OU FEPP ROCKS

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• OU FEPP ROCKS!
• Success of the SWA at the University of Oklahoma

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Joe Grego

• Acquisitions Officer,Federal Excess Property
  Program Managerhttp//research.ou.edu/fepp/Natio
  nal Science Foundation Screenerhttp//www.nsf.gov
  /President - Users And Screeners
  Association/Federal Excess Personal Property
  Inc.http//www.usa-fepp.orgUniversity of
  OklahomaOffice of Research Services731 Elm
  Avenue, Room 134Robertson HallNorman, Oklahoma
  73019-2113Campus FEPP LocationBuilding SC-108,
  Room 121E-Mail grego_at_ou.eduTel Fax (405)
  325-4244

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What is it?

• What is the Stevenson-Wydler Technology
  Innovation Act of 1980, As Amended (SWA) and how
  did it evolve?

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It is a Law

• 15 United States Code 3710
• (15 U.S.C.3710)
• http//uscode.house.gov/download/pls/15C63.txt

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It was Amended by Public Law 102-245 (P.L.
102-245)

• The American Technology Preeminence Act of 1991,
  Public Law 102-245, February 14, 1992, 106 Stat.
  20, section 303, amended section 11 by adding at
  the end thereof a new subsection (i).

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15 U.S.C.3710 (i)

• (i) RESEARCH EQUIPMENT.--The Director of a
  laboratory, or the head of any Federal agency or
  department, may give research equipment that is
  excess to the needs of the laboratory, agency, or
  department to an educational institution or
  nonprofit organization for the conduct of
  technical and scientific education and research
  activities. Title of ownership shall transfer
  with a gift under the section.

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Clarifications

• Can occur at ANY time the Agency desires.
• It IS a Transfer of Excess Property.
• It is NOT a donation.
• Has a Statutory Basis.
• Not widely used.
• Optional, not mandatory.
• Efficient and fast transfer mechanism.
• Independent from EO 12999 (CFL)
• http//www.computers.fed.gov/public/aboutProg.asp

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Who is currently participating?

• DCMA
• NASA
• FAA
• EPA
• CDC
• NIH
• DoD
• DEA

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How can I use the SWA to transfer FEPP from my
Agency?

• First Inform upper level property management
  officials of this option with reference to 15
  U.S.C. 3710 (i).
• Second Determine if upper level property
  management officials from your particular Agency
  will allow participation. The law says may and
  not shall.
• Third Derive a process that is in harmony with
  your Agency.

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First Example

• I was on site at L-3 Aeromet in Tulsa OK. to
  pick up some items.
• Saw many other great items.
• Sent the following letter to the PLCO for that
  particular location, with a list of what we
  wanted.

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Letter to PLCO DCMA Dallas

• I respectfully request the transfer of the
  attached list of property located at the L-3
  Aeromet facility in Tulsa, Oklahoma under the
  authority of and in accordance with the
  Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of
  1980, As Amended, 15 U.S.C.3710(i)
• The address of our school
• Name of School University of Oklahoma
• Address 731 Elm Ave., Robertson
  Hall Room 134
• City, State, and Zip Norman, OK 73019-2113
• Telephone [phone]
• Fax [phone]
  
• Email grego_at_ou.edu
• Terms and Conditions
• I certify that an educational institution is
  obtaining the personal property listed on the
  attached document. My organization hereby
  releases and agrees to hold the Defense Contract
  Management Agency (DCMA) and persons acting on
  behalf of DCMA, harmless from any liability
  resulting from the receipt, shipment,
  installation, operation, handling, use and
  maintenance of the equipment after said equipment
  is physically removed from the DCMA facility.
• Sincerely,
• Joe Grego
• University of Oklahoma Federal Excess Personal
  Property Program Manager

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Mechanics

• PLCO reviewed the list and notified the Property
• Officer on site of approval.
• On site Property Officer prepared a DD Form
• 1149 for each schedule and then notified me
• when the items were ready for pick up.
• All was done under the authority of SWA.

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Does it work?

• Saved 62,484.48 from going to sale first
• time.
• Saved 177,033.82 from going to sale the
• second time.
• Reutilized a total of 239,518.30.
• This is almost one quarter of one million
  dollars,
• just from one site.

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Second Example

• Went to Commerce City in Denver, CO to pick up
  items.
• Talked with PLCO and provided him with a list of
• what I was currently seeking.
• Few weeks later PLCO e-mailed Schedule that
• contained many items of interest.
• Returned Schedule with several items marked.
• PLCO prepared a DD 1149 transferring the items to
  us.
• Went on site, signed the DD 1149 and acquired
• 37,657.00 that would have gone to sale.

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Third Example

• Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
• Contacted the Property Officer in regards to
• Amount of property available at their warehouse.
• Was assured that much was available.
• Flew to Atlanta, GA and screened warehouse.
• Property Officer prepared the Form HHS-22.
• Loaded up two 26 Penske trucks.
• Returned to Oklahoma with 1,571,656.14 for
• reutilization in University Research Labs.

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Fourth Example

• Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)
• Was notified by DEA Property Officer of excess
• items in Kansas City, MO.
• Property Officer prepared a Standard Form 120
• (SF-120).
• Went to DEA Lab and acquired 65,891.68 in
• excess research equipment.

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How do I employ the SWA to transfer property from
my Agency?

• Most of the time it is simply making a few
• phone calls or e-mails to upper level
• property managers.
• Each Agency will have Agency specific
• forms and policies so there is no single
• way to accomplish this mission.

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How can I use the SWA to acquire property for my
University?

• 1. Determine what Federal Agencies are in your
• area, including military installations.
• Locate the appropriate Site Property Officer,
  talk with them and explain the SWA authority.
• Provide them copies or web links to the statute
  and ask them to send them up the ladder to
  headquarters for examination.
• Cite other Federal Agencies that are currently
  participating under this Authority.

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FY05 Statistics

• We infused 1,269 Line Items (LI) with an Original
  Acquisition Cost (OAC) of 2,567,382.04 into the
  Universitys Research and Teaching
  Infrastructure.
• Top Categories / Analysis
• 119 Desktop Computers.
• 74 Laptop Computers.
• 56 Printers.
• 34 Computer Monitors.
• 34 Microscopes, (2 Above 5k).
• 65 Chairs.
• 21 Cameras.
• 6 Ovens.
• 23 Vacuum Pumps.
• 12 LCD Projectors.
• 1 Centrifuge, (1 Above 5k).
• 7 Gas Chromatographs.
• 1 Gas Chromatograph/Mass Spectrometer
• 3 Autoclaves
• 4 Spectrophotometers.

