A pipetting robot

Nasjonalt Folkehelseinstitutt (FHI) (The Norwegian Institute of Public Health)

The objective of the procurement is to comply with the contracting authority's requirements for automatic fractioning of plasma, buffy coat and red blood cells. This shall be done by using a pipetting robot.
In order to provide services in bio banking, the contracting authority requires a reliable pipetting robot. The bio bank stores and processes an enormous number of samples of biological materials, of which each sample constitutes high value for existing and future research. The samples are considered irreplaceable for the contracting authority. In order to avoid unnecessary losses, contamination or other deterioration of the samples, the contracting authority is dependent on an instrument with high operational reliability, precision and with minimum chances of errors.
In order to attend to the requirement for processing a large amount of samples the contracting authority requires a robot with minimum four pipetting tubes and detection for fractions of plasma, buffy coat and red blood cells, either by using pipetting tubes or by using additional equipment. The relevant samples shall mainly be pipetted from vacutainer and vacuette tubes with various volume from three to ten ml, with and without gel. Other types of output tubes may also be relevant These tubes are marked with the contracting authority's 1D barcodes. The samples shall be pipetted further to matrix tubes with sizes of 500, 750 and 1,400ul, respectively. The relevant matrix tubes have 2D barcodes on the bottom.
The procurement also includes option for training of the contracting authority's employees, as well as options for service agreements after the guarantee period is expired.

Frist
Fristen for mottak av tilbud var 2015-09-01. Anskaffelsen ble publisert 2015-07-16.

Hvem?

• • Nasjonalt Folkehelseinstitutt (FHI) (The Norwegian Institute of Public Health)

Hva?

• • Laboratoriepipetter og tilbehør › Pipetter

Hvor?

• • Norge