SOURCES SOUGHT
66 -- Transmission Electron Microscope
- Notice Date
- 5/21/2007
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 339111
— Laboratory Apparatus and Furniture Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Department of Energy, Brookhaven National Laboratory (DOE Contractor), Brookhaven, PO Box 5000 Bldg. No. 355, Upton, NY, 11973, UNITED STATES
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- TEM121530
- Response Due
- 6/7/2007
- Archive Date
- 6/22/2007
- Description
- This solicitation is being issued as a Request for Proposals (RFP) for Transmission Electron Microscope designed to provide an optimum combination of in-situ capabilities for high-resolution imaging, diffraction, and spectroscopy (energy dispersive x-ray spectroscopy (EDS), electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS), and/or spectroscopy imaging). Under this RFP Brookhaven Science Associates (BSA), operator of the Department of Energy??s Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), will award a firm fixed price contract for a Transmission Electron Microscope. The transmission electron microscope shall be a side-entry high resolution instrument with nano-probe analytical capabilities. It shall offer the highest quality of the combined accomplishment on atomic-imaging point-to-point resolution (0.2nm), energy-spread (<0.8eV), and specimen tilt-angle (?p30??) available with today??s technology. The performance of the microscope shall meet the published specifications of the manufacturer, including but not limited to the salient features so specified in the Specification No. CFN-EM-1.2.3.x.1 Rev A dated May 18, 2007. The instrument shall be delivered to BNL on or before October 15, 2007. The Seller shall test the microscope with a BNL employee at the factory before shipment. The Seller shall demonstrate that the instrument meets specifications after the installation procedure is completed at BNL. Installation and acceptance tests shall be complete on or before December 31, 2007. Schedule performance is critical to this project. Offers received which are do not demonstrate the ability to deliver in accordance with the schedule will be deemed non-responsive. This, acquisition, is a, ??Best Value??, procurement. The utilization of this procedure is expected to provide the greatest overall benefit to BSA/BNL. ??Best Value?? employs a trade off process that permits award to other than the lowest priced offeror or to the highest technically rated offeror. The tradeoff process, associated with Best Value involves a comparative weighing of the evaluation factors and sub-factors identified in the Request for Proposals (RFP). Specifically, the trade off process involves selecting the most advantageous offer based upon an integrated assessment of both non-cost/price factors, taken in their assigned relative importance. The following factors, in their relative order of weighting, will be utilized to evaluate the offers Section 1. General Summary Production and Installation Schedule. TEM Technical Specification Section 2. Transmission Electron Microscope 2.1 Configuration 2.2 Accelerating Voltages 2.3 Electron Source 2.4 Illumination system 2.5 Objective lens system 2.6 Imaging system 2.7 Diffraction 2.8 Specimen Stage 2.9 Photography system 2.10 Vacuum system 3. Scanning Attachment 4. Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectrometer 5. Gatan Imaging Filter (Option) 6. Electron Energy-Loss Spectrometer (option) 7. Multi-scan CCD camera 8. TV-rate camera 9. Others 9.2 Operating Manuals - 9.3 Warranty - 9.4 Service Coverage - 9.5 Training Proposals are due June 7, 2007 by 4:00 PM, EDT, and shall be submitted to Brookhaven Science Associates, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Attention: D. Paveglio, Bldg. 830M, Upton, NY 11973. This RFP has been sent to the following Known Vendors: Hitachi Electron Microscope Division, 940 Clopper Road, Suite 44, Gaithersburg, MD 20878 Jeol USA, Inc.11 Dearborn Road, Peabody, MA 01960 FEI Company, 257 Loring Avenue, Salem, MA 01970
- Place of Performance
- Address: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY
- Zip Code: 11973
- Country: UNITED STATES
- Zip Code: 11973
- Record
- SN01299236-W 20070523/070521220315 (fbodaily.com)
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