University of Illinois at Chicago
Announcement of a Sole Source Purchase
Vendor: Agilent
Change Order Amount: $136,960.95
There was an inadvertent mistake made in the purchasing amount of the one-time purchase when UIC submitted the sole source request. The sole source original amount should have been $249,960.95.
The State Purchasing Officer for this procurement is now Margaret van Dijk.
The University award process may be delayed up to thirty days as this award goes through a state approval process.
Awarded to:Vendor: Agilent, Santa Clara, CA
Amount: An estimated $113,000
Terms: One-time transaction
The University award process may be delayed up to thirty days as this award goes through a state approval process.
The hearing has been cancelled since no vendors registered to attend or submitted comments regarding this notice.
The State Purchasing Officer for this procurement is now Margaret van Dijk.
First published Monday, June 5, 2017
The University awarded a contract for Accurae-Mass Q-TOF LC/MS spectrometer system to Agilent, Santa Clara, CA, for an estimated $113,000.
Since 2016, there have been an dramatically increasing needs in lipidomics and metabolomics from UIC research groups and other institutes in Chicago land. Unfortunately, as one of the largest facility cores in the nation, Research Resource Center (RRC) does not have a high resolution/accuracy mass spectrometer to meet the needs from the community. Currently, RRC have 4 triple quadrupole (QqQ MS) Mass Spectrometry (MS) for targeted analysis, one Orbitrap dedicated for proteomics, one gas chromatography (GC) MS and IT TOF MS for small molecule measurement and one MALDI TOF/TOF for protein analysis. None of the instruments is suitable/available for lipidomics/metabolomics. QQQ is a low resolution instrument designed for targeted analysis such as Multiple Reaction Monitoring (MRM) or Selected reaction monitoring (SRM). GC MS is a magnetic MS with high accuracy but its can not process complex samples of lipids or metabolites. Ion-Trap and Time-of-Flight (IT TOF) is a high resolution/accuracy MS but the scan rate is too slow to analyze complex samples. Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI) TOF/TOF is not suitable for its incapability coupled to on-line liquid chromatography (LC) separation system. Orbitrap is the only instrument capable of analyzing complex samples of lipids and metabolites. However, this instrument is working at its full capability and is dedicated for proteomics samples ONLY, to avoid severe contaminations from lipid and metabolite samples.
Due to the instrument inadequation in RRC, most of our current clients are sending their samples of lipidomics/metabolomics to competitors causing the university to lose out on potential revenue for recharges.
The University has determined that this purchase is only economically available from this source because the items are required for research and no other source is able to meet the researcher's documented needs.
For additional information, contact:
State Purchasing Officer - Shirley Webb
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qualified veterans, minorities, females, persons with disabilities and ex-offenders.
