SOLICITATION NOTICE
66 -- AMT XR-100 CCD Bottom Mount Camera System
- Notice Date
- 12/10/2002
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, Research Contracts Br., 6120 Executive Blvd. EPS Suite 600, Rockville, MD, 20852
- ZIP Code
- 20852
- Solicitation Number
- RFQ-NCI-20172-NQ
- Response Due
- 12/17/2002
- Archive Date
- 1/1/2003
- Point of Contact
- Cynthia Brown, Purchasing Agent, Phone (301) 496-8608, Fax (301) 402-4513, - Caren Rasmussen, Lead Contract Specialist, Phone (301) 402-4509, Fax (301) 402-4513,
- E-Mail Address
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cb106x@nih.gov, cr214i@nih.gov
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- The National Cancer Institute(NCI) on behalf of the National Institutes of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), Division of Intramural Research (DIR), Laboratory of Neurobiology (LM) plans to procure a AMT XR-100 CCD Bottom Mount Camera system from Advanced Microscopy Techniques Corporation (AMT), 3 Electronics Avenue, Danvers, MA 01923. The NINDS Electron Microscope (EM) Facility is an Institute-wide facility providing scientists in the DIR with access to state-of-the-art electron mecoroscope equipment. There are currently two JEOL transmission electron microscopes being used by approximately twenty-five(25) scientists. The Facility has been generating about 10,000 micrographs a year. Due to the personnel changes, the EM Facility no longer has a photography technician. The proposed CCD digital camera would collect images in digital format, therefore, bypassing the conventional darkroom developing, printing and constant wait time. The laboratory estimates that more than 90% of the users' photography needs will be met by procurement of a digital camera. Also, the CCD Camera will make it possible for projects like serial reconstruction and tomography possible. MINIMUM Specifications: collection of multiple images in the electron microscope; b) images collected can be directly saved at full resolution and gray scale in TIFF format directly legible in Photoshop running on an Apple Computer; c) information content of images shall be at least 2600x2600 pixels at 16 bits (>7 MB image); d) 61x61 mm phosphor detector with a field view of at least 70% the size of that with 3-1.4" film; 3) images will be magnified no more than 2X onto the surface of the phosphor which collects the image. The above specifications are necessary to optimize the collection of EM images over the most commonly used magnification range of the microscope. The camera lies completely outside the vacuum system. The camera has a fast scan mode required to focus quickly on the specimen before images are collected. The camera chip is air cooled, therefore no water connections are necessary. Advanced Microsocpy Techniques corporation is the only known source to the NINDS researchers that can provide the aforementioned instrument. This is not a request for competitive quotation. However, if any interested party believes it can meet the above requirements, it may submit a statement of capabilities. The capability statment and any other furnished information must be in writing and must contain material in sufficient detail to allow NINDS to determine if the party can fuly meet the requirements. Capability statements must be received in the contracting office by 1:30 PM EST (Local Washington DC time) on December 17, 2002. This action is pursutant to 41 USC 253(1) and under the authority of FAR 6.302-1. If you have any questions, please contact Cynthia Brown, Purchaisng Agent (301) 402-4509. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed requirement based on responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information received shall be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. No collect calls will be accepted. The NAICS Code: 333315 and the business size standard is 500 employees. This is a total small business set-aside. See numbered note 1.
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- Record
- SN00220942-F 20021212/021211052720 (fbodaily.com)
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