Iowa State University of Science and Technology (ISU) is requesting bids to provide and install a FTIR Microscope for the Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology Department per the specifications. This FTIR microscope will be used by faculty and students across the department exclusively for analyzing environmental samples of microplastics (extracted from water, sediments, or a wide range of organisms including fish). This system must be capable of an autonomous rapid quantitative analysis of microplastics. Extracted microplastics will be filtered on an aluminum oxide filter and microscope needs to make the readings directly from the filter, implying that the microscope must allow for the filter sample to be loaded manually. The aluminum filter samples may contain hundreds of microplastics and the system has to be capable to automatically analyze them all within minutes (or at most hours) and provide the results in the form of both size and polymer type for each particle without the need of the operator to be present. Prior to award of any contract, ISU reserves the right to request demonstration of the system(s) and/or sample runs in order to verify the proposed system will be acceptable to the University. Contractors should read all materials carefully and note the due dates. Contractors must direct all questions and comments in reference to this RFP/RFQ under the "Questions" tab.
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