Notice is hereby given by the University of Ottawa of the intent to enter into a contract with Eppendorf Canada Ltd. to purchase a Parallel Bioreactor System for Gut Microbiology, composed of one larger stirred‐tank fermentation system (hereafter “Seed Vessel”) that continuously and automatically feeds into a smaller parallel fermentation system (hereafter “PFS”) composed of four (4) stirred‐tank autoclavable vessels that maintain four (4) individual cultures under different control conditions.
The equipment will be part of the University’s School of Nutrition Sciences’ new Nutrition and Gut Health (NuGUT) Research Platform facility, complete with state of the art equipment and software for researching the effects of dietary components on modulation of the gut microbiota and its impact on human health and disease.
Suppliers who consider their equipment functional, successfully tested, readily available and fully compliant may submit in writing a statement of specifications to the contact person identified in this Notice, on or before the closing date of this Notice. In the statement of specifications, the supplier must unequivocally demonstrate how their equipment, at minimum, equals, or exceeds the stated requirements.
If no other supplier submits a statement of specifications, on or before the closing date of this Notice, the competitive requirements of the University Of Ottawa will be considered having been met.
Following notification to any suppliers not successful in unequivocally demonstrating that their statement of specifications equals or exceeds the requirements set out in this Notice, the contract may then be awarded to the pre‐identified supplier.
