Analyzer

Trade Agreement: NAFTA / CFTA / FTAs with Peru / Colombia / Panama / Korea
Tendering Procedures: Generally only one firm has been invited to bid
Non-Competitive Procurement Strategy: Exclusive Rights
Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement: No
Vendor Name and Address: 
Dakunalytics, LLC
5638 NW Dumbeck
Albany Oregon
United States
97321
Nature of Requirements: 


For the provision of one (1) combined pCO2 / TCO2 ocean acidification analyzer, installation and training on behalf of Fisheries & Oceans Canada located in St. Andrews, NB.  Public Services and Procurement Canada intends to enter into a contract with Dakunalytics, LLC, Albany, OR.  

The mandatory delivery date is March 30, 2018.

The estimated value of the contract is $59,000.00 USD

Mandatory Requirements:

Combined pCO2 / TCO2 ocean acidification analyzer

- combined pCO2 / TCO2 analyzer to detect partial pressures (pCO2) and total concentrations(TCO2) of carbon dioxide within a seawater sample.
- calculates pH from the carbon dioxide measurements and a salinity-alkalinity relationship to provide highly accurate and reliable pH data from the carbon dioxide measurements and a salinity-alkalinity relationship to provide highly accurate and reliable pH data
- front-end software provides information on aragonite and calcite concentrations that are forms of calcium carbonate that shellfish (for example) use to build their shells. These compounds (and therefore the organisms) are vulnerable to ocean acidification
- able to provide us not only with accurate pH data to understand how ocean pH may be changing, but also how it may biologically affect organisms. Traditional pH meters do not provide the level of accuracy that we require for our studies.
- Continuous real-time monitoring information is published as open data per Government of Canada practices

The reason for single tendering is:   Government Contract Regulations, Section 6 (d) is being invoked in this procurement is the only one person capable of performing the contract.

Justification for pre-identified supplier
The proposed equipment is a requirement for monitoring pH levels of climate change biological experimentation (ocean acidification) in the St. Andrews Biological Station wet laboratories and from field sampling. This is a necessary equipment addition of the SABS Wet Lab and Science Building facilities built in 2010-2012. Current facilities only allow the manipulation of seawater parameters for biological climate change exposures - in order to assess the validity of those manipulations, we must have equipment that can do the analysis so that we can perform quality control and publish data. This equipment will also continuously monitor incoming seawater, which is data at a resolution that we do not currently have, which will be streamed through data portals in line with DFO’s Open Data Policy.

There is no other piece of equipment that is able to do real-time measurements and calculations of calcium carbonate saturations immediately (aragonite and calcite), which are highly important biological variables to monitor for biological effects of ocean acidification work that we are conducting in our lab. None of the equipment in our facilities is currently able to do this. We need this to be able to monitor both our incoming seawater and our experimental climate change stressor units, and to perform analysis of samples from the field also. No other piece of equipment is able to do both continuous measurement and also measurement of discrete (or non-continuous) samples.

Dakunalytics LLC is the sole vendor of the combined pCO2 / TCO2 analyzer for calculating pH.

Dakunalytics LLC are solely authorized to supply, install and train staff on this system. 

The combined pCO2 / TCO2 ocean acidification analyzer is only made and supplied by Dakunalytics LLC. There is no other supplier or equivalent of this product. This system is able to calculate pH and calcium carbonate variables in real-time in both a continuous and discrete operating mode
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This requirement is subject to the NAFTA/CFTA.  Limited Tendering Provisions is in accordance with the Trade Agreements, Articles 513 (b) (iii) of CFTA, Articles 1016.2 (b) of NAFTA, and Columbia/Peru Trade Agreements contain similar limited tendering provisions to those in the NAFTA.


Supplier: 

Dakunalytics
LLC 5638 NW Dumbeck
Albany, OR
97321, USA 
     
This PWGSC office provides procurement services to the public in both official languages of Canada.


Delivery Date: Above-mentioned

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