Tender Notice No:   PROJ/SSPAG/DST/SR/S2/CMP-0093/2010/2011-12/01                             Date:   10.01.2012

Sealed tender in two bids system (Technical Bid & Price bid) is invited from bonafide, resourceful and eligible manufacturer/exclusive distributor/vendors for electrochemical impedance analyzer with the following specifications & Accessories. Part – I (Technical Bid) of the tender should contain technical details and commercial terms and conditions and Part – II (Price Bid) should indicate group-wise price as mentioned in the Technical Bid. The Technical Bid and Price Bid are to be submitted in two separately sealed envelopes distinctly marked accordingly and both to be put inside another envelope, which should be sealed and superscribed with tender reference no. and due date. Complete tender bids should reach the office of the Registrar, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Jadavpur, Kolkata – 700032 on or before the scheduled date & time specified below. The bidders may submit bids duly signed in their own letterheads. 

The technical bids will be opened first to evaluate technical specifications of the equipment and there after the price bids of only the technically qualified distributor/vendors will be opened  

Last date for submission of the tender: January 30, 2012 up to 2.00 PM in the office of the Registrar, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Jadavpur, Kolkata -700032 

Opening of Technical Bids: Technical Bids will be opened on January 30, 2012 at 3.30 PM in the presence of intending bidders or their representatives. 

Opening of price-bid: The Price Bids of the bidders qualifying the technical bid will only be opened, the date of which will be intimated to the short-listed bidders at their email addresses. The rest of the bids will be rejected.

Please note that IACS will not provide any accommodation or expenses to any of the bidders for attending opening of technical bid/price bid. 

A). TECHNICAL BID:

Technical Bid should contain technical details and commercial terms and conditions and kept in a separate envelope duly superscribed as “Technical Bid” on the outer cover of the envelope.

Detailed Technical Specifications of " electrochemical impedance analyzer." 

Application:

The primary application would be electrical and electrochemical study of lithium or silver ion batteries.

System:

The system should be with the following components:

1. Electrochemical workstation Potentiostat/Galvanostat/FRA with inbuilt data acquisition system.

2. No. Of Channels required: 5 (Note: All the channels should be independent)

3. Possible of connecting the channels with different PC/LAPTOP through LAN, so that 5 users can access the equipment simultaneously.

4. Compliance Voltage: ±20V

5. Applied Voltage Range: ±10V

6. Current range

(i) Channel 1 to 4: ±10µA- ±400mA

(ii) Channel 5: ±10µA- ±5A

7. Potentiostat rise time: < 2μs

8. Scan Rate: 200V/s max

9. Acquisition time: 20µS

10. Frequency range: 10µ Hz- 1MHz (All the channels should have 1 MHZ Frequency range)

11. Potentiostat Bandwidth: 1MHz

12. Input Bias current :< 5pA

13. Acquisition speed: 200,000 samples/sec.

14. Voltage resolution: 5µV

15. Current Resolution: 760pA

16. Interface: Ethernet

17. Software techniques required.

A comprehensive software package should consist of the following techniques.

(i) Corrosion which includes noise, LPR, Tafel etc.

(ii) General Voltammetry software

(iii) Amperometry and Pulse software

(iv) Battery and fuel cell testing software

(v) Electrochemical Impedance spectroscopy software

(vi) Photovoltaic testing software.

(vii) Analysis tool for Battery, fuel cell, corrosion and Voltammetry applications.

18. Data Acquisition system.

A latest version of Lap top Dell or equivalent make with laser jet printer should be supplied along with the instrument for operation.

19. Accessories Required.

(i) Battery Holder (Coin cell holder)- 4 nos.

(ii)Voltammetry cell with Platinum counter electrode-1 no.

(iii) Platinum working electrode-1 no.

(iv) Gold working electrode-1 no.

(v) Bulk electrolysis cell with Porous carbon electrode, Platinum counter electrode 23 cm, teflon cap and gas purging tube- 1 no.

B). Price BID:

Price Bid should indicate group-wise price as mentioned in the Technical Bid and kept in a separate envelope duly superscribed as “Price Bid” on the outer cover of the envelope. 

C) GENERAL INSTURCTIONS:

1. Incomplete & conditional tenders and tenders received after the due date will be summarily rejected without assigning any reasons thereof.

2. At any time prior to the bid due date, IACS may, for any reason, whether at its own initiative or in response to a clarification requested by a prospective bidder during pre-bid meeting, modify the bidding documents.  The amendment(s) will be notified on the Institute website.  Prospective bidders are advised to occasionally visit the website for any amendment.

3. Payment: 100% against delivery and successful installation.

4. Warranty: Minimum 2 years Warranty for Parts & Labor should be available.

5. Installation/Demonstration/Application Training at site: Free of cost by the supplier.

6. Service facility: Supplier should mention their details of service setup and Manpower in Kolkata who are responsible for after sales support. Response time should be within 24 hours.

7. Validity of tender: Tender submitted shall remain valid at least for four months from the date of opening the tender. Validity beyond four months from the date of opening of the tender shall be by mutual consent.

8. The tender should accompany a compliance chart.

9. The rate should be inclusive of all taxes, transportation etc. Nothing extra will be paid in addition to the quoted rate.

10. The model number, make, and a printed literature of the product shall submit positively.

11. Proposed delivery schedule should be mentioned clearly.

12. Manufacturers/exclusive distributors/vendors should have history of supplying this type of instrument to this or other Scientific Organizations.

13. Authorized Dealership Certificate is must in case of principal manufacturing company is not quoting directly.

14. Guarantee certificate, users manuals etc. are to be handed over to the user after successful commissioning of the system.

15. In the event of date being declared a closed holiday for purchaser’s office, the due date for submission of bids and opening of technical bids will be the following working day at the appointed time.

16. For any clarification regarding technical specifications, etc. please send your queries to Prof. A. Ghosh (sspag@iacs.res.in)

17. The Institute reserves the right to reject any or all of the tenders received without assigning any reason thereof.

Registrar