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FY06 Statistics

• We infused 1,537 Line Items (LI) with an Original
  Acquisition Cost (OAC) of 2,797,825.78 into the
  Universitys Research and Teaching
  Infrastructure.
• Top Categories / Analysis
• 191 Desktop Computers.
• 114 Laptop Computers.
• 41 Printers.
• 78 Computer Monitors.
• 33 Microscopes (21 were gt 5k).
• 67 Chairs.
• 25 Cameras.
• 28 Ovens.
• 30 Vacuum Pumps.
• 11 LCD Projectors.
• 33 Centrifuges (13 were gt 5k).
• 4 Gas Chromatographs.
• 1 Gas Chromatograph / Mass Spectrometer.
• 3 Autoclaves.
• 5 Spectrophotometers.

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Does it Work?
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Impact of SWA on Acquisition Sources
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Program Comparison(3rd Order Polynomial Trend
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OU FEPP Mission Statement Everything is
Negotiable
Joe
Destination
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FY05 Statistics

• We infused 1,269 Line Items (LI) with an Original
  Acquisition Cost (OAC) of 2,567,382.04 into the
  Universitys Research and Teaching
  Infrastructure.
• Top Categories / Analysis
• 119 Desktop Computers.
• 74 Laptop Computers.
• 56 Printers.
• 34 Computer Monitors.
• 34 Microscopes, (2 Above 5k).
• 65 Chairs.
• 21 Cameras.
• 6 Ovens.
• 23 Vacuum Pumps.
• 12 LCD Projectors.
• 1 Centrifuge, (1 Above 5k).
• 7 Gas Chromatographs.
• 1 Gas Chromatograph/Mass Spectrometer
• 3 Autoclaves
• 4 Spectrophotometers.

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FY05 Statistics

• 35 Digital Multimeters.
• 8 Function Generators.
• 11 Oscilloscopes.
• 16 Analytical Balances.
• 14 dc Power Supplies.
• 8 Signal Generators.
• 7 Spectrum Analyzers.
• 43 Pallets of Glassware.
• 107,232.00 Zeiss 8400 Series Inverted Microscope
  Camera System to Physics.
• Based on LI, the 0 - 1k Range was most
  significant.
• Based on OAC, the 1k - 5k Range was most
  significant.

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FY05 Budget Unit Data
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FY06 Statistics

• We infused 1,537 Line Items (LI) with an Original
  Acquisition Cost (OAC) of 2,797,825.78 into the
  Universitys Research and Teaching
  Infrastructure.
• Top Categories / Analysis
• 191 Desktop Computers.
• 114 Laptop Computers.
• 41 Printers.
• 78 Computer Monitors.
• 33 Microscopes (21 were gt 5k).
• 67 Chairs.
• 25 Cameras.
• 28 Ovens.
• 30 Vacuum Pumps.
• 11 LCD Projectors.
• 33 Centrifuges (13 were gt 5k).
• 4 Gas Chromatographs.
• 1 Gas Chromatograph / Mass Spectrometer.
• 3 Autoclaves.
• 5 Spectrophotometers.

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FY06 Statistics

• 23 Digital Multimeters.
• 6 Function Generators.
• 5 Oscilloscopes.
• 13 Analytical Balances.
• 30 dc Power Supplies.
• 2 Signal Generators.
• 5 Spectrum Analyzers.
• 9 Electronic Counters.
• 11,186 UMT2 Seven Place Digital Microbalance
  CBME.
• 82,051 PE Spectrum FT-IR with IR Microscope
  AME.
• Based on LI, the 0 - 1k Range was most
  significant.
• Based on OAC, the 1k - 5k Range was most
  significant.

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FY06 Budget Unit Data
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Actual Comments

• It is difficult to make a full accounting of the
  budgetary savings to my research program, but it
  is certainly well in excess of 200,000 to date.
  A second major benefit of the FEPP is that the
  equipment provides the opportunity to improve and
  to try new experiments without straining my
  research budget and jeopardizing my groups
  future.

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Actual Comments

• Because of FEPP, I have been able to upgrade all
  the computers approximately every two years at a
  cost less than a single system.

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Actual Comments

• I estimate that the Original Acquisition Cost
  (OAC) for all of the items I have received from
  FEPP over the past 2 years to be somewhere in the
  neighborhood of 75,000. My out-of-pocket cost
  has been only approximately 1500.

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Actual Comments

• I view this program as absolutely essential to my
  research program.
• The amount of glassware, and other laboratory
  items that I was able to procure from OU FEPP
  enabled me to go back to my office and cancel an
  order to a vendor of general scientific supplies
  totaling over 12, 000. I was also able to pick
  up several more pieces of equipment, two of these
  items alone saved me over 16,000.

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Actual Comments

• This cost savings allowed the FAA to increase the
  scope of the contract to increase the
  deliverables to the FAA at no increase in
  contract cost. OU FEPP equipment saved the U.S.
  taxpayer an additional 725,000 in funds under
  the 2.1 million dollar FAA contract
  DTFA01-99-A-00011 and allowed the FAA to develop
  the LAAS system at no cost to the taxpayers.
• When FEPP is used in FAA research, a great deal
  of money can be saved by the funding agency. In
  many cases the equipment is nearly new or is
  equipment that is no longer available. Just this
  FAA researcher alone was able to save the FAA
  over 1.2 million dollars through the
  reutilization of FEPP.

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Actual Comments

• The value of OU FEPP to me has been enormous in
  cost savings, convenience and utility.
• With its ever present enthusiasm and knowledge
  of the equipment, OU FEPP was extremely important
  in facilitating the outfitting of certain items
  of equipment at an extremely reduced cost to my
  startup funds.

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Actual Comments

• The resources made available to me during my
  first months at OU from the FEPP program has
  allowed to me to begin analyzing the data and
  writing a manuscript thus assisting me in getting
  my research agenda underway at OU and to more
  effectively use my start up funds to purchase
  current technologies to move my research forward.
  

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Actual Comments

• Their assistance in acquiring several different
  pieces of equipment (e.g. microscopes, video
  recorders, analytical balances, water
  purification systems, computers, vacuum pumps)
  and supplies (e.g. beakers, microscope slides)
  has been invaluable to my research and has saved
  my lab around 10,000 over the past few years.

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Actual Comments

• By being able to stock my labs with all the
  glassware, beakers, condensers, vacuum pumps
  etc., I was able to save between 5,000 and
  10,000 to spend on larger, more difficult to
  acquire equipment.

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Actual Comments

• I often see labs with plenty of funding, simply
  buying a new one when a piece of equipment
  fails. With todays pressures of continued
  publication and funding, time is against us and
  buying a new one certainly helps, but we are
  missing part of the education our graduates (and
  undergraduates) need. By understanding how
  equipment works, maintaining and fixing it, we
  learn how to solve problems and develop skills
  that will serve us throughout our lives. not to
  mention the green aspect of this re-use.

