Specifications include, but are not limited to: The Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI) Crime Laboratory located at 2240 S. Ankeny Blvd., Ankeny, IA 50023 is accepting bids to provide calibration and preventative maintenance services on the pipettes used by the forensic laboratory. The laboratory is seeking a vendor who is ISO/IEC 17025 accredited and can provide on‐site pipette services to an ANAB accredited crime laboratory with both As‐Found and As‐Left data. The Iowa DCI Crime Lab currently has approximately 200 pipettes, with most of those being single channel manual pipettes. However, the laboratory does have several electronic single and multichannel pipettes as well. Approximately 180 of the total laboratory pipettes that require calibration and preventative maintenance (PM’s) are assigned to the DNA section of the laboratory. Approximately 20 of the total laboratory pipettes that require calibration and PM’s are assigned to the Toxicology/Drug pipettes. These total numbers are subject to change.
