SOLICITATION NOTICE
66 -- Scanning Electron Microscope Imaging System
- Notice Date
- 7/8/2008
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 334516
— Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing
- 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, Maryland, 20899-1640
- ZIP Code
- 20899-1640
- Solicitation Number
- SB1341-08-RQ-0437
- Archive Date
- 8/7/2008
- Point of Contact
- Paula A. Wilkison,, Phone: 301-975-8448, Patrick K Staines,, Phone: (301)975-6335
- E-Mail Address
-
paula.wilkison@nist.gov, patrick.staines@nist.gov
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- ***The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), intends to negotiate, on a sole source basis, under authority of FAR 13.106-1(b)(1), with 4pi Analysis, Inc. in Durham, North Carolina for the purchase of an SEM Imaging System.*** ***The sole source determination is based on the fact that 4pi Analysis, Inc. is the only vendor that manufactures SEM Imaging Systems with proprietary drift compensation software that allows the instrument to quickly and accurately correct the drift and unwanted high-frequency motions of the SEM’s electron beam. Specifically, our requirement is for drift compensation for stage and beam drift for both imaging and x-ray mode at slow image scan rates (10 minutes per frame) up to TV rate (1/60 s per frame, i.e. 60 frames per second) imaging and with sub-pixel accuracy. This proprietary feature is critical to the work of NIST’s Nanoscale Metrology group. ***Delivery shall be FOB Destination, Gaithersburg, MD.*** ***The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this acquisition is 334516, and the size standard is 500 employees.*** ***No solicitation package will be issued. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive quotations; however, the Government will consider responses received by July 23, 2008.*** A determination by the Government not to compete the proposed acquisition based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information received will normally be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement.
- Web Link
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- Place of Performance
- Address: 100 Bureau Drive, Mail Stop 1640, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 20899, United States
- Zip Code: 20899
- Zip Code: 20899
- Record
- SN01608768-W 20080710/080708220937-6e94b9f40a32556a7f896249f8264848 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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