The United States Department Of Naval Medical Research Center (NMRC) intends to make a sole source award to IDEXX LABORATORIES, Westbrook, ME. for the purchase of a Procyte DX Hematology Analyzer requires only 30 ul of anticoagulated blood and sample tube is returned in 30 seconds for futher 
testing. The machine only takes two minutes to run entire sample from start to finish. The hematology analyzer uses three technologies (Laser flow cytometry, optical fluorescence and Laminar Flow Impedance TM) in one for most accurate results. Laser flow cytometry delivers and advance five-part white blood cell differential. The ProCyte Dx analyzer uses fluorescence to perform a full analysis of multiple characteristics on each white blood cell for the most accurate interpretation of all five white blood cell types. Optical fluorescence provides an absolute rticulocyte count and accurate platelet count, with no interference from large red blood cells or clumped platelets. This is the only machine on the market besides the advanced clinical pathology laboratory analyzers that can provide a true absolute reticulocyte count in a portable analyzer. In addition, the ProCyte Dx offers further specificity when analyzing the components of the white blood count.

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