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FBO DAILY ISSUE OF JULY 11, 2004 FBO #0958
SOLICITATION NOTICE

66 -- Organic Transistor Probing System

Notice Date

7/9/2004
 

Notice Type

Solicitation Notice
 

NAICS

334516 — Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing
 

Contracting Office

Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Acquisition and Logistics Division, 100 Bureau Drive, Building 301, Room B129, Mail Stop 3571, Gaithersburg, MD, 20899-3571
 

ZIP Code

20899-3571
 

Solicitation Number

Reference-Number-04-854-2160
 

Response Due

7/22/2004
 

Archive Date

8/6/2004
 

Point of Contact

Joan Smith, Contract Specialist, Phone (301)975-6458, Fax (301)975-8884, - Michael Szwed, Supervisory Contract Specialist, Phone 301-975-6330, Fax 301-975-8884,
 

E-Mail Address

Joan.Smith@nist.gov, Michael.Szwed@nist.gov
 

Description

THIS IS A COMBINED SYNOPSIS/SOLICITATION FOR COMMERCIAL ITEMS PREPARED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE FORMAT IN FAR SUBPART 12.6-STREAMLINED PROCEDURES FOR EVALUATION AND SOLICITATION FOR COMMERCIAL ITEMS-AS SUPPLEMENTED WITH ADDITIONAL INFORMATION INCLUDED IN THIS NOTICE. THIS ANNOUNCEMENT CONSTITUTES THE ONLY SOLICITATION; QUOTATIONS ARE BEING REQUESTED, AND A WRITTEN SOLICITATION DOCUMENT WILL NOT BE ISSUED. *** This solicitation is a Request for Quotation (RFQ). The solicitation document and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 01-19. *** The associated North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) code for this procurement is 334516. *** The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has a requirement for an Organic Transistor Probing System. All interested parties are invited to submit a quote for the following line items: LINE ITEM 0001: ?The Supply and Installation of an Organic Transistor Probing System, in accordance with the following specifications: A. Background - The Organic Transistor Probing System for electrical device characterization will be used primarily for current-voltage (IV) and capacitance-voltage (CV) testing. The goal is to test transistors made from organic materials. Current responses from organic materials are extremely small requiring a very well-shielded environment from stray electrical fields. Atmosphere control is required because the materials are very susceptible to oxidation and moisture. Full automation is required because the unit will be put into a sealed glove box at a future date. Thermal control of the sample is required without causing significant noise to measurement. The station is required to be compatible with existing Cascade and RF probes. An additional four probes with points shall be included. B. Description - Prober shall have a 8? x 8? manual stage with manual x, y, and theta controls . 1) Chuck shall rotate +/- 7 degrees 2) Chuck shall be 8? diameter. 3) Prober shall be supplied with large area bridge mount that moves the microscope in a 6? y by 8? X format vertical manual lift. 4) Microscope shall 40X Microscope with remote Focus and digital Zoom. No eyepieces are required because it will be used in a glovebox. It needs to be provided with 5X and 10X A Zoom objectives. 5) Chuck shall be thermal unit capable of a ?55 C range to 200 C. Chuck shall be round. Plating shall be gold plated. Flatness: 2 mills. Residual capacitance: Chuck to Shield <2 Pico farads. Chuck shall have 3 vacuum zones of increasing size to handle 4?, 6? and 8? wafers. Isolation from chuck to shield shall be greater than 1 Teraohm at 500 volts DC at 25C. Unit shall have Auxiliary thermally isolation chucks. Each Auxiliary chuck shall have independent vacuum control. Auxiliary chucks shall be capable of holding contact substrates and calibration substrates while an 8? wafer is on main thermal chuck. 6) With Microchamber installed, thermal system on, and ramping between -57 and 200 C, probe leakage with one probe on top of a device and the other terminal connected to the chuck, probe + chuck leakage shall not exceed 25 femptoamps on medium integration. Chuck residual capacitance shall be less than 2 pf and a capacitance variation shall be under 5 ff. 7) System is optimized for fast settling times and low current measurement capability needed to detect failure mechanisms on organic transistors. 8) All controls to move stage and positioners shall be located outside of probing enclosure. The chamber must be designed so the operator?s body electric field does not effect the measurement. Measurement repeatability is key to the NIST project. 