Notice is hereby given by the University of Ottawa of the intent to enter into a contract with Lafayette Instrument to purchase Bussey Touch Screen Systems, including accompanying software, for the purpose of measuring the behavioural activities of both mice and rats in a variety of cognitive experiments.
The equipment will be housed in the Univerisity’s Behaviour Core Facility, which provides high quality animal testing facilities complete with state of the art equipment and software. The intended use of the Bussey Touch Screen System is to measure aspects of cognitive behaviour that the Behaviour Core currently does not have the ability to measure.
The touch screen system provides a streamlined and validated assay to evaluate the cognitive behaviour characteristics of rodent preclinical models and test manipulations of these models.
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.
