MODIFICATION
C -- Engineering Design of PHENIX VTX Detector
- Notice Date
- 10/18/2006
- Notice Type
- Modification
- NAICS
- 541330
— Engineering Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Energy, Brookhaven National Laboratory (DOE Contractor), Brookhaven, PO Box 5000 Bldg. No. 355, Upton, NY, 11973
- ZIP Code
- 11973
- Solicitation Number
- 114359
- Response Due
- 11/13/2006
- Archive Date
- 11/28/2006
- Description
- The following modification is issued to this announcement: The location of the work described herein will be performed at the contractor's office. The engineer supervising the work is located at Los Alamos national Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico. Brookhaven Science Associates is seeking a firm to provide system engineering design services for the PHENIX VTX Project. The project scope is as follows: design and fabricate the mechanical support structure and cooling system of the Silicon Vertex Detector (VTX) for the PHENIX Experiment at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider. The VTX is a compact device, approximately cylindrical in shape with an outer radius of 20 cm and a length of 80 cm. The VTX has three main components, a central barrel containing four layers of silicon sensors (both silicon strips and pixels) with approximately 4.3 million sensor channels and associated electronics plus two end caps with four strip layers each and approximately 1.3 million sensor channels and associated electronics. This project covers engineering services for only the central barrel. The frames supporting the VTX sensors and electronics must be of high stiffness but low mass and low density, composed primarily of carbon composite materials to allow a maximum 100 micron deflection under gravity of any component of the VTX mechanical system. The VTX must have an associated cooling system that is capable of removing up to 4000 Watts of heat from the device. The operating temperature of the device will be 0o Celsius. Together the mechanical and cooling system must add no more than 3.2% of a radiation length to the total average thickness of the detector. The firm performing this job must have experience working with large channel count, silicon sensor detector systems for particle physics and space-based experiments. They must have a demonstrated track-record of design of mechanical support, cooling and alignment systems with micron-level precision and multi-project experience designing and prototyping carbon composite-based low mass mechanical support systems. The firm must also have significant experience working on advanced technology mechanical engineering projects that would be obtained from past experience working with federal agencies such as the US Department of Energy and NASA. This project will require weekly interaction and close coordination with engineers at Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, NM. The required services to be provided are: engineering and design, and manufacturing liaison. All work and deliverables shall be stamped and sealed by Registered Professionals. It is expected that the resultant work may include services in the following areas: Title I Services: Services in this category may include preliminary research and development. Title II Services: Services in this category may include definitive design of all required preliminary and final working drawings, specifications, detailed cost estimates, and fabrication schedules. Title III Services: Services in this category may include review and approval of tooling, fabrication methods and materials, and preparation of record drawings (reproducible) showing fabrication work as actually accomplished (as-built drawings). Incidental services are: AutoCAD drafting, word processing, cost estimating, etc. may be required in the performance of this requirement. Project Location: Project supervision from Los Alamos, New Mexico. LICENSING: Where applicable, the listed disciplines shall be licensed/registered to practice in the state in which the company is located. Selection/Evaluation/Award Process: Selection Process: Selection and award will be completed in three phases as follows: Phase I: a) interested firms shall submit their qualifications to perform the services noted above. b) An evaluation panel will evaluate each company?s qualifications in terms of the evaluation criteria noted above. Based upon their evaluations the panel will select qualified firms for interviews. Phase II: a) An interview will be conducted with the firms selected in Phase I. During the interview the firms will present their qualifications. Presentations shall address each of the evaluation criteria. b) based upon the information obtained during the interview process, the evaluation panel will provide to the Procurement Official a final selection list which states in order of preference the firms considered most highly qualified to perform the work. Phase III: a) The Procurement Official will issue a Request For Proposal to the highest ranked firm. b) The firm shall prepare and submit a proposal. The proposal shall include unit pricing for the stated services as well as a subcontracting plan if applicable. c) Brookhaven Science Associates and the firm shall attempt to negotiate a mutually satisfactory contract. If a contract cannot be negotiated, the Procurement Official shall initiate negotiations with the next firm on the final selection list. This procedure shall be continued until a mutually satisfactory contract has been negotiated. EVALUATION CRITERIA: Evaluation and selection of the firm will be based on the following evaluation criteria, listed in descending order of importance: 1) Specialized experience with technical competence in the type of work required, including where appropriate experience in systems engineering, design, analysis, fabrication and testing. 2) Demonstrated professional qualifications, professional registration, technical expertise, and experience of the firm, including all principles and key staff of the firm, its consultants and project personnel with projects (both research and development as well as engineering design) pertaining to the PHENIX VTX project. Emphasis will focus on familiarity with and project experience in applying principles of mechanical and thermal analysis. 3) Demonstrated project management experience and expertise with designing, providing fabrication liaison, and testing of component and global support structures within detectors. 4) Demonstrated ability in systems engineering of Detector Systems. 5) Specific past performance on previous system engineering work performed for federal agencies based on the quality of the firm?s work and the firm?s history of meeting performance schedules and budgets. Firms that fully meet the requirements described in this announcement are invited to submit a Letter of Interest and completed Standard Form 330, Part 1 for each of the required disciplines, Standard Form 330, part 2 for the A/E team as a whole, and an organization chart of the team. At a minimum the organization chart shall include the following information for each discipline: technical expertise, firm name, names of key personnel. Submission of any additional supporting material is encouraged, but only to the extent that it substantiates the information stated on the Standard Form 330. DUE DATE/TIME: Firms shall submit their qualifications so as to insure they are delivered by 4:00 p.m. local time, Nov. 13, 2006. DELIVERY: Submissions shall be mailed or delivered to Brookhaven National Laboratory, Attn: JoAnna Black, Procurement Supervisor, Bldg 355, Upton, Long Island, New York 11973. E-mail submissions are also acceptable and may be submitted to the attention of JoAnna Black, Procurement Supervisor, at jblack@bnl.gov. The period of performance for the resulting contract will be from the date of award for a total of three years (estimated). The date of award is estimated to be on or after Jan. 1, 2007. The date of award is tentative and may change. Only one contract will be made from this announcement. Multiple awards will not be made.
- Place of Performance
- Address: The selected firm's office for, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York
- Zip Code: 11973
- Country: UNITED STATES
- Zip Code: 11973
- Record
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