SOURCES SOUGHT
D -- Potential Sources Sought for Software Development for NIST's Measurement Assurance Program
- Notice Date
- 4/22/2005
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541511
— Custom Computer Programming Services
- 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-05-821-Sources-Sought-1
- Response Due
- 5/6/2005
- Archive Date
- 5/7/2005
- Point of Contact
- Joseph Widdup, Contract Specialist, Phone (301) 975-6324, Fax (301) 975-8884,
- E-Mail Address
-
joseph.widdup@nist.gov
- Description
- This is a sources sought notice to assist NIST in completing market research for a procurement that will be initiated in the near future. No solicitation is currently available, and no unsolicited proposals will be entertained as a result of this sources sought notice. The Engineering Metrology Group (EMG) in the Precision Engineering Division (PED) of the Manufacturing and Engineering Laboratory (MEL) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, Maryland is the primary calibration laboratory for the United States. As part of this effort, EMG has developed specialized software to implement its Measurement Assurance Program (MAP). This software is an integrated set of programs that manages the complete calibration cycle, including customer information, data taking and analysis, report writing, statistical process control, and management of the master gauge system. Currently there are versions for gauge blocks, thread wires, angle blocks and sphere diameter. All of these will be merged into a single lab system. There are also auxiliary programs to interface a number of instruments into this system as well as those of the M48 CMM and dilatometer. The current MAP system is in Hewlett Packard BASIC, and has been used and occasionally modified for over 20 years. These changes need to be integrated into a single system, and to ensure future changes can be made and supported, EMG has decided to rewrite all of its systems in Visual Basic. Because of some limitations in our instrument interfaces the software system National Instruments LabView software will be used for communicating to instruments. In order to proceed to determine the appropriate acquisition strategy to accomplish the above, NIST seeks information on potential sources with experience and current expertise in some the following areas: HP Basic Visual Basic SQL National Instruments LabView software Statistical Process Control IF YOUR COMPANY HAS RECENT (IN THE PAST THREE YEARS) EXPERIENCE FOR PROJECTS THAT ARE SIMILAR IN SCOPE TO WHAT MAY BE REQUIRED TO IMPLEMENT THE NEW MAP SYSTEM, THEN PLEASE PROVIDE THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION BY EMAIL TO JOSEPH.WIDDUP@NIST.GOV NO LATER THAN MAY 6, 2005: 1. Description of each similar project completed by your company as a prime Contractor or as a significant subcontractor within the past three (3) years, including as much of the following information as possible: (a) dollar amount of the contract; (b) brief description of the technical requirements of that project; (c) contract type used on that project (e.g., firm-fixed-price, labor-hour, time-and-materials, cost-plus-fixed-fee, cost-plus-award-fee, cost-plus-incentive-fee, etc.); (d) indication of how long the project took to complete from start to finish; (e) how many Contractor and, if applicable, subcontractor full time equivalents were required to complete the job; and (f) name, address, point of contact and phone number of customer organization for which the work was done. 2. Current socioeconomic status of your company as it relates to NAICS 541511, Custom Computer Programming Services (see NAICS table at http://www.sba.gov/size/sizetable2002.html); also, whether your company is currently certified as an 8(a) company or a service-disabled veteran-owned company. 3. Indication of whether your company currently has its own GSA Federal Supply Schedule contract and whether your company currently can provide IT developmental services under that contract (include the contract number for that contract); 4. Indication of whether your company has its own Government-wide Acquisition Contract (GWAC) and whether your company can provide IT developmental services under that contract (include the contract number for that contract); 5. Indication of whether your company currently has an active registration in the Central Contractor Registration at www.ccr.gov. PLEASE DIRECT ALL QUESTIONS REGARDING THIS SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE BY EMAIL TO JOSEPH.WIDDUP@NIST.GOV NOTE: THIS NOTICE WAS NOT POSTED TO WWW.FEDBIZOPPS.GOV ON THE DATE INDICATED IN THE NOTICE ITSELF (22-APR-2005); HOWEVER, IT DID APPEAR IN THE FEDBIZOPPS FTP FEED ON THIS DATE. PLEASE CONTACT fbo.support@gsa.gov REGARDING THIS ISSUE.
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- Record
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