Specifications include, but are not limited to: The purpose of this bid invitation is to establish a contract for Laboratory Analytical services to the State of New Hampshire; Vendor shall provide Laboratory Analytical Services available to all State Agencies and other eligible participants. Eligible participants include political sub-divisions (counties, cities, towns, school districts, special district or precinct, or any other governmental organization), or any nonprofit agency under the provisions of section 501c of the federal internal revenue code, are eligible to participate under this contract whenever said sub-division or nonprofit agency so desires. These entities are autonomous and may participate at their sole discretion. In doing so, they are entitled to the prices established under the contract. However, they are solely responsible for their association with the successful Vendor. The State of New Hampshire assumes no liability between the successful Vendor and any of these entities. The contractor shall provide materials such as sample containers, coolers, preservatives, sample container labels, chain-of-custody forms, field blanks, trip blanks, and air sampling media for collecting the samples. The containers shall be clean and conform to the EPA quality control requirements and procedures, including preservation in accordance with applicable methodology. When requesting sampling equipment, the client will specify the number of trip blanks and field blanks required (i.e., such blanks may not be required by the client even if the analytical method requires them). A chain-of-custody form, completed by the client acts as the work order for laboratory analytical services, specifying the analyses to be performed and entity(-ies) to whom the results and invoice shall be provided.