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Actual Comments

• Molecular Biology is an expensive endeavor and
  collectively these acquisitions have saved
  between 50,000 and 100,000 from my start up
  funds. This has in turn allowed me to purchase
  additional items that I would have not otherwise
  been able to afford.

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Actual Comments

• At virtually no cost to us, we were able to
  replace three aging computers in our labs with
  machines carrying much faster processors, hard
  drive space, memory, and internet connectivity.

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Actual Comments

• The best example of a real cost saver was a
  desktop computer system purchased for my full
  time lab technician. Instead of spending 1,500
  on a new system, we got a perfectly useful
  computer, flat screen monitor, keyboard, and
  mouse for only 13! I like to think of these
  types of savings in terms of employee costs
  saving 1,500 means I just covered ½ of the
  yearly salary costs for a Federal Work Study
  student. In turn, this means I can provide more
  opportunities for undergraduate students in my
  lab, enriching both their experiences at OU and
  my bottom-line need for laboratory assistants.
  This is a win-win situation for everyone.

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Actual Comments

• The chairs were in mint condition.  I think the
  total cost for the chairs was less than 30. 
  These chairs easily could have cost us 3000 if
  wed bought them new from an office furniture
  supplier.

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Actual Comments

• The total OAC of these three microscopes was
  10,326.35 and I got them for 206 . Hence, by
  acquiring them through OU FEPP, 10, 120.35 of
  precious Grant funds were conserved for other
  critical needs.

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Actual Comments

• It has been of immense benefit to my research and
  students by providing needed equipment that I
  could not have purchased.

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Actual Comments

• It is seldom these days that government can be
  called "efficient" but this program seems to be
  accomplishing that seemingly impossible task. 

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Actual Comments

• I received the ASE 200 from the OU FEPP program
  this past summer and it has been invaluable to my
  research involving the systematic extraction and
  screening of over 1000 herbal supplements.

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Actual Comments

• The acquisition of this instrument has
  significantly increased my research capabilities
  and has made possible experiments that I could
  not have performed previously.

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Actual Comments

• Through the efforts of the OUFEPP staff, we were
  able to replace the 1989 instrument with a
  modern, computer controlled spectrophotometer.
  The addition of this new instrument having
  significantly greater capabilities allowed us to
  make improvements to the laboratory manual for
  the course. The experiment for which this
  instrument was used was enhanced by adding
  procedures that could not have been performed
  with the previous spectrophotometer.

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Actual Comments

• The FEPP program has been very beneficial to IT
  in the past few years. Most recently, we acquired
  some excess utility carts and were able to repair
  them to use on campus. By utilizing FEPP, we were
  able to save roughly 2000 per cart.

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Actual Comments

• In my 43 years of research/teaching support, at
  three State universities, the OU FEPP Program is
  unequaled by any thing I have ever seen.  We have
  obtained many instruments through OU FEPP that we
  could not dreamed of having any other way. 

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Actual Comments

• OU FEPP has helped us immensely by providing us
  several shop tools for student use that we would
  not have been able to afford.

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Shining Examples!
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Single Molecule Opto-Electronics Laboratory Bumm
Group (OU Physics)
L.A. Bumm, Single Molecule Opto-Electronics
Laboratory, The Homer L. Dodge Department of
Physics and Astronomy, The University of
Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019.
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Single Molecule Opto-Electronics Laboratory Bumm
Group (OU Physics)
Research. The FEPP has been a valuable resource
in all aspects of my research. The FEPP was just
starting as I was setting up my laboratory.
Though the program I obtained my laboratory sink,
glassware cabinets, chemical storage cabinets,
explosion-proof chemical refrigerator, and
optical table. Many pieces of routine laboratory
equipment were also obtained this way, including
a Mettler electronic balance, two centrifuges, a
thermostatically controlled hot plate, magnetic
stirrers, UV lamps, carts, computers, laptop
computers, stereo microscopes, fiber
illuminators, voltmeters, oscilloscopes,
laboratory glassware, etc. FEPP has allowed me
to set up experiments that otherwise would have
not have been possible. For example I was
fortunate to obtain two Wiltron 68369B microwave
frequency synthesized signal generators (10 MHz -
40 GHz) (35,000 ea), which will be used to power
our microwave frequency ACSTM. Similarly, I also
procured a Zeiss inverted microscope system
(107,000) which will form the platform for a
combination optical/atomic force microscope. It
is difficult to make a full accounting of the
budgetary savings to my research program, but it
is certainly well in excess of 200,000 to date.
A second major benefit of the FEPP is that the
equipment provides the opportunity to improve and
to try new experiments without straining my
research budget and jeopardizing my groups
future.
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Single Molecule Opto-Electronics Laboratory Bumm
Group (OU Physics)
Teaching. The FEPP has been a valuable resource
in for obtaining equipment for our undergraduate
Electronics Laboratory (Phys2303). I have
acquired quality soldering stations for the
students to use, as well as boom stereo
microscopes for electronics inspection, and
cabinets for storage. The students also use
computers for data analysis and to develop
programs for FPGA-based digilab boards. Because
of FEPP, I have been able to upgrade all the
computers approximately every two years at a cost
less than a single system.
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Electronics Laboratory (Phys2303)(sophomore lab)
Unitron ZSB boom microscopes, (3,401 ea) used
for circuit inspection (RCP/NSF)
12 P IV 2.4 GHz Computer Systems (826 ea) used
to for data analysis and CAD based programming of
Xilinx FPGAs (DCMA/NSF)
Soldering stations, (300 ea) used to build
projects (FAA/SWA)
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Single Molecule Opto-Electronics Laboratory Bumm
Group (OU Physics)
Zeiss Inverted Microscope Camera System
(107,232) for AFM microscopy (NASA/NSF)
Top Con SL-4E Slit Lamp(5,280) converted to STM
tipchanging microscope (DRMO/NSF)
Unitron ZSB boom microscope, (3,401) used for
routine assembly (RCP/NSF)
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Single Molecule Opto-Electronics Laboratory Bumm
Group (OU Physics)
Mettler PC-440 top load balance used forroutine
nanoparticle preparation, 2,208 (NASA/NSF)
Beckman TJ-6 centrifuge used for nanoparticle
preparation andlarge routine sample preparation,
4,409 (CDC/SWA)
IEC bench top clinical centrifuge used for
routine sample preparation, 1,199 (CDC/SWA)
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Single Molecule Opto-Electronics Laboratory Bumm
Group (OU Physics)
Two Wiltron 68347B Synthesized Signal Generator
10MHz20GHz, (34,518 each) (FAA/SWA)
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Unsaturated Soil Mechanics Laboratory

