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USAMRAA on behalf of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR), Silver Spring, MD requests responses from qualified sources capable of providing equipment that is brand name or equal to the Omnitech Electronics' SuperFlex Fusion Openfield mouse/rat caging system or equivalent.

Minimum essential characteristics for the
SuperFlex Fusion Openfield Mouse/Rat caging system;
BRAND NAME OR EQUAL;
Qty:8

1. Fully integrated system for up to 32 animals
2. Simple Windows XP/7/8 plug and play USB communication to eliminate RS232 hassles
3. Windows 10 ready
4. Fusion Software to collects, stores, and exports exercise and coordination data for dozens of rodents per experiment
5. Software to track user supplied animal data such as Subject ID, Age, Weight, Sex, Type and Treatment Factors
6. Software design to ensure add-in variables, readouts and analysis methods
7. Post-experiment analysis capability to allow many analysis tools to be used on the same data file for various experiment designs
8. User definable rest time which can be changed post experiment
9. Selectable units option - both Imperial and Metric
10. Software to integrate multiple monitoring devices, such as photo beam arrays and wheel rotation,
11. Software to for storing and reproducing/replaying activity data
12. Real time graphing of variables during experiment
13. Able to records a minimum of 60 parameters. 14. Scan rate of 100 Frames per second per monitor
15. Availability of animal activity plotter which can plots the paths of test subjects across trials, batches and phases, and allows overlays of paths from multiple subjects.
16. Capable of extended duration experiments and 24/7 continual use
17. Ability to run experiments in a secure environment that meet or exceed GLP standards
18. Availability of Multi-Animal / Multi-Phase path tracing with high-resolution path overlay output.19. Shall have a enriched environment (running wheel) per cage
20. Shall have at least 16 infra-red light beam arrays in both X and Y axis.
21. Each cage shall have start/stop buttons
22. Shall be capable of expandability to 12 sensors or devices to Node.
23. Shall be able to generate 3 heat maps
24. Shall be capable for rat and mouse

 

 

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