The South Carolina Department of Health & Environmental Control (DHEC) is seeking qualified vendors to provide Cystic Fibrosis (CF) reagent kits using newborn heel-stick specimens for CF DNA mutations. Reagent kits must be compatible with Luminex Corporation LX200 analyzer and the corresponding TDAS software currently in use in the DHEC Public Health Laboratory and must be FDA approved for newborn dried blood testing for a CF mutation panel that covers 60 CFTR mutations. The total estimated dollar amount of the purchase is $700,000.00 over a two-year period.

Qualified vendors should contact Whitney Carswell at carswewp@dhec.sc.gov by Midnight ET, May 18, 2021.

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