• Federal Excess Property Program
• When I came here in January 2005, I was fresh
  out of a PhD program at the University of
  Massachusetts, Amherst and looking forward to
  outfitting my University of Oklahoma, Civil
  Engineering and Environmental Science labs with
  equipment to keep on rolling with my research. I
  started to put together an equipment, parts and
  supplies list assuming everything would be bought
  new, and I realized that it would cost upwards of
  100,000 to just get basic, laboratory equipment
  such as scales, vacuum pumps, ovens, glassware
  and other supplies for my research. I was
  pointed toward the OU FEPP program and went down
  to discuss starting my laboratory. I left with 2
  desktop computers for lab data acquisition, 4
  Welch vacuum pumps, 1 laboratory drying oven and
  several cartons of glassware. Since then I have
  picked up several high precision box scales, high
  capacity bench scales, ovens, more vacuum pumps,
  power supplies, multimeters, ohm meters, laptops,
  air compressors, calipers, and a laundry list of
  other items all in working order. OU FEPP keeps
  my list of needed items and whenever they come
  into FEPP, I get an email asking me to come down
  and pick them up. This is an invaluable service
  and OU FEPP does a great job finding equipment
  that faculty need. Starting my laboratory at OU
  was made financially feasible by the FEPP and
  stretched my start-up package much further. I
  estimate that the Original Acquisition Cost (OAC)
  for all of the items I have received from FEPP
  over the past 2 years to be somewhere in the
  neighborhood of 75,000. My out-of-pocket cost
  has been only approximately 1500. The OU FEPP
  program provides an important service for new
  faculty starting up research programs and I hope
  that I will continue to receive excellent
  equipment at excellent prices through it.

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FEPP obtained Vacuum Pump for testing Specific
Surface Area of clays, 1,553
FEPP obtained Vacuum Pump for testing Specific
Surface Area of clays (RCP/NSF)
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FEPP obtained Glassware for the OTC funded
project, Sulfate Induced Heave in
Lime-Stabilized Soils, 100 (CDC/SWA)
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FEPP obtained Cole Parmer Laboratory Drying Oven
for CEES 3364 Soil Mechanics Laboratory, 768
(NASA/NSF)
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Two FEPP obtained Mettler AM-100 Balances for
unsaturated soil suction filter paper
Measurements, 2,150 ea (DEA/SWA)
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Cooling and Trapping LaboratoryShaffer Group (OU
Physics)
I am writing to thank you for your support of
the Federal Excess Personal Property Program
(FEPP) at OU. I view this program as absolutely
essential to my research program. When I go to
international conferences and face the resources
available to my competition at research 1 and
European institutions, it can be frustrating. One
way that I can compete with these institutions is
to take advantage of FEPP. This program is smart
and efficient. OU FEPP has often helped me to
obtain the necessary equipment my research group
needs to be successful. My group has acquired
everything from essential electronic equipment to
optical tables from OU FEPP. On several
occasions, the OU FEPP Program has kept their
eye out for equipment that my group has been
searching for and has found it for us. In these
times of stagnant federal research funding, it is
particularly important that OU support programs
like OU FEPP. With the help of OU FEPP,
researchers at OU can do the ground breaking work
needed to win research funding. I am a strong
believer that OU will make its way to become a
premier research 1 institution. It is innovative
programs like OU FEPP that will help us to
achieve this goal. Sincerely, James P.
Shaffer Assistant Professor of Physics The Homer
L. Dodge Department of Physics and Astronomy 440
W. Brooks St. Norman, OK, 73019 PH (405)
325-3961 (x36143) FAX [phone] shaffer_at_nhn.
ou.edu
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Newport 4 x 6 Optics Table 3,230 (DCMA/SWA)
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Microbial Physiology / Molecular Biology
Laboratory

• Thank you for providing the support for the
  FEPP, under the direction of Joe Grego. As a new
  faculty member, I have been able to greatly
  extend my start-up funding thanks to the work of
  OU FEPP. My first trip to OU FEPP was right
  after an influx of material from the Center for
  Disease Control. The amount of glassware, and
  other laboratory items that I was able to procure
  from OU FEPP enabled me to go back to my office
  and cancel an order to a vendor of general
  scientific supplies totaling over 12, 000. This
  was probably a good example of great timing but I
  then was also able to pick up several more pieces
  of equipment, two of these items alone saved me
  over 16,000. One of these first items was a
  gradient thermal cycler. We use this piece of
  equipment virtually around the clock in my
  laboratory (pictured below) and by the MBIO 4873
  (Microbial Physiology/Molecular Biology)
  laboratory that I am teaching this semester.
  With a plastic protective case from FEPP, my
  laboratory took the thermal cycler out into the
  field and used it during BioBlitz2006. With this
  thermal cycler and several other pieces of
  equipment acquired through FEPP, were able to set
  up a working molecular biology laboratory in a
  cafeteria at Quartz Mountain State Park and share
  our science with the 200 participants and
  visitors of the BioBlitz2006 event. Another
  success story for the FEPP is our Coy anoxic
  vinyl glove bag (pictured below). We saved over
  5,000 compared to the cost of a new glove bag.
  We are using this anoxic glove bag on a daily
  basis. OU FEPP has been a tremendous resource
  for my fledgling laboratory and limited start-up
  funds. We have been able to redirect a
  significant amount of money towards other
  equipment, supplies, consumables, and salary that
  would have otherwise gone into basic equipment
  and outfitting a new lab. The teaching
  laboratory has also benefited significantly
  through numerous equipment acquisitions from OU
  FEPP (microcentrifuges, incubators, waterbaths,
  test tube racks, glassware, etc.). In my
  opinion, the OU FEPP Program should be given
  continued and increased support. The pay-off for
  faculty, students, and the University is very
  real.

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MJ Research PTC-200 DNA Engine - 10,532.80
(CDC/SWA) and Coy Labs Glove Bag - 5,000.00
(EPA/SWA)
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Navigation Research Institute

• The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has a
  group of contracts to perform Terminal Instrument
  Procedures (TERPS) testing of Wide Area
  Augmentation Systems (WAAS) and Local Area
  Augmentation Systems (LAAS) together with the
  development of Collision Risk Monitoring
  Equipment. During the duration of these
  contracts, contracts 77, DTFAAC04A-00007 Prism
  orders 1 thru 10, the University of Oklahoma
  Federal Excess Personal Property Program (OU
  FEPP) Program saved the FAA more than 560,000.00
  by allowing the contract to obtain necessary
  equipment through the FEPP program. This
  equipment ranged from test equipment such as
  spectrum analyzers to computers to solar panels
  to just name a few. This cost savings allowed
  the FAA to increase the scope of the contract to
  increase the deliverables to the FAA at no
  increase in contract cost.
• In addition to the savings mentioned above, OU
  FEPP equipment saved the U.S. taxpayer an
  additional 725,000 in funds under the 2.1
  million dollar FAA contract DTFA01-99-A-00011 and
  allowed the FAA to develop the LAAS system at no
  cost to the taxpayers.
• These are just two examples of when FEPP is used
  in FAA research, a great deal of money can be
  saved by the funding agency. In many cases the
  equipment is nearly new or is equipment that is
  no longer available. Just this FAA researcher
  alone was able to save the FAA over 1.2 million
  dollars through the reutilization of FEPP.

