Got word today my corporation wants to put out an RFP for new ATP readers across our 10 plants and try to secure better pricing on the swabs. Current use for all is Hygiena EnsureTouch machines running primarily UltraSnap swabs with limited SuperSnaps used at a couple plants. Part of the RFP will be online result monitoring with corporate level access to the different plants for downloading and monitoring of the plant activities.
Options seem limited as I start my research into this: Hygiena obviously, 3M merged with NeoGen, and possibly EcoLab seems worthy of inviting. We want to stick with US based companies to speed up shipping of units for repairs and keeping freight costs down on the swabs (we're averaging about 70,000 swabs a year from my trended data across the US). Are there any other players I should include?
Also, if you have horror stories I should hear about from these brands, feel free to share.