Title
Life Technologies Corporation
Description
For $49,000.00 in payment authority to purchase five Proflex 96-well Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) systems with an extended warranty/service agreement and a Veriflex Temperature Verification Kit, for the Phoenix Police Department's Crime Laboratory. These specialized PCR systems enable the crime lab to make millions of copies of short fragments of DNA that have been obtained from crime scenes and other known reference standards in order to make links from an item of evidence from a crime scene to a known DNA profile from an individual. The current instruments used for this process are being discontinued by the vendor and must be replaced in order to continue support and maintenance. The Veriflex unit is required to perform federally mandated calibration on these PCR Systems. Life Technologies is the exclusive provider and distributor of the Proflex 96-well PCR systems and Veriflex Temperature Verification units.