SOLICITATION NOTICE
67 -- SIDE MOUNT DIGITAL CAMERA FOR PHILIPS CM200 TEM
- Notice Date
- 9/19/2007
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 333315
— Photographic and Photocopying Equipment Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- NASA/Glenn Research Center, 21000 Brookpark Road, Cleveland, OH 44135
- ZIP Code
- 44135
- Solicitation Number
- NNC07214451Q
- Response Due
- 9/26/2007
- Archive Date
- 9/20/2008
- Point of Contact
- Konrad B. Mader, Purchasing Agent, Phone 216-433-2138, Fax 216-433-2480
- E-Mail Address
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Konrad.B.Mader@grc.nasa.gov
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- This notice is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in FAR Subpart 12.6, as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; offers are being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued. This notice is being issued as an RFQ for a side mount digital camera for a Philips CM200 transmission electro microscope, specifications are listed below. The provisions and clauses in the RFQ are those in effect through FAC 05-20. All responsible sources may submit an offer which shall be considered by the agency. Delivery to NASA Glenn Research Center is required within 60 days ARO. Offers for the items(s) described above are due by close of business Wednesday, September 26, 2007 to NASA Glenn Research Center, 21000 Brookpark Rd, MS 500-306, Cleveland, OH 44135 and must include, solicitation number, proposed delivery schedule, discount/payment terms, warranty duration (if applicable), taxpayer identification number (TIN), identification of any special commercial terms, and be signed by an authorized company representative. Offerors are encouraged to use the Standard Form 1449, Solicitation/Contract/Order for Commercial Items form found at URL: http://server-mpo.arc.nasa.gov/Services/NEFS/NEFSHome.tml Offerors shall provide the information required by FAR 52.212-1 (SEPT 2006), Instructions to Offerors-Commercial Items, which is incorporated by reference. If the end product (s) offered is other than domestic end product(s) as defined in the clause entitled "Buy American Act -- Supplies," the offeror shall so state and shall list the country of origin. FAR 52.212-4 (FEB 2007), Contract Terms and Conditions-Commercial Items is applicable. The FAR may be obtained via the Internet at URL: http://www.acquisition.gov/far/index.html The NFS may be obtained via the Internet at URL: http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/procurement/regs/nfstoc.htm All contractual and technical questions must be in writing (e-mail Konrad.B.Mader@nasa.gov or fax 216 433-2480) to Konrad Mader not later than 9-26-07. Telephone questions will not be accepted. Selection and award will be made to that offeror whose offer will be most advantageous to the Government, with consideration given to the factors of proposed technical merit, price, and past performance. It is critical that offerors provide adequate detail to allow evaluation of their offer. (SEE FAR 52.212-1(b)). Offerors must include completed copies of the provision at 52.212-3, Offeror Representations and Certifications - Commercial Items with their offer. These may be obtained via the internet at URL: http://prod.nais.nasa.gov/eps/Templates/Commercial_Greater_Than_25K.doc . These representations and certifications will be incorporated by reference in any resultant contract. An ombudsman has been appointed -- See NASA Specific Note "B". Prospective offerors shall notify this office of their intent to submit an offer. It is the offeror's responsibility to monitor the following Internet site for the release of solicitation amendments (if any): http://prod.nais.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/eps/bizops.cgi?gr=D&pin=22 . Potential offerors will be responsible for downloading their own copy of this combination synopsis/solicitation and amendments (if any). Any referenced notes may be viewed at the following URLs linked below. Specifications for a Side Mount Digital Camera for a Philips CM200 Transmission Electron Microscope PR 4200214451 This procurement is for a Side Mount Digital Camera for a government-owned Philips CM20O transmission electron microscope (sin D806). The camera control software shall operate on a government owned personal computer running Microsoft Windows XP. The camera and control software shall include the following features and capablties; 1. Side Mount Digital Camera Camera shall consist of a high-resolution CCD camera, installed on the sde wide-angle port (35 mm port) of a Philips CM200 transmission electron microscope (s/n D806). Camera shall have a minimum pixel clock rate of 25 MHz, dynamlc range of 16384 gray values (14 bits), minimum image resolution of 2048 x 2048 pixels, binning factors: 2x, 4x or 8x, partial readout functionality, exposure times of 1 ms to 160 s, and trigger functionality Connection to the computer shall be via an included IEEE 1394 PCI interface with cables Camera shall be stabilized via Peltier cooling to 15 degrees C. Camera shall have an internal electronic shutter with no modification to the TEM Lens shall be optically coupled to a phosphorcus screen optimized for 200kV. Phosphorous screen shall be automatically moved into the beam path via software control. Camera shall be shielded as to prevent any radiation Exposure per Philips/FEI specifications 2. Control Software a. Camera control software shall operate on a government owned Dell PC running Windows XP and Gatan's Digital Micrograph. b. Software shall provide integrated drivers for numerous TEM cameras with optimized camera control, automatic contrast enhancement, automatic exposure time adjustment. and real-time functions such as FFT. online histogram, shading corredron, etc. c Software shall provide user-definable loglcal Input channels allow preclse configuration of all lnputs being used and automatic image caltbration during acquisrtlon. d. Software shall provide auto focus for all microscopes with automat~cIm age shift via remote e. Software shall provide automatic read-out, saving and arci;v~ng of all microscope, camera and caltbration parameters along with the image. f. Software shall provide for simultaneous and clearly structured display of multiple images. including the llve Image. g. Software shall prov~dea dynamic scale bar which adjusts automatically to respective zoom factor. h. Software shall provide dlrect access to live images vla the Internet and IP addlessaSle camera functionallty. i. Software shall provide the following measurement and processing capabilities, - Interactwe measurement of geometr~cs tructu:es - w~thinth e live image as well - Extended overlay functionality - Phase analysis with threshold setting - Automatlan of measurement sequences vla macro recording and prograrnmlng - Data display in sheets and diagrams Including statistics - Montages multiple component images into a single seamless panorama Image + S~gnificanitm age enhancement vla contrast enhancement - Image processing via other filters -Two-dimensional Fast Four~eTr ransformation (FFT) including cclnvolut~Gna nd correlation. In FFT space, the real and imag~naryp arts and the phase shall be supported Annular, blob, lattice and sector fillers shall be available and they can be logically connected. Spec~ficfr equenc~eso r frequency ranges of the orientation can be shownlhidden in the actual Image. 1 Software shall provide acqulsltlon of ~magese quences with up to 1000 imageslsequence Soflware provides infoimatron regard~nga mount of storage space necessary and how long the acquisit~onw ill take Image sequences are comprised of single Images with~na n image stack and can be saved and archived dlrectly as a film in the AVI format k Software shall provide C programming langilage and hlgh-performance image-processing libraries containing more than 8000 commands. Windows API commands and commands from external DLLs shall be supported This sofhvare extension shall include a compIler and a debugger. I. Software shall provide a structured database wlth the following propert~esfo r storing all kinds of documents such as images, sheets, external files - Networkable and for use for multiple users - Definable structure and specifications - Storage of any docurnents. All internal documents and documents of thlrd-party applicatrons shall be supported (as long as they can be stored as filesj - Autornat~cs tart-up of any third-party programs requ~redfo r openlng documents of that program - Thumbnails rnake handling large amounts of data fast and eftclent - Automatic rnor,itoring of hard-drive space - Wlzards make selling up databases, backing up data or transferring data to storage med~urnsu ser fr~endly - Fully Integrated storage and data medium transfer funct~onsp rovide direct access to DVDs or CDs from within the database - User has option of working with muitrple databases s~multaneouslya t the same workstation - Easy-to-use and varied options for sett~ngu p complex queries - including SQL - Automatic or manual file naming - User-defined views {tree control, list or gallery) - Export or mirror of structured data (directory tree control remalns intact) -Templates for creating databases for various application fields shall be included. m Software shall provlde various forms of documentation; - Fast print-out of multlple Images on single page - Automated report generation using report generator - Have all images and other data either automatically or interactively inserted - Simultaneous loading or insertion of multiple imagesldata by selecting multiple items - Easy and fast layout creat~onw ~thte xt, diagrams, images and much more uslng modifiable sample templates - Displaylhighl~ghItm portant Image details via detail zooms of selected image segmenis - Insert auto text fields (date, time, user, etc) - RTF format compatible for expart~flgre ports to MS Word n. Software shall provlde for processing of diffraction patterns; - Indexing diffract~onp atterns of both single crystalline and polycrystall~nec onducted via automatic threshold detection or via manual deAn~tlono f the two g vectors. - Dlsplay of the Miller indices, zone axis, and indexing result with~nth e Image overlay - Lattice distances may be listed In a sheet automatlcaliy as needed. - All data, including the image information is saved wlth the dlffractlon image. - Lattice plane distances can be measured as well as the angles between two different planes 3. Installation and Training Shall Include a mlnirnum of two days for installation and training. Shall include all expenses for travel and lodging NOTE: THIS NOTICE WAS NOT POSTED TO FEDBIZOPPS ON THE DATE INDICATED IN THE NOTICE ITSELF (19-SEP-2007). IT ACTUALLY APPEARED OR REAPPEARED ON THE FEDBIZOPPS SYSTEM ON 23-SEP-2007. PLEASE CONTACT fbo.support@gsa.gov REGARDING THIS ISSUE.
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