SOURCES SOUGHT
66 -- Tunable Laser Diode System
- Notice Date
- 4/21/2011
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 333314
— Optical Instrument and Lens 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
- AMD-11-SS11
- Archive Date
- 5/31/2011
- Point of Contact
- Joni L Laster, Phone: 301-975-8397, Todd D Hill, Phone: 301-975-8802
- E-Mail Address
-
joni.laster@nist.gov, todd.hill@nist.gov
(joni.laster@nist.gov, todd.hill@nist.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- This is a SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE for market research purposes. THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS The National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST) seeks information on commercial vendors that are capable of providing a tunable laser diode system. The tunable diode laser system shall be used for cooling and trapping sodium atoms. After results of this market research are obtained and analyzed and specifications are developed for a tunable laser diode system that can meet NIST's minimum requirements, NIST may conduct a competitive procurement and subsequently award a Purchase Order. If at least two qualified small businesses are identified during this market research stage, then any competitive procurement that resulted would be conducted as a small business set-aside. The tunable laser diode system shall consist of new (not used or refurbished) parts and be capable of providing high power, narