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FBO DAILY ISSUE OF APRIL 16, 2010 FBO #3065
SOLICITATION NOTICE

66 -- Eye Tracker System

Notice Date

4/14/2010
 

Notice Type

Presolicitation
 

NAICS

423430 — Computer and Computer Peripheral Equipment and Software Merchant Wholesalers
 

Contracting Office

Department of Veterans Affairs;VA Boston Healthcare System;Contracting Officer (90C);940 Belmont Street;Brockton MA 02301
 

ZIP Code

02301
 

Solicitation Number

VA-241-10-RQ-0269
 

Response Due

4/28/2010
 

Archive Date

5/28/2010
 

Point of Contact

James.Kneeland@VA.Gov
 

E-Mail Address

Contract Specialist
(James.Kneeland@VA.Gov)
 

Small Business Set-Aside

N/A
 

Description

The Department of Veterans Affairs, VISN 1 Network Contracting Activity intends to negotiate a sole source procurement, under the authority of FAR 6.302-1, with Tobi Technology Inc., 510 N. Washington Street, Falls Church, VA 22046. The NAICS code is 423430 and the size standard 100 personnel. This notice of intent is NOT A REQUEST FOR COMPETITIVE PROPOSALS. Interested parties that can provide similar services or equal product must submit their technical specifications of product services, past performance information, price and delivery time, detailing how their services meet VA requirements to the contract specialist via e-mail. You should also provide your DUNs number and GSA number, if on a GSA contract.. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed contract based on responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. All responses must be received NLT April 28, 2010 @ 1:00PM/EST USA. E-mail: James.Kneeland@VA.Gov stating your ability to provide this capability. 1. Identification of the service/department: The VA Boston Healthcare System (VABHS) Center for Innovative Visual Rehabilitation (CIVR) is developing a novel and portable eye movement recording system and testing the validity of this system by comparing its sensitivity and reliability against traditional laboratory-based (i.e. non-portable) tests. If successful the members of the research team will perform a feasibility test with the new eye movement system in 10 veterans with traumatic brain injury. The long term goal of this project is to improve the diagnosis of "mild" TBI in our soldiers and veterans. Tobii appears to be the sole manufacturer of the eye tracker system that possesses the capabilities outlined in paragraph 3 below. 2. Nature and/or description of the action being approved: The VA Boston Healthcare System Center for Innovative Visual Rehabilitation (CIVR) wishes to purchase a Tobii eye tracker system that provides spatially and temporally sensitive recordings of eye position without the use of methods that require physical contact with the patients. The Tobii system monitors eye movements with four small cameras that are located at the edges of a monitor that capture the optical reflections from the corneas. The Tobii system has a 120 Hz data collection rate and has accuracy for eye movements of 0.5 degrees of visual angle. 3. Description of the supplies/services required to meet the agency's needs (including the estimated value): The Tobii T120 Eye Tracker and Tobii Studio analysis software is a specialized eye tracking system, especially suited for automatic remote eye tracking with minimal obtrusiveness. Research participants are free to move in a natural manner without the constraints or attachments that are part of many eye trackers. The eye tracker system must contain the following criteria in order to provide the appropriate level of support to this research. The Tobii system meets all of these requirements: 1. System must not require the subject to wear a head-mounted device or to wear apparatus of any type 2. Must allow for freedom of head movement after calibration within a head movement box of at least 44 x 20 x 30 cm, while maintaining high accuracy 3. Must have an accuracy rate of at least 0.5 4. Must have binocular tracking capabilities 5. Must have spatial resolution of at least 0.25 6. Must utilize both bright pupil and dark pupil eye tracking techniques, automatically optimizing for bright pupil and dark pupil response subjects 7. Must utilize multiple eye tracking sensors simultaneously for accurate Z-value calculations (distance measure must be accurate to 3 mm or better) 8. System must be capable of completing calibration within seconds 9. Must integrate eye tracker and monitor into one single device with unobtrusive design 10. Must perform tracking of 120 fps or faster 11. Must perform eye tracking across 24" or larger monitor, with maintained accuracy 1 degree or better also in the extreme corners of the screen at 70 cm distance from user to screen 12. Must be robust to maintain tracking despite occlusion of one sensor 13. Must maintain tracking during 25 cm/s or faster head movement speed 14. Must be a portable system 15. Must be capable of providing: real-time operator feedback (i.e. gaze position and quality) online analysis of data into saccades, fixations 16. System must allow export of data to SPSS, Matlab 17. System must have operational integration directly with the E-Prime software from PST that allows E-Prime to control the eye tracker 18. System must include hardware, software and license 19. Must provide at least one (1) paper copy and a digital file of the equipment and operation manuals. 20. Must provide a minimum of two (2) years warranty for the hardware 21. Warranty must include at no charge the following: repair or replace any system component, including parts and labor 22. Must provide a minimum of one (1) year software contract "Including free minor and major software upgrades 23.Company must provide toll-free technical support telephone line service Mon-Fri during normal working hours. 24. Data must be available for tracking of each eye individually. 4. Demonstration that the proposed contractor's unique qualifications or the nature of the acquisition requires use of the authority cited: The Tobii T120 Eye Tracker and Tobii Studio analysis software is a specialized eye tracking system, especially suited for automatic remote eye tracking with minimal obtrusiveness. Research participants are free to move in a natural manner without the constraints or attachments that are part of many eye trackers. As identified in #3 above, the Tobii eye tracker system has the capability to perform all of the tasks identified. No other vendor can meet all of these requirements in one product. 5. Contracting Office Address: Department of Veterans Affairs, VISN 1 Brockton Office, 940 Belmont Street, Brockton, Ma 02301
 

Web Link

FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/VA/BoVAMC/VAMCCO80220/VA-241-10-RQ-0269/listing.html)
 

Place of Performance

Address: VA Boston Healthcare System;Attn: Contracting;640 Belmont St;Brockton, Ma

Zip Code: 02301
 

Record

SN02122217-W 20100416/100414235525-0cfa152e43b6d4064cb855212bfea3a0 (fbodaily.com)
 

Source

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