SOLICITATION NOTICE
A -- Magnet System for Refrigerated Electron Beam Ion Trap
- Notice Date
- 2/2/2006
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 334516
— Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Smithsonian Institution, Office of the Chief Financial Officer, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Mail Stop 22, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138-1516
- ZIP Code
- 02138-1516
- Solicitation Number
- JFL020206A
- Response Due
- 2/17/2006
- Archive Date
- 3/4/2006
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) intends to award a Sole Source, Firm-Fixed Price (FFP) contract, under Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) part 13, Simplified Acquisition to P&T Physics & Technology, LLC, 129 Toiyabe Ct., Livermore, CA 94550 for a Refrigerated Super Conducting 3 Tesla magnet system. This magnet system will be used in a 40kV Refrigerated Electron Beam Ion Trap-Source (REBIT-S) for the performance of experiments with highly charged low emittance ion beams and for spectroscopy studies at SAO. The magnet system (the subject of this synopsis) includes a closed cycle refrigerated SC-magnet, SC-lead system, vacuum chamber, cold shields, vacuum parts and REBIT stand. The REBIT system is a compact, mobile non-liquid gas based, cryogenic REBIT including all the required electronic operating modules. The REBIT is based on a novel cryo-pump cooling scheme which couples efficiently the cold heads of the cryo-pumps to a super-conducting 3 Tesla magnet at 4K, the incorporated trap components at 4K and the cold shields at 70K. The REBIT is computer controlled with all the necessary electronic systems integrated. The base unit operates at variable electron beam energies between 2-40kV, where its modular design allows conveniently an upgrade to 250 kV. The base unit provides for the ionization and excitation of virtually any element in the periodic table up to ionization stages of about 80+ for in-situ x-ray spectroscopy studies. Provision for ion extraction to operate the REBIT as an ion beam source can be easily adapted. P&T, Physics and Technology LLC is the only supplier known to SAO that markets such a system. This cryogenic REBIT operates reliably as demonstrated by the REBIT sold to the University of Stockholm in Sweden. SAO knows of no other system matching these specifications that is commercially available. The North American Industry Classification System Code (NAICS) is 334516. The small business size standard is 500. Contractors interested in this requirement should submit a complete technical package that provides clear and convincing evidence that they can meet SAO?s requirement. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals. However, SAO will consider all responses received by the publication due date of this notice. A determination by SAO whether or not to compete this acquisition based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of SAO. Responses must be received on or before February 17, 2006. Send to: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, ATTN: Joseph Lendall M/S 22, 60 Garden St., Cambridge, MA 02138-1516, faxed to 617-496-7957 or e-mail to jlendall@cfa.harvard.edu.
- Record
- SN00979379-W 20060204/060202213041 (fbodaily.com)
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