Specifications include, but are not limited to: The Rhode Island Department of Corrections expects to enter into a five (5) year contract with a vendor to provide a complete testing system for drugs of abuse capable of supporting a program of up to 10,000 to 20,000 urine specimens per year. This is to include one (1) new drugs of abuse analyzer capable of testing for up to ten drugs of abuse per specimen. The selected vendor will provide and install all equipment, provide reagents, assays, calibrators and controls and control materials related to the operating the analyzer on a daily basis. The selected vendor will also be responsible for providing training to staff responsible for the operation and maintenance of the drug testing analyzer. REQUIREMENTS: ANALYZER: • 1 (one) new Automated Drug Abuse Analyzer with reagents, assays, calibrators, controls, and ancillaries available from a single source. Drugs of abuse analyzer must be a new analyzer from an authorized instrument distributor or the direct manufacturer. • Analyzer that is highly accurate with correlation results to GC/MS confirmation in excess of 98% and does not have a carryover affect from sample to sample in panel or random mode. • A complete random-access instrument capable of performing 300 tests per hour. Based on the estimated usage of 1000 to 2000 urine specimens per month for up to ten (10) abused drugs per urine in a seven (7) hour workday in a five (5) day week.
