Automatic Robotic Machines

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Animal Plant Health Inspection Services (APHIS) is seeking a firm-fixed price contract for Tecan Robotic Machines to support diagnostic testing and outbreak surge capacity at the Foreign Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory (FADDL). The contract requires the delivery and installation of five robotic machines with specific technical requirements. The contractor must provide all necessary equipment for unloading, transporting, and installing the equipment, and demonstrate that the equipment functions according to the manufacturer's specifications. Key features of the required machines include: * Capable of processing 96 samples at one time * Require tube sizes of 2ml, 5ml, and 12ml cryovials and 8.5ml serum separator tubes * 8 channel pipette arm (Span-8 equivalent) * Plate/tube manipulation arm * Scanning the barcodes for each of the 96 tubes (2D scanning) * Decapping the tubes * Pipetting a volume of 50-1000uL of fluid from the tubes to a standard PCR plate or deep well plate * Recapping the tubes * Sealing 96-well or deep well plate * Minimum of three 320ml reagent reservoirs on worktable * Heating/Cold block functions on one site for a 96-well plate * Thermoshake capability * All operations must be provided in a fully enclosed, HEPA filtered cabinet (Negative Flow) * Weight less than 200lbs * Power Requirements: 120V/50-60 Hz * Must be smaller than 46 inches width or depth * Machine must be situated on an included cabinet (not benchtop) * Software includes a graphical interface and drag and drop script development * Software must encode scripts that can be moved between identical machines without rescripting