SPECIAL NOTICE
66 -- Manufacture of Neutron Guides
- Notice Date
- 11/20/2008
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- 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
- RP0014
- Archive Date
- 9/4/2013
- Point of Contact
- Carol A. Wood, Phone: 301-975-8172, Todd D Hill, Phone: 301-975-8802
- E-Mail Address
-
carol.wood@nist.gov, todd.hill@nist.gov
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- This is an open solicitation notice for a class of contractual actions that will be procured under existing Basic Ordering Agreements (BOAs) for the manufacture of neutron guides, in accordance with specifications created by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)/Center for Neutron Research (NCNR). The NIST/NCNR is a large laboratory facility consisting of a suite of instruments that measure the interaction of radiation with various materials to study their structure and properties. The NCNR maintains a wide variety of instruments that allow great flexibility in the type of samples and phenomena that can be studied and measured. The majority of these instruments use neutrons with energies at the low end of the energy spectrum called cold neutrons. These cold neutrons must be delivered from the neutron source to the instruments and neutron guides are used for this purpose. In much the same manner as a fiber optic cable carries light rays, the neutron guides channel the neutrons away from the source and carry them to a location where they are used to probe matter in one of the many neutron-scattering spectrometers at the NCNR. The interior of the guides is coated with a neutron-reflective material to maximize the transmission of neutrons by allowing those making contact with the interior surfaces at incident angles below a characteristic angle to be reflected and continue downstream toward the desired destination. The characteristic angle and reflection efficiency are functions of the reflective surface and coating properties and the energy of the incident neutron. In order to remain a state-of-the-art neutron scattering facility, the NCNR continues to evolve by adding new instrumentation and upgrading existing instrumentation. This requirement may result in orders under the existing BOAs for purchasing completed neutron guides, custom-made to satisfy the parameters and specifications provided by the NCNR Engineering staff. NIST intends to compete future requirements among and award orders to existing BOA holders based on the lowest proposed fixed price. At this time, there are two BOA holders with BOAs for the period beginning September 5, 2008 through September 4, 2013. To date, the cumulative total of orders placed under the BOAs is $2,380,000.00. The two BOAs described above were competed via full and open competition and awarded on a competitive basis in September 2007. The solicitation, all associated documentation, and amendments were posted to www.fedbizopps.gov under solicitation number SB1341-07-RP-0014. Interested parties with the capability to manufacture neutron guides may respond to this notice with a written statement of capability. The statement of capability will be reviewed by the NIST Technical Team. The statement of capability may be followed by a Request for Proposal package which will require the interested party’s complete proposal in accordance with the requirements of the solicitation. The party shall be permitted 45 days to respond to the request for proposal. The RFP would reflect all of the requirements of SB1341-07-RP-0014 updated with clauses and provisions in effect on the date the Government issues the RFP to a prospective Contractor. NIST will evaluate the Contractor’s proposal in accordance with the evaluation criteria included in the solicitation. Parties determined capable of performing the required work will be issued a Basic Ordering Agreement and will have the opportunity to compete among other BOA holders for future orders. This notice shall remain open continuously throughout the period of performance of the original Basic Ordering Agreements. This notice will be amended on a monthly basis, in order to provide specific notice of the number of solicitations for BOA orders issued within that month, and to update the cumulative award amount set forth above. In no event will the cumulative orders placed under the BOAs exceed $10,000,000.00
- Web Link
-
FedBizOpps Complete View
(https://www.fbo.gov/?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=dd99d6e46445e789cfb440914d2e8200&tab=core&_cview=1)
- Place of Performance
- Address: NIST, 100 Bureau Drive, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 20899, United States
- Zip Code: 20899
- Zip Code: 20899
- Record
- SN01708154-W 20081122/081120220305-dd99d6e46445e789cfb440914d2e8200 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
-
FedBizOpps Link to This Notice
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