website listed below. A "DRAFT" of the proposed Statement of Work for this requirement can be found at http://www.epa.gov/oam/cinn_cmd. Interested parties are requested to review the "DRAFT" SOW and provide any comments by April23, 2004 via fax to Tammy Adams or David Plagge (513) 487-2107 or email at
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[email protected]. All responsible sources may submit a proposal which shall be considered by the Agency. See Note 12.