9) Chuck shall be housed in a Faraday cage that will provide a dark (light free), EMI shielded, controlled environment box. A nitrogen or dry compressed air inlet shall be supplied to rear of the probe chamber. Prober shall be supplied with flowmeter. 10) Prober shall be supplied with 2 left and 2 right 100 TPI vacuum based positioners. Each positioner must have a dual triax adapter that connects miniature triax to ssmc cables. The ssmc cable must exit in probing environment while triax connectors must mount outside top hat or Microchamber to maintain signal integrity. 11) Prober shall be supplied with 4 Cascade DCP-150R probes or equivalent. These probes have an effective capacitance of approximately 46 ff or better in the measurement chamber. This is required to ensure fast settling times. The probe is also quasi Kelvin with dual 50 ohm ssmc connections. This helps the system achieve high accuracy capacitance measurements when used with frequency based test equipment and allows the user to null out cable resistance. The tips are replaceable. 10 replaceable probes with 5 micron tips shall be supplied. Probe leakage shall be +/- 10 fa from ?55 to 200 C. Breakdown voltage shall be greater than 500 volts. Prober shall be supplied with a kit to allow connection of all four probes to triax manifold. This requires 4 ultra low noise low triboelectric cables with miniature triax to standard triax need to be used. Triax Manifold shall have at least 4 bnc connectors for functional work, minimum of 8 triax connectors that can accept 4 quadrax connections and a vacuum manifold that supports at least 5 vacuum based positioners. Cables need to be supplied for all connections between 4284 for one and 2 meter connection options in 4 wire mode. All coaxial cabling will be 50ohms. Prober needs to be supplied with 2 mounting brackets for the Keithley Positioner mounted Pre amps along with short cables so low current measurements can be made. Prober shall be capable of using customer owned positioners which are Cascade Part Number DCM208VL, DCM208VR with Dual Triax Adapter 114-818 and DCP HTR which all connect together. A probe to probe short strap for connecting DCP probes together shall be supplied as specified in the application notes for a Agilent 4294 for high accuracy capacitance measurements. Also, an impedance standard substrate shall be supplied to Calibrate at the probe tips capacitance meters. 12) Prober shall have a 360 degree platen capable of accepting 4 RF positioners or 8 DC positioners with dual triax adapters. Platen shall have a 2 mill deflection or less for a 10 lb lateral or vertical force. 13) Z Lift Range of Platen shall be < 0.20 inches, reproducible to within 3 microns. 14) Prober shall have a control to raise platen. The control shall be capable of accepting a micrometer. 15) Thermal Loop for chuck shall be integrated with cable management system. 16) Dust Cover shall be supplied 17) Prober shall be compatible with NIST owned Cascade RF probes. The specifications for these future positioners are as follows: Bolt down sliding positioners shall be included. This is required on one positioner. Positioners shall have micrometers on x, y, z axis along with micrometer planarization control. Each Positioner must also have holes to mount bias T?s or brackets to hold noise measurement/load pull system. Positioners must have cable clamps to hold rf cables. Each positioner must have a mount to hold 1 hole, 2 hole, 3 hole mount and have holes in the correction location to mount a 2 hole positioner on center. Positioners shall have a minimum travel of .5? travel in X and Y locations and .46?z. Resolution shall be 25 mils per turn or finer. Planarization shall be +/- 5 degrees with micrometer on each arm. 18) Prober shall have safety interlock. The interlock would prevent the test instrument from sending out a high voltage if access door to probing chamber is opened. 19) Prober shall be supplied with 21? flat panel display color video monitor. It must accept video from the A zoom microscope. 20) Prober shall be supplied with a dull soft gold contact substrate for probe planarization adjustment. 21) Allen Wrench set shall be supplied for all critical Allen screws. 22) Manuals shall be supplied for performing RF measurements with prober. 23) Prober shall be capable of accepting microchambered or faraday cage probe card holder. Unit does not have to be supplied but should be catalog item. 24) Warranty: 1-year parts and labor. 