Description
The U.S. Army Contracting Command - Warren is seeking a contractor to develop a High-Throughput Biosensor Calibrator. The calibrator will be used to detect biological agents and will require the development of robust sensing chips and a miniaturized air sampler. The contractor will be responsible for designing, acquiring, implementing, testing, delivering, and supporting the integration of the biosensor calibrator. The contract will be a firm fixed price contract, and the period of performance will be 24 months. The contractor will be required to deliver a report with the protocol to fabricate and functionalize the robust sensing chips, an engineering manual with written operating procedures for the biosensor calibrator, and a calibration report for the system.
Some key features of the biosensor calibrator include:
* Robust sensing chips that are reusable and can be shipped at ambient temperature and stored for at least 3 months
* A miniaturized air sampler for the biosensor calibrator
* The ability to measure multiple samples one after another, unattended, for at least 6 samples
* The ability to run for at least three hours unattended
* The ability to analyze the obtained data using two methods: a quick alarm signal with shorter time and less quantitative accuracy, and a more accurate and quantitative analysis with saturated response under longer reaction time.