SOLICITATION NOTICE
66 -- NIST ATOMIC CLOCK: Measurement Hardware for Backup Time Scale System
- Notice Date
- 4/23/2004
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 334519
— Other Measuring and Controlling Device Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Mountain Administrative Support Center, 325 Broadway - MC3, Boulder, CO, 80305-3328
- ZIP Code
- 80305-3328
- Solicitation Number
- NB847400082KR
- Response Due
- 5/14/2004
- Archive Date
- 5/29/2004
- Point of Contact
- Kelly Rima, Purchasing Agent, Phone 303-497-3779, Fax 303-497-3163, - David Groton, Supervisory Purchasing Agent, Phone (303) 497-3107, Fax (303) 497-3163,
- E-Mail Address
-
Kelly.Rima@noaa.gov, David.S.Groton@noaa.gov
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; quotes are being requested and a separated solicitation will not be issued. This requirement is set aside for small business (no more than 500 employees). **** The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Time and Frequency Division, has a requirement for measurement hardware to be used in the construction of a backup time scale system. The primary system is currently located at the NIST laboratories in Boulder, CO. The backup system in Fort Collins must provide time and frequency reference for all NIST services if the clock ensemble at the NIST Boulder site becomes inoperable or unavailable for any reason. **** In order to support the current NIST services, the system in Fort Collins must provide time signals at 1 (one) pulse per second and 1 (one) MHz that can be directly traced to the NIST clock in Boulder under normal conditions, and to international time standards should the clock ensemble in Boulder fail or become unavailable. The accuracy required must be no worse than 10 ns, but the design is also driven by the need for reliability, robustness and the capability for remote supervision and maintenance. **** The system will be implemented using a number of commercial cesium standards. This will reduce the possibility that the operation will be interrupted by the failure of a single clock. The time delivered to the NIST services will be the weighted average of the times of these devices as modified by offsets in time and frequency determined by comparing the Fort Collins ensemble output with the time of the primary clock ensemble in Boulder using common-view GPS or to another standard time reference if the data from Boulder are not available for an extended period of time. **** THIS PROCUREMENT is for the system that will measure the time differences between the atomic clocks in the ensemble and computes this weighted average. In addition, this system will provide diagnostic reports and status messages to a remote operations facility that will be located in Boulder. This will support a full integration of the clocks in Fort Collins with the existing ensemble in Boulder, and will also support a ?hold-over? mode, in which the Fort Collins system runs without any monitoring from Boulder if the link to Boulder is broken or if the ensemble time in Boulder becomes unavailable for any reason. **** REQUIREMENT No. 1: The system shall make time difference measurements between 1 (one) clock which is designated as the reference clock for the system, and up to 7 (seven) other clocks. The measurements shall be made using a dual mixer type system which accepts inputs at the standard frequency of 5 (five) MHz. The ability to make measurements at 10MHz is desirable, if the overall noise performance of the hardware is not compromised by this capability. A system that can make measurements only a 1 (one) pps is not acceptable because such a system cannot support the requirement outlined in requirement no. 3, below. **** REQUIREMENT No. 2: The system shall be composed of a base system (chassis, power supply, network interface, etc.) and a sufficient number of measurement modules to support the required number of clocks outlined above. The base system shall be capable of handling up to 28 clocks with the purchase of additional measurement modules. **** REQUIREMENT No. 3: The noise of a single time-difference measurement (evaluated by connecting the same clock to two independent channels) SHALL BE NO GREATER THAN 0.6 ps RMS, AND THE NOISE SHALL BE CHARACTERIZED AS WHITE PHASE NOISE OUT TO AN AVERAGING TIME OF AT LEAST 2000 SECONDS. This is a fundamental requirement of the system. It is required to support the overall performance of the system. **** REQUIREMENT No. 4: The system shall support communication via A TCP/IP INTERFACE to support oversight and management from Boulder. The capability to manage the system remotely is very important, since the system will be managed from Boulder under normal circumstances. This will be done to ensure that the time computed by the ensemble in Fort Collins tracks the time of the official primary ensemble in Boulder as closely as possible. In addition, it is very desirable to use a standard, widely available interface protocol to communicate with the system. This will make it much easier to support the system in the future. Systems that depend on specific proprietary hardware for this communications link are much less desirable, since almost all special-purpose hardware designs become obsolete and unavailable in a time that is very short relative to the projected lifetime of this system of 10-20 years. The current system in Boulder is over 24 years old. **** REQUIREMENT No. 5: The system shall be implemented in duplicate hardware so that there is no single point of failure. The design is to include two completely independent measurement systems with no common hardware. **** REQUIREMENT No. 6: The system proposed by the supplier must be commercial off-the-shelf and available for delivery within 90 days after receipt of the order so that the system can be operational no later than September 30, 2004. At least one other operating unit must have already been delivered, with customer contact information for that delivered unit included in the response to this RFQ. **** NAICS Code: 334519. Business Size Standard: 500 employees. **** Quotes will be evaluated upon technical merit and price. Technical merit will be evaluated for conformance with Requirements 1 ? 6 as set forth above per the standards of FAR Part 13.1. **** The following provisions and clauses shall apply to this solicitation: FAR 52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors ? Commercial, applies to this acquisition and there is no addenda to this provision; FAR 52.212-2, Evaluation ? Commercial Items ? The government will award a fixed price purchase order resulting from this solicitation to the responsible offeror whose offer will represent the best value to the government, price and other factors considered; FAR 52.212-3, Offeror Representations and Certifications ? Commercial Items ? Offerors must include a completed copy of Offeror Representations and Certifications along with the offer; FAR 52.212-4, Contract Terms and Conditions ? Commercial Items, applies to this acquisition and there is no addenda to this provision; FAR 52.212-5, Contract Terms and Conditions Required To Implement Statutes or Executive Orders ? Commercial Items, applies to this acquisition. The following additional FAR clauses are applicable to this acquisition: 52.222-21 Prohibition of Segregated Facilities; 52.222-26 Equal Opportunity; 52.222-35 Affirmative Action for Disabled Veterans and Veterans of the Vietnam Era; 52.222-36 Affirmative Action for Workers with Disabilities; 52.222-37 Employment Reports on Disabled Veterans and Veterans of the Vietnam Era; 52.225-3 Buy American Act?Supplies. **** Terms and conditions in full text, including FAR 52.212-3 (Representations and Certifications) can accessed at http://www.arnet.gov/far. Agency level protest procedures can be accessed at http://www.doc.gov/oam/conops/#reference. *** Responses to this combined solicitation/notice are due no later than May 14, 2004 and must fully respond to all requirements set forth in this RFQ. The anticipated award date is May 18, 2004. Responses may be mailed, faxed or electronically (preferred) submitted to the attention of: Ms. Kelly Rima, Purchasing Agent, at: 325 Broadway, MC3, Boulder, CO 80305; 303-497-3163; or Kelly.Rima@noaa.gov. Inquiries regarding this RFQ must be faxed or emailed to Ms. Rima. No verbal requests, please.
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