Announcement of an Exempt Purchase

These components will be integrated into custom designed and built scientific instruments at the ChemMatCARS Sector of the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory.

This purchase is exempt from the usual selection processes of the Procurement Code because the procurement expenditure is for performing sponsored research and other sponsored activities under grants and contracts funded by the sponsor or by sources other than State appropriations. (30 ILCS 500 / 1-13(b)(8)) This procurement provides detectors of synchrotron x-rays that are required to fulfill the scientific needs described in the National Science Foundation grant awarded to Mark Schlossman of the UIC Department of Physics. This grant funds new scientific instrumentation on the ChemMatCARS Sector at the Advanced Photon Source, including a new beamline for X-ray studies that will utilize the requested Dectris detector. Schlossman is a founding member of the leadership team of ChemMatCARS, which has provided scientific capabilities to UIC research programs since 2002. These capabilities require the installation of scientific instrumentation at the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory.