MODIFICATION
70 -- Radiological Source Tracking and Monitoring
- Notice Date
- 10/3/2005
- Notice Type
- Modification
- NAICS
- 484121
— General Freight Trucking, Long-Distance, Truckload
- Contracting Office
- Department of Energy, Oak Ridge National Laboratory - UT Battelle LLC (DOE Contractor), Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Bethel Valley Road P.O. Box 2008, Oak Ridge, TN, 37831-6192
- ZIP Code
- 37831-6192
- Solicitation Number
- ORNL-11-01-05-RFID
- Response Due
- 11/1/2005
- Archive Date
- 11/16/2005
- Point of Contact
- Tracy Warren, R&D Assistant, Phone 865-241-5989, Fax 865-576-5943, - Tracy Warren, R&D Assistant, Phone 865-241-5989, Fax 865-576-5943,
- E-Mail Address
-
warrenta@ornl.gov, warrenta@ornl.gov
- Description
- The Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is seeking to identify all responsible sources capable of providing RFID systems for tracking, locating, and identifying express shipments of medical isotopes. Firms that have the prerequisite background knowledge, experience, and capability to be able to successfully meet or exceed the requirements described herein are invited to participate in a two phase demonstration of their technology. This is not a request for bids, but an invitation to participate in a demonstration that is targeted to lead to the deployment of an operational system to track and monitor radiological sources in commerce. Vendors must provide full product line literature and available documentation of equipment and interfaces for their proposed products. Vendors must also provide product line samples as appropriate and requested. All expenses related to literature reproduction and dissemination; provision of product line samples, product line and services demonstrations; demonstration support; marketing; and appropriate in-service education related to the referenced two phase demonstration must be at no charge to the government. Multiple vendors will be utilized in this demonstration. ORNL desires to evaluate the use of RFID systems to monitor express air and truck shipments of medical radioisotopes. Vendors are being sought to provide a solution that will monitor the shipments while in transit using passive, active, or hybrid RFID tags or a combination thereof. ORNL intends to demonstrate RFID systems, typically consisting of a ?tag? and a ?reader? component, appropriate for the express air and truck shipping environment. Result of the demonstration will be published. USA Department of Transportation (DOT) Type A packages are used for shipping small quantities of medical radioisotopes. This packaging conforms to condition and limitations specified in 49 CRR 173.4 for radioactive materials. The Type A package is made up of a cardboard box (~15 in.x15 in.), a Styrofoam insert for impact and penetration protection, a lead pot for shielding and a vial containing the medical isotope. The Styrofoam insert may also contain dry ice. The tag portion of the system will be embedded internally in the Type A package, external to the lead pot. The reader portion of the system will be placed at multiple locations along the expected route of the shipment. Commonly used medical radioisotopes will be shipped from two suppliers in Boston, Mass. to ORNL in Oak Ridge, Tenn. using two commercial air express carriers. The demonstration will include two phases: a laboratory evaluation phase and a live express shipping environment phase. The laboratory phase will be scenario-specific to address procedures and protocols needed to conduct the live express shipping environment phase. In addition, the laboratory phase will include radiation exposure tests to demonstrate the tag?s ability to function properly in gamma and neutron radiation fields for the lifetime claimed by the tag?s manufacturer. Requirements: Interested parties should provide tags with omnidirectional read distances up to 50 feet at a frequency available worldwide. The reader must be able to recognize the tags when transported in metal trailers traveling at speeds up to 30 mph. The reader must be able to recognize tags in the presence of other tags. Readers will be needed to read tags at eight locations: one at each medical isotope supplier in Boston, Mass., one at each air express terminal at Logan International Airport in Boston, Mass, one at each air express terminal at McGhee Tyson Airport in Knoxville, Tenn., and two at ORNL in Oak Ridge, Tenn. Tags may be subjected to any and all weather conditions and normal shipping and handling conditions. The systems should have a lifespan of seven years without maintenance. The systems should have an application programming interface (API) providing programmatic access to tag data including, at a minimum, the tag ID and a timestamp of when it is seen by a reader. Parties interested in providing their equipment for test are requested to address any specification issues, provide product information and identify Internet Web sites containing relevant information. The POC for technical issues is Mr. Randy Walker, (865) 574-5522, e-mail walkerrm1@ornl.gov. An information meeting for prospective vendors will be held in Knoxville, Tenn. on Monday, October 24, 2005 at 8:00AM. Interested vendors should contact Ms. Tracy Warren, (865) 241-5989, e-mail warrenta@ornl.gov. A statement of qualifications, including references for past and present RFID technology deployments, and a catalog of commercially available equipment should be submitted before c.o.b. November 1, 2005 to Ms. Tracy Warren, 1 Bethel Valley Road, P.O. Box 2008, MS 6418, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6418. Electronic notifications of material being sent are welcome and should be sent to Ms. Tracy Warren, warrenta@ornl.gov. Responses should be in original copy and format with a signature and date.
- Place of Performance
- Address: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 1 Bethel Valley Road, Oak Ridge, TN
- Zip Code: 37831
- Country: USA
- Zip Code: 37831
- Record
- SN00908165-W 20051005/051003211735 (fbodaily.com)
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