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2 HP 83731A Synthesized Signal Generators,
36,970 Each (FAA/SWA)
84
10 Tektronix 492P Programmable Spectrum
Analyzers, 29,810 Each (FAA/SWA)
85
New HP 8563A Portable Spectrum Analyzer
w/Manuals, 40,595 (FAA/SWA)
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Microscale Heat Transfer Laboratory

• The Federal Excess Personal Property Program has
  been a Godsend to my research at OU. Since
  starting as a new faculty in fall of 2004, my
  work in the area of thermal materials
  characterization has required that I build a new
  lab basically from scratch. I am somewhat unique
  in that OU FEPP has provided me with both large
  (FTIR / Infrared Microscope system 90K, Figure
  3), medium (3 vacuum pumps _at_ 1,500 each), and
  small (test chambers and glassware) items.
• While being able to procure an expensive piece
  of equipment such as an IR microscope was a huge
  advantage, perhaps the most useful service that
  OU FEPP has provided is access to a stock of
  general use scientific equipment. On two recent
  occasions, I went to OU FEPP looking for very
  unique and somewhat hard-to-find items. A set of
  my experiments required a vacuum chamber with
  through-wire connection ports. This chamber
  would have required weeks or months to build and
  would have undoubtedly cost many thousands of
  dollars, but I found nearly an ideal candidate in
  a recent shipment of CDC surplus items (Figure
  1). Having this chamber on-hand saved me an
  enormous amount of legwork, time and money. On
  another occasion, I needed a three axis
  positioning system for a delicate surface
  scanning probe I was using. I wasnt even sure
  what device would work best for the application.
  OU FEPP had a microscope stand with three-axis
  control that I was able to adapt perfectly to my
  experiment (Figure 2). If I had built or ordered
  one I dont believe I could have come up with
  anything better suited. The value of OU FEPP to
  me has been enormous in cost savings, convenience
  and utility.

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Microscale Heat Transfer Laboratory


Figure 1 FEPP equipment in use vacuum test
chamber (on table), 1,399 (CDC/SWA) along with
vacuum oven, 856 (CDC/SWA) and vacuum pumps (on
floor), 1,578 and 1,399 (DCMA/SWA)
Figure 2 A three axis translational positioning
stand a very unique piece of surplus equipment
that was an ideal solution for the problem at
hand. Microscope Boom- 729 (DRMO/NSF) and X,Y,Z
Slide - 2,859 (NASA/SWA)

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Perkin Elmer Spectrum GX FT-IR with Auto Image
Infrared Microscope System - 99,051
Figure 3 An FTIR / Infrared Microscope system.
This dream system would normally cost nearly
100K, but FEPP procured it for pennies on the
dollar (DEA/SWA)
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Lawson Molecular Systematics Laboratory

• Dr. Paul A. Lawson
• 
  Department of Botany
  and Microbiology
• 
  GLCH Rm 813
• 
  Paul.lawson_at_ou.edu
• 17th Nov 2006.
• To whom it may concern
• This is a letter of support for the undertakings
  of the OU FEPP and its Program Manager Joe
• Grego and his staff. I relocated to OU from the
  University of Reading, UK in the fall of 2005.
  As is usual in these circumstances, OU provided a
  startup package with which to outfit my
  laboratory and office. I became aware of the OU
  FEPP Program shortly after my arrival and was
  introduced to its treasure trove of equipment.
  With its ever present enthusiasm and knowledge
  of the equipment, OU FEPP was extremely important
  in facilitating the outfitting of certain items
  of equipment at an extremely reduced cost to my
  startup funds. A number of my colleagues have
  also used the OU FEPP and again I hear nothing
  but complementary remarks about its services and
  staff.
• Over the past 15 months or so I have visited OU
  FEPP on numerous occasions for particular items
  of equipments if the items were not available,
  the staff made arrangements to keep my
  requirements listed and contacted me when such
  items became available. To name just a few items
  that have been obtained from OU FEPP are,
  benchtop centrifuges, desktop PCs and monitors,
  numerous waterbaths, vortex, hotplates,
  glassware, incubators and items of laboratory
  furniture.
• Enclosed is a photograph of my two graduate
  students who have both been the grateful
  recipients of laptop computers enabling them to
  analyze data on the move etc. I envisage
  continuing to use the facilities of the OU FEPP
  throughout my career at OU. OU FEPP is an
  exceptional service to both newly appointed and
  long-term faculty and should be supported from
  all members of the University.
• Yours faithfully,
• Dr. Paul A. Lawson

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Two Dell Latitude Laptops 1,966 each (NASA/SWA)
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Educational Psychology

• One of the greatest challenges in
  instructing students who are studying to be
  teachers to use technology is to model the kind
  of equipment they could expect to see at local
  schools.  Many times, they will have access to
  older equipment, like digital cameras and
  camcorders, that lack the owners manuals and are
  imperfect condition.  The  OU FEPP program has
  been invaluable to me as I have started to
  collect technology equipment for my students to
  use in addition to the resources available in the
  college.  The OU FEPP staff has helped me obtain
  digital cameras for my students to use to
  complete class projects.    This is my first
  semester at OU as an assistant professor. As I am
  building authentic learning experiences for my
  students, I make the OU FEPP website and office a
  regular stop in order to obtain appropriate
  technology and to be able to make the most of the
  student fees associated with my course.   In
  addition,  I was able to obtain an older but
  pristine camcorder.  When I came to OU, I brought
  with me two years of data recorded in that older
  video format.  Without a camera to play them, I
  had not yet been able to process the data.  The
  resources made available to me during my first
  months at OU from the FEPP program has allowed to
  me to begin analyzing the data and writing a
  manuscript thus assisting me in getting my
  research agenda underway at OU and to more
  effectively use my start up funds to purchase
  current technologies to move my research forward.
   Theresa CullenAssistant ProfessorInstructiona
  l Psychology and Technology ProgramEducational
  Psychology Department

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Sony Digital Cameras, 599 (NASA/SWA) 700
(NASA/SWA) and Camcorder, 1,048.23 (FAA/SWA)
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Microfabrication, Cell Adhesion and Biosensors
Laboratory

