Announcement of an Exempt Purchase

Purchase of lab reagents and testing kits to be used with Roche Cobas 6800 laboratory analyzer. This analyzer performs detection and quantitation of BK virus, cytomegalovirus and Epstein-Barr virus in the plasma of infected transplant patients and for the detection and monitoring of human immunodeficiency, hepatitis C and hepatitis B viruses.

This purchase is exempt from the usual selection processes of the Procurement Code because the procurement expenditure is for medical supplies or medical at a university-operated health care center or dispensary that provides care, treatment, and medications for students, faculty and staff (30 ILCS 500 / 1-13(b-5)) Without these reagents and testing kits the UI Hospital will not be able to perform critical laboratory testing for transplant and other patients.