Opportunity: The USGS National Research Program-Eastern Branch

The USGS National Research Program-Eastern Branch in Reston, VA, needs to purchase one Total Organic Carbon Analyzer to replace an aging and increasingly unreliable instrument. This equipment is designed and configured for the analysis of total organic carbon in of wastewater, pharmaceutical water, ground water, drinking water, saline water, domestic and industrial wastewater. TOC-LCPH TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON ANALYZER Salient Characteristics: 1. Shall utilize the 680oC catalytic combustion method 2. Shall have a measurement range between 4 µg/L and 30,000 mg/L 3. Shall utilize non-dispersive infra-red (NDIR) detection 4. Shall have a detection limit of 4 µg/L 5. Shall be capable of oxidizing both low molecular and high molecular weight organic molecules to carbon dioxide 6. Shall be capable of measuring Total Carbon (TC), Inorganic Carbon (IC), Total Organic Carbon (TOC) and Non-Purgeable Organic Carbon (NPOC) 7. Shall have an automatic blank check function utilizing ultrapure water for quality control of blanks 8. Shall have the ability to perform automatic dilutions 9. Shall be capable of automatic sample acidification and sparging 10. Shall be capable of accepting new samples while running 11. Shall be equipped with a high salt combustion tube allowing the analysis of high-salinity samples 12. Shall be equipped with a halogen scrubber 13. Shall be equipped with a SO3 mist catcher with all necessary fittings 14. Shall be equipped for analysis of small sample volumes 15. Shall include a maintenance kit for analysis of high-salt samples 16. Shall include an autosampler equipped for 24 mL sample vials 17. Shall utilize TOC-Control L software for instrument control and data analysis a. Software shall support compliance with GLP and ISO17025 1 638-91112-42 1 TOC-LCPH (GSA ONLY) 2 638-93176-02 1 High Salt Combustion Tube TOC-LC*H 3 638-52572-03 1 B-Type Halogen Scrubber for TOC-LC 4 220-95365-00 1 SO3 Mist Catcher Kit w/ Connectors, Clamps & Tubing 5 638-59328-00 1 Small Sample Volume Kit for TOC-LC 6 220-95375-01 1 High Salts Maintenance Kit, With Combustion Tube 7 638-93199-58 1 ASI-L for 24 mL, ROHS-compliant 8 I&F 1 INSTALLATION AND CUSTOMER FAMILIARIZATION 9 1YW 1 1 YEAR WARRANTY TOC-LC Product # Qty Description 10 638-77183-00 1 External Sparge Kit without ASI-L All interested firms who can meet or exceed the Specifications listed above shall submit a response with their quote with detailed technical proposal on the equipment requested. Firms responding shall indicate whether their socioeconomic status (e.g. small business, service disabled veteran, woman/women owned, HUBZone, etc.). The Government¿s evaluation of the capabilities of respondents will factor into whether the forthcoming solicitation will be conducted using full and open competition or as a set-aside for small businesses or small business designation. This requirement is expected to result in the award of a firm-fixed price contract. All responses shall be sent to hnair@usgs.gov The anticipated NAICS code is 334516. The size standard is 1000 employees The anticipated award date of the contract is 08/05/2017. The anticipated contract will be firm fixed-price. A vendor must be registered at https://www.sam.gov/portal/public/SAM/ to be awarded the contract.