DATE:
August 27, 2024
01
TO:
Board of Supervisors
SUBJECT
Title
SHERIFF - REQUEST FOR SINGLE SOURCE PROCUREMENTS OF TOXICOLOGY AND CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE TECHNOLOGY FROM GERSTEL AND AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES (DISTRICTS: ALL)
Body
OVERVIEW
The ability for the San Diego County Sheriff's Department Regional Crime Laboratory (Crime Lab) to perform toxicology analysis is vital to the County of San Diego. Much of the equipment procured by the Crime Lab to perform toxicology analysis is solely manufactured by Agilent. The items the Crime Lab is seeking to procure for toxicology will be procured from GERSTEL and manufactured by both GERSTEL and Agilent Technologies. This procurement package containing an Agilent Gas Chromatograph 8890 (GC-MS) and a GERSTEL Multi-Purpose Sampler (MPS) robotic sampler is a collaboration between the two companies, GERSTEL and Agilent Technologies, and is only available through GERSTEL. GERSTEL is the only vendor that can configure and deliver such a system encompassing the necessary analytical sample preparation and introduction capabilities with complete software control of the GERSTEL and Agilent components. The Agilent GC-MS with Gerstel MPS robotic sampler will allow the Crime Lab's Forensic Toxicology Section to advance their testing for volatile compounds to ensure accurate and specific chemical identification. These systems will also allow the Crime Lab to expand volatile testing to commonly used inhalant drugs as recommended by the National Safety Council, rather than send samples that need inhalant testing to a third-party laboratory at an additional cost. This will be the first ever GERSTEL system for the Crime Lab.
The Crime Lab is also seeking to purchase another Agilent 8890 Gas Chromatography System from Agilent Technologies, which is an analytical instrument that combines features of gas-chromatography and mass-spectrometry to identify various substances within a certain test sample. The Crime Lab's Controlled Substanc...
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