• I am writing this letter of support for the
  Federal Excess Personal Property Program. Their
  assistance in acquiring several different pieces
  of equipment (e.g. microscopes, video recorders,
  analytical balances, water purification systems,
  computers, vacuum pumps) and supplies (e.g.
  beakers, microscope slides) has been invaluable
  to my research and has saved my lab (gt 10,000)
  over the past few years. Furthermore the use of
  this equipment has allowed my lab to acquire the
  necessary data to write successful grants to the
  National Institutes of Health (NIH), the National
  Science Foundation (NSF) and the Oklahoma Center
  for the Advancement of Science and Technology
  (OCAST). I also have personal knowledge of this
  program benefiting other faculty research groups
  in the School of Chemical, Biological, and
  Materials Engineering as well. Finally, in
  addition to helping my lab to acquire this
  equipment, The Program is always looking to help
  others. We need the FEPP program at OU.
• Sincerely,
• David W. Schmidtke, Ph.D.
• Associate Professor
• School of Chemical, Biological, and Materials
  Engineering
• University of Oklahoma
• 100 East Boyd, SEC T-217
• Norman, OK 73019
• TEL [phone]
• FAX [phone]
• E-mail dschmidtke_at_ou.edu

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DuPont RC-3B Centrifuge 17,231 (CDC/SWA)
95
Olympus Model BH-2 Microscope 4,081.25 (DRMO/NSF)
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Forma Scientific 1025 Glove Box 7,949 (EPA/SWA)
97
Leica TP 1050 Tissue Processor 38,852.68 (VA/NSF)
98
Tissue Tek 4603 Tissue Embedding Center, 9,425
(FAA/SWA)
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CBME Tissue Engineering Laboratory
Tissue engineering and the OU FEPP program. I
arrived at OU early in 2002 as a Research
Assistant Professor in Chemical, Biological and
Materials Engineering to begin an engineering
tissue culture facility, as well as my own
research to engineer organs and tissues to
replace damaged or diseased body parts. Due to my
research successes I was offered a tenure track
position earlier this year, although this was the
result of many factors, this success was in-part
due to the resources supplied to me by the OU
FEPP program. I became familiar with OU FEPP
after one of our staff members mentioned their
uncanny ability to acquire equipment out of the
Federal Excess Personal Property system. Not long
after our first introductions, Joe and I went on
a trip to the US EPA in Florida to pick up a
number of essential items that not only benefited
my lab but several others in CBME (and other
departments). Although many of these initial
items were not heavy money items they made a
huge impact on my financial situation. By being
able to stock my labs with all the glassware,
beakers, condensers, vacuum pumps etc., I was
able to save between 5,000 and 10,000 to spend
on larger, more difficult to acquire equipment. A
further example of how useful the OU FEPP program
has been was after a small accident occurred in
our lab where a series of reflux condensers
failed due to an error in programming a heating
controller. We were able to replace 600 worth of
condensers for pennies with the OU FEPP
program brilliant! Although not the best example
of lab competence, accidents happen and we were
quickly able to get started again without
spending precious grant (or start-up) funds.
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CBME Tissue Engineering Laboratory

• Although sometimes seen as the down side
  to second hand equipment, reliability can be an
  issue, but it also adds tremendously to our
  teaching efforts. I often see labs with plenty of
  funding, simply buying a new one when a piece
  of equipment fails. With todays pressures of
  continued publication and funding, time is
  against us and buying a new one certainly
  helps, but are we missing part of the education
  our graduates (and undergraduates) need. By
  understanding how equipment works, maintaining
  and fixing it, we learn how to solve problems and
  develop skills that will serve us throughout our
  lives. Although I wouldnt advocate too much of
  this, as it is time consuming, but it can be seen
  as a side benefit (from a teaching perspective).
  not to mention the green aspect of this re-use.
  
• We have received a long and glorious list
  of supplies and equipment from the OU FEPP
  program, most of which has had a significant
  impact on my research. A shortened list (with
  some photos) are shown below. Since these initial
  experiences with and the initiation of the OU
  FEPP program, our lab has received new funding
  and continues to pursue new funding avenues. In
  addition to boosting essential equipment, the OU
  FEPP program allows me/us to explore new avenues
  of research at minimal cost. An example of this
  is with a recent acquisition of hypoxia (zero
  oxygen) chamber from OU FEPP. Part of my work is
  mimicking the bodies own repair mechanisms so we
  can develop improved techniques to enhance tissue
  regeneration. To do this we needed a controlled
  gasses, one was found, with very little use (i.e.
  in perfect working order), and we were able to
  convert it to a controlled gasses chamber (worth
  over 30,000) for very little cost. By doing this
  we now have interesting preliminary data that
  will support a NIH R01 grant application (1.9
  million) currently under review. Without the
  support of the OU FEPP we would not have been
  able to do this period.
• So, thanks to the powers that be, for your
  support of this program and the often hard to see
  down stream positive effects it has on OUs
  research performance.

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CBME Tissue Engineering Laboratory

• Lexica Tissue processor
• Capillary Electrophoresis
• Microtome
• Wax embedding equipment
• Autoclave
• Centrifuges (tissue culture and high speed)
• Hypoxia cabinet
• ELMO and video recording equipment for pressure
  testing materials
• Vacuum pumps
• Condenser
• Light racks for photo cross-linking
• Rotovap
• Centrivap
• Toolboxs
• Numerous hand tools
• Copious glassware

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Bactron Anaerobic Chamber, 35,780 (CDC/SWA)
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Sorvall RT 7 Refrigerated Centrifuge, 7,988
(DRMO/NSF)

• Photos

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Labconco Centrifugal Concentrator Cold Trap,
5,414 (EPA/SWA)
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HP G1600AX 3D Capillary Electrophoresis System,
46,118 (EPA/NSF)
106
NEW Precision Low Temp Bacteriological Incubator,
3,913 (RCP/NSF)
107
Leitz Model 1512 Rotary Microtome, 11,198
(CDC/SWA)
108
Tuttnauer 3870 Benchtop Autoclave, 7,089
(DEA/SWA)
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Vertebrate Evolution and Development Laboratory
110
Juoan CR422 Centrifuge - 9,680 (CDC/SWA) and
Forma 3110 Incubator - 6,390 (CDC/SWA)
111
Ultra Lum UltraCAM CCD Digital Imaging System -
24,359 (CDC/SWA)
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Crustacean Ecdysteroid Signaling Laboratories

• Dear Dean Williams,
• I want to voice my wholehearted thanks to the OU
  Federal Excess Personal Property (FEPP) Program.
   This resource has, over the past several months,
  greatly enhanced our teaching and research
  mission by providing high quality surplus
  instrumentation at fantastic savings relative to
  the cost of new equipment. Our first major
  acquisitions were three Compac Pentium III
  computers that had been obtained by OU FEPP from
  the DOD. At virtually no cost to us, we were
  able to replace three aging computers in our labs
  with machines carrying much faster processors,
  hard drive space, memory, and internet
  connectivity. One of those computers is now
  available to undergraduate independent study
  students for data analysis and internet access in
  our main lab one has been allocated for use by a
  new graduate student in her office, and the third
  is interfaced with a gel documentation system in
  a common equipment room (photos enclosed).

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2 of 117 Compaq Model Evo P IV 2.4 GHz Computers,
826 each (DCMA/NSF)
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Fisher Scientific 166 MP Histomatic Tissue
Processor - 14,000 (CDC/SWA)
Other recent acquisitions have replaced a drying
oven that malfunctioned, and a shaker water bath.
Our most recent purchase (a misnomer, since
the instrument was obtained gratis) is an
automated tissue processor for histology. We are
still getting it spiffed up and will test it
soon. I recently priced this instrument on
lineit was selling for 6,095 dollars
refurbished. (picture at right).
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Holt Laboratory

• This brief note is in strong support of the
  University of Oklahomas FEPP program. During my
  labs startup phase, I have been looking for ways
  to minimize overall costs. In this regard, OU
  FEPP has been very helpful. While we have picked
  up a number of nice small items, the best example
  of a real cost saver was a desktop computer
  system purchased for my full time lab technician.
  Instead of spending 1,500 on a new system, we
  got a perfectly useful computer, flat screen
  monitor, keyboard, and mouse for only 13! I
  like to think of these types of savings in terms
  of employee costs saving 1,500 means I just
  covered ½ of the yearly salary costs for a
  Federal Work Study student. In turn, this means I
  can provide more opportunities for undergraduate
  students in my lab, enriching both their
  experiences at OU and my bottom-line need for
  laboratory assistants. This is a win-win
  situation for everyone.
• Ben Holt
• Assistant Professor
• Botany / Microbiology

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1 of 117 Compaq Model Evo P IV 2.4 GHz Computers,
826 each (DCMA/NSF)
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Sociology Department Computer Laboratory

• The Sociology Department, with assistance from
  the College of Arts and Sciences, maintains a
  computer lab with 17 desk top computers. 
  Recently, we purchased chairs for the computer
  room from FEPP.  The chairs were in mint
  condition.  I think the total cost for the chairs
  was less than 30.  These chairs easily could
  have cost us 3000 if wed bought them new from
  an office furniture supplier.  We are very happy
  to have them, particularly our students who
  occupy them most of the time.
• Craig St. John, Professor and Chair
• Department of Sociology
• Kaufman Hall 331
• University of Oklahoma
• Norman, OK 73019
• [phone]
• cstjohn_at_ou.edu

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25 Sociology Computer Lab Chairs, 313 Each
(FAA/SWA)
119
OU NanoLab
120
OU NanoLab
121
OU NanoLab

• Significant savings were realized by acquiring
  these microscopes through FEPP versus having to
  purchase them. There are three microscopes
• Nikon LaboPhot 2 Microscope - 6,026.35
  (RCP/NSF)
• Industrial Mill Supply Microscope - 2,210
  (DOE/NSF)
• Bristoline Microscope - 2,090 (DOE/NSF)
• The total OAC of these three microscopes was
  10,326.35. Hence, by acquiring them through OU
  FEPP, 10,326.35 of precious Grant funds were
  conserved for other critical needs. It goes
  without saying that as budgets continue to
  tighten, the FEPP program is, and shall continue
  to be, a very attractive, productive and viable
  source of research equipment.

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Molecular Identification of Environmentally
Relevant Microorganisms Laboratory

• I would like to thank you for sponsoring the OU
  FEPP program. It has been of immense benefit to
  my research and students by providing needed
  equipment that I could not have purchased. For
  example, OU FEPP recently transferred two damaged
  Nikon binocular microscopes to me, but I was able
  to use my SRI funds to repair them so that I now
  have one microscope that is in excellent
  condition. I've found also that the OU FEPP
  program contributes to the educational mission of
  OU the same microscope has been extensively used
  by an undergraduate student during his
  independent research project in my
  lab.Sincerely,Kathleen E. DuncanResearch
  AssociateDept. Botany and Microbiologyand The
  Institute for Energy and the EnvironmentThe
  University of OklahomaPhone 405-325-4892

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12 NEW Nikon Labophot-2 Microscopes w/Case,
6,026 (RCP/NSF)
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Oklahoma Mesonet

• I wanted to thank you for your support of the
  Federal Excess Personal Property Program here on
  the OU campus.  We recently received some very
  nice hard plastic cases through this program that
  our technicians will be using to protect
  equipment they need for field work.  I have also
  spoken with them about some other needs we have
  in the Mesonet that this program might be able to
  fulfill.  This is a very helpful program
  especially in these times of very tight budgets.
  It also gets excess equipment into the hands of
  people that can really use it instead of being
  stored in some government warehouse or dumpster,
  or worse yet, being sold for less than pennies on
  the dollar!  It is seldom these days that
  government can be called "efficient" but this
  program seems to be accomplishing that seemingly
  impossible task.  We at the Mesonet thank you for
  supporting this worthwhile program and urge you
  to continue your support. 

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108 New Doskocil Hardshell Pistol Cases, 79 Each
(FAA/SWA)
126
Natural Products Discovery Group Investigates
World-Wide Neuro-Safety Concerns of the Botanical
Supplements Industry

• I received the ASE 200 from the OU FEPP program
  this past summer and it has been invaluable to my
  research involving the systematic extraction and
  screening of over 1000 herbal supplements. This
  project simply would not be possible at anywhere
  near its current scale or scope if it were not
  for the ASE.  It has allowed me to extract eight
  samples with three different solvents in just six
  hours, a feat that would otherwise take upwards
  of two weeks time.  The ASE also uses only a
  fraction of solvent needed compared to
  conventional extraction methods, saving money and
  increasing environmental friendliness.  The ASE
  has been an all around great machine it has
  intuitive operation, impressive results and I
  cannot begin to imagine my project without it. 
•  
•    

127
Dionex ASE 200 Automatic Solvent Extractor,
49,647 (DCMA/SWA)
128
Kessler Farm Field Laboratory

• The small trailer that is used to carrying
  equipment.  It's greatbecause it fits in places
  where a big flat bed won't go (like being ableto
  cross the creek at the low water crossing).
• Here's a picture of the sprayer which is going
  to be our primary toolto fit the incursion of
  an exotic plant species onto the farm. 
  Withoutthe trailer, we would have had a very
  difficult time getting this to thefarm.
• This is the large capacity jack that Ben used to
  level the NSSLbuilding.   Before we could get
  electricity or do some minorrenovations, the
  building had to be level and settled.
• Here's the NSSL building that was leveled so
  people can see what sizestructure we're talking
  about.
• Linda L. Wallace, Ph.D.Director, Kessler Farm
  Field LaboratoryProfessor of BotanyDepartment
  of Botany MicrobiologyUniversity of
  OklahomaNorman, OK 73019(405) 325-6685FAX
  [phone]lwallace_at_ou.edu

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KFFL Trailer, 500 (NASA/SWA)
130
KFFL Sprayer, Purchased
131
KFFL Heavy Duty Leveling Jack, 50 (FAA/SWA)
132
Leveled NSSL Building, Priceless
133
Thermal Process Analysis Laboratory

• I commend the OU FEPP Program their continuing
  efforts to obtain equipment for university
  research and I would like to express my
  appreciation for the OUFEPP Program. It has
  allowed me to obtain quality used equipment that
  I currently am unable to afford to purchase new.
  My research requires the use of a chemical
  analysis instrument called a mass spectrometer.
  The one that I have been using is almost 20 years
  old and was purchased for 120,000. It is
  obsolete and showing its age. Newer models are
  much smaller, more reliable, and operate more
  efficiently. Unfortunately, grant proposals that
  I have submitted requesting funds to purchase a
  new instrument have not been funded. Last year a
  table-top mass spectrometer from a DEA lab was
  obtained through the OUFEPP program. I visited
  the OU FEPP location and we powered up the unit
  and determined that it was in good working order.
  I purchased the instrument for 2 of its initial
  cost and have since mounted it on a cart (see
  photo). The cart enables me to use it as a stand
  alone instrument or in combination with other
  instruments in my laboratory. The acquisition of
  this instrument has significantly increased my
  research capabilities and has made possible
  experiments that I could not have performed
  previously. I anticipate that this mass
  spectrometer will provide many years of useful
  service to me and my graduate students. Because
  it is portable, it can be moved to other labs on
  campus to facilitate collaborations with other
  research groups that would otherwise have been
  very difficult or impossible.

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Modified HP 5973A MSD, 38,796 (DEA/SWA)
135
Thermal Process Analysis Laboratory
The Department of Chemistry Biochemistry is
committed to providing undergraduate students
with the best possible training. In upper
division laboratory courses this training often
requires the use of chemical analysis
instrumentation. Unfortunately, funds available
for purchase of the necessary instrumentation are
sparse and the instruments are typically
expensive (10,000 - 20,000). As a result,
instruments found in our upper division teaching
laboratories are often old and require frequent
repair. To date, the OUFEPP program has enabled
us to upgrade one of the 10 instruments used in
our senior "Instrumental Analysis Laboratory"
course (CHEM 4033). We hope that other
instruments may be replaced/upgraded with the aid
of OUFEPP in the future. The infrared
spectrophotometer that was used for CHEM 4033 was
purchased in 1989. It was a push button operated
instrument that employed a plotter as the only
means of data output. Through the efforts of the
OUFEPP staff, we were able to replace the 1989
instrument with a modern, computer controlled
spectrophotometer (see photo). The addition of
this new instrument having significantly greater
capabilities allowed us to make improvements to
the laboratory manual for the course. The
experiment for which this instrument was used was
enhanced by adding procedures that could not have
been performed with the previous
spectrophotometer. Students particularly like
the fact that the new instrument allows them to
save their data on removable computer media and
they can incorporate spectra directly into
written documents because the computer data
system also supports word processing and the
Windows XP operating system. Professor Robert L.
White Department of Chemistry
Biochemistry University of Oklahoma
136
Mattson Genesis II FT-IR, 18,715 (DEA/SWA)
137
OU IT

• The FEPP program has been very beneficial to IT
  in the past few years. Most recently, we acquired
  some excess utility carts and were able to repair
  them to use on campus. By utilizing FEPP we were
  able to save roughly 2000 per cart.

138
13 Cushman Electric Trucks (2,855 each)
(FAA/SWA) Before
139
Cushman Electric Truck, 2,855 (FAA/SWA)
After
140
Cushman Electric Truck, 2,855 (FAA/SWA)
After Well Pimp My Ride!!
141
Opera Scene Shop HP 650M Plotter, 8,160
(NASA/SWA)
142
Computer Generated Scene Templates from Plotter
143
OU Landscaping Cushman Truckster With Dump Bed,
2,135 (FAA/SWA)
144
Electrical Engineering TD-GC/MS Research
Laboratory

• It goes without saying that budgets continue to
  get tighter, and it is likely that this trend
  will continue, the role of Federal Excess
  Personal Property (FEPP) will increasingly become
  significant for scientific investigators to
  actively pursue research interests. Not only are
  budgets decreasing, the cost of acquiring and
  maintaining research equipment continues to rise.
  Thus, to be competitive in this arena, one must
  either adapt or be left behind. Additionally, one
  must utilize various sources as many times single
  agencies don't have the required inventory to
  provide a complex system. Private companies as
  well can contribute to supplement FEPP to reflect
  the Users and Screeners Association (USA-FEPP)
  directive of "highest and best utilization". The
  system shown in the following photo was assembled
  with items from 6 sources. The Gas
  Chromatograph/Mass Spectrometer (GC/MS) was
  obtained from the Veterans Administration Medical
  Center (VAMC) in St. Louis, MO (VA/NSF). The
  black box in the upper right hand corner is a
  Thermal Desorption Tube Conditioner (TDTC) that
  was obtained from Conoco, a private company. The
  unit just below the TDTC is a Thermal Desorption
  Unit (TDU) that was acquired from the Oklahoma
  Department of Environmental Quality. The timer,
  and associated vacuum pump that can't be seen as
  it is behind the TDU, came from the US
  Environmental Protection Agency Robert S. Kerr
  Environmental Research Laboratory (US EPA RSKERL)
  in Ada, OK (EPA/SWA). The computer, monitor, zip
  drive and CD Burner were picked up from the
  Federal Aviation Administration Mike Monroney
  Aeronautical Center (FAA MMAC) in Oklahoma City,
  OK (FAA/SWA). The printer and computer desk were
  received from the Oklahoma City Defense
  Reutilization and Marketing Organization (DRMO)
  (DRMO/NSF). Individually, the pieces are
  marginally productive but when integrated into a
  system, an extremely powerful research tool was
  produced. This system was crucial in obtaining
  research grants from the US Air Force (USAF) at
  Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma City for the
  purpose of Ambient Air Monitoring, as well as
  provide validation for the parallel development
  of a Tunable Diode Laser Absorption Spectrometer
  (TDLAS). The Original Acquisition Cost (OAC) of
  all the items in the TD-GC/MS system is about
  125,000.

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