SOURCES SOUGHT
B -- Machine Shop Engineering and Fabrication of High Precision Components/Assemblies for Measurement Instruments and Scientific Apparatus
- Notice Date
- 4/2/2007
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541330
— Engineering Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Acquisition Management Division, 100 Bureau Drive, Building 301, Room B129, Mail Stop 1640, Gaithersburg, MD, 20899-1640, UNITED STATES
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- Reference-Number-NB8990000-7-10000
- Response Due
- 4/13/2007
- Archive Date
- 4/14/2007
- Description
- This is a request for information/sources sought notice(RFI) to assist the National Institute of Standards and Technology(NIST) for the purpose of conducting Market Research only. At this time, no solicitation is currently available, a procurement is not planned and unsolicited proposals in responses to this RFI will not be accepted. The NIST, Gaithersburg, Maryland is conducting market research to determine the extent to which businesses/organizations are capable of providing the herein described machine shop services. The machine shop services are used to engineer and fabricate high precision components and assemblies for use in many instances one-of-a-kind measurement instruments devised by NIST scientists and engineers. These services support the creation of unique measurement instruments and scientific apparatus needed by researchers in the NIST's Measurement and Standards Laboratories. The collective NAICS codes for which a contractor may respond to this RFI are listed as follows. The breath of the engineering and fabrications service includes: mechanical engineering, and planning (541330), fabricating metal components using automated and conventional type machining processes that perform milling, drilling, boring, turning, grinding and threading type machining operations with varying degrees of work volume capacities and machining tolerance capabilities that range to +/- .0005 inch or .01 MM. (332710 332721), performing sheet metal work manufacturing and welding services (333992, 332322), fabricating components made of ceramics, crystals, optical glass, plastics, semiconductors or other unique materials that are used as optical elements or precision components in measurement instruments. (811219), fabricating custom glass components to fit exact measurements in a wide range of cryogenic containers, transfer lines, and glass components for various experiments and instruments (32721, 327212, 327215). Any organization responding to this RFI notice shall have the capabilities to provide the services of all of the above listed NAICS codes. NIST is especially interested in receiving input from small businesses who can meet the above described capabilities. HOW TO RESPOND TO THE SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE- Potential sources that possess capabilities to perform the aforementioned machine shop services are encouraged to respond to this notice and provide the following information: 1) Detailed narrative describing the company/organization?s current capabilities that are directly relevant to the aforementioned work; 2) Description of each similar project completed by your company/organization 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 the project? (c) contract type used on the project (e.g., firm-fixed price, labor-hour, time-and-materials, cost plus-fixed fee, cost-plus-award-fee and cost plus-incentives-fee, etc); (d) indication of how long the project took to complete from start to finish; and (e) name, address, point of contact and phone number of the customer organization for which the work was done. 3) Current socio-economic status of your company as it relates to North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) codes listed above. 4) Indication of whether your company currently has an active registration in the Central Contractor?s Registration at www.ccr.gov. Your submission must be received in this office by 2:00 PM EST on Friday, April 13, 2007 by post office mail or email at the following address: NIST; Attn: Mario Checchia; Contract Specialist, 100 Bureau Drive, Mail Stop 1640, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-1640; Email: Mario.Checchia@nist.gov . The capability statements shall be not more than twenty (20) pages on 8.5? x 11? paper, with 1? margins and a 12 point, commonly used font such as, Courier New or Times Roman in length. The Government reserves the right to contact any of the submitters to attain further market research. This contact may be in the form of direct Government/Submitter meeting(s). THIS REQUEST FOR INFORMATION/SOURCES SOUGHT ANNOUNCEMENT IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOPOSALS AND THE GOVERNMENT IS NOT COMMITTED TO AWARD A CONTRACT PURSUANT TO THIS ANNOUNCEMENT. RESPONSES SHALL NOT INCLUDE COST OR PRICING INFORMATION. PLEASE DIRECT ANY QUESTIONS REGARDING THIS RFI/ SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE BY EMAIL TO mario.checchia@nist.gov BY CLOSE OF BUSINESS APRIL 6, 2007.
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