25) Prober installation shall be supplied DELIVERY SHALL BE FOB DESTINATION. Delivery and installation is desired by October 1, 2004 and required by January 1, 2005. *** The Contractor shall pack and mark the shipment in conformance with carrier requirements, deliver the shipment in good order and condition to the point of delivery specified in the purchase order, be responsible for loss of and/or damage to the goods occurring before receipt and acceptance of the shipment by the consignee at the delivery point specified in the purchase order; and pay all charges to the specified point of delivery. *** Award shall be made to the offeror whose quote offers the best value to the Government, technical, price, and other factors considered. The Government will evaluate information based on the following evaluation criteria: 1) Technical Capability factor "Meeting or Exceeding the Requirement," 2) Past Performance, and 3) Price. Technical and Past Performance, when combined, are more important than price. *** Evaluation of Technical Capability shall be based on the information provided in the quotation. Offerors shall include the make and model of the product, manufacturer sales literature or other product literature that clearly documents that the offered product meets or exceeds the specifications stated above. Evaluation of Past Performance shall be based on the references provided in accordance with FAR 52.212-1(b)(10) and/or information provided by NIST and its affiliates. Offerors shall provide a list of at least THREE (3) REFERENCES to whom the same or similar products have been sold. The list of references shall include, at a minimum: The name of the reference contact person and the company or organization; the telephone number of the reference contact person; the contract or grant number; the amount of the contract and the address and the telephone number of the Contracting Officer if applicable; and the date of delivery or the date services were completed. Past Performance shall be evaluated to determine the overall quality of the product and service provided by the Contractor. Offerors with no relevant past performance shall not be evaluated favorably or unfavorably. *** The following provisions and clauses apply to this acquisition: PROVISIONS: 52.212-1 Instructions to Offerors-Commercial Items. CLAUSES: 52.212-4 Contract Terms and Conditions?Commercial Items; 52.212-5 Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statutes or Executive Orders?Commercial Items including subparagraphs: (1) 52.203-6 Restrictions on Subcontractor Sales to the Government with Alternate I; (2) 52.210-4 Notice of Price Evaluation Preference for HUBZone Small Business Concerns; (3) 52.219-8 Utilization of Small Business Concerns; (4) 52.219-23 Notice of Price Evaluation Adjustment for Small Disadvantaged Business Concerns-Alternate I; (5) 52,222-3 Convict Labor; (6) 52.222-19 Child Labor ? Cooperation with Authorities and Remedies; (7) 52.222-21, Prohibition of Segregated Facilities; (8) 52.222-26, Equal Opportunity; (9) 52.222-35 Equal Opportunity for Special Disabled Veterans, Veterans, of the Vietnam Era, and Other Eligible Veterans; (10) 52.222-36, Affirmative Action for Workers with Disabilities; (11) 52.222-37 Employment Reports on Special Disabled Veterans, Veterans of the Vietnam Era, and other Eligible Veterans; (12) 52.225-5 ? Trade Agreements; (13) 52.225-13 Restriction on Certain Foreign Purchases (E.O. 12722, 12724, 13059, 13067, 13121, and 13129; (14) 52-225-15 Sanctioned European Union Country End Products; (15) 52.232 33, Payment by Electronic Funds Transfer ? Central Contractor Registration; and (16) Department of Commerce Agency-Level Protest Procedures Level above the Contracting Officer is also incorporated. It can be downloaded at www.nist.gov/admin/od/contract/agency.htm. *** All interested parties should submit quotes to include the following: 1) Two copies of a quotation which addresses the line item; 2) Two copies of the technical description and/or product literature; 3) Description of commercial warranty; 4) Two (2) copies of the most recent published price list(s); and 5) A completed copy of the provision at 52.212-3, Offeror Representations and Certifications-Commercial Items which may be downloaded at www.arnet.gov/far. *** All quotes should be sent to the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Acquisition and Logistics Division, Attn: Joan Smith, Building 301, Room B129, 100 Bureau Drive, Stop 3571, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-3571. *** Submission must be received by 3:00 p.m. local time on July 22, 2004. FAX & E-MAIL QUOTES SHALL NOT BE ACCEPTED.
 

Place of Performance

Address: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland

Zip Code: 20899

Country: US
 

Record

SN00617858-W 20040711/040709211743 (fbodaily.com)
 

Source

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