SOLICITATION NOTICE
66 -- LASER BEAM EXPANDER
- Notice Date
- 6/19/2008
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 334515
— Instrument Manufacturing for Measuring and Testing Electricity and Electrical Signals
- Contracting Office
- NASA/Langley Research Center, Mail Stop 144, Industry Assistance Office, Hampton,VA 23681-0001
- ZIP Code
- 23681-0001
- Solicitation Number
- NNL08255233S
- Response Due
- 6/26/2008
- Archive Date
- 6/19/2009
- Point of Contact
- Jason E Taylor, Contract Specialist, Phone 757-864-5340, Fax 757-864-8863, - M Fran Risinger, Contract Specialist, Phone 757-864-2450, Fax 757-864-9775
- E-Mail Address
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jason.e.taylor@nasa.gov, Fran.Risinger@nasa.gov
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- NASA/LaRC has a requirement for a high precision laser beam expander (off axisconfiguration, Dall-Kirkham design) for the "DAWN AIR1", an airborne 2-microncoherent-detection Doppler wind lidar system.NASA/LaRC intends to purchase the item from Nu-Tek Precision Optical Corp (Aberdeen, MD)as the only reasonably available source. Nu-Tek was recently competitively awarded acontract to design and build a similar beam expander for use in the laboratory. In lidarapplication, especially for coherent Doppler detection, the beam-expander is a criticalsubsystem in transmitting and receiving the laser pulse and its return signal withminimal wavefront distortion. The lidar receiving system is carefully and laboriouslyfine tuned to the beam expander; and the measurements must be calibrated and validatedwith known referent measurements. The procurement being sought is to design and build abeam expander that will be engineered to meet the flight requirements for use in NASAsDC-8 Airborne Science Laboratory. For the measurements to be meaningful, we will have tocompare and validate flight measurement with known ground measurement to properlyquantify and validate system performance. The flight unit therefore must have the exactoptical design and performance as in the laboratory version being used for development. Otherwise, there will be much needed re-engineering effort for the lidar processingsystem. This would result in significant cost increase to the Government and wouldsignificantly increase risk to the flight program. NuTek is building the laboratoryversion, and has the relevant knowledge and experience that will be readily applicable tothe custom aircraft flight unit. This knowledge and experience is not readilytransferable to another contractor. The Government intends to acquire a commercial item using FAR Part 12.Interested organizations may submit their capabilities and qualifications to perform theeffort in writing to the identified point of contact not later than 4:30 p.m. local timeon 26 June 2008. Such capabilities/qualifications will be evaluated solely for thepurpose of determining whether or not to conduct this procurement on a competitive basis. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed effort on a full and opencompetition basis, based upon responses to this notice, is solely within the discretionof the government.Oral communications are not acceptable in response to this notice.All responsible sources may submit an offer which shall be considered by the agency.An Ombudsman has been appointed. See NASA Specific Note "B".Any referenced notes may be viewed at the following URLs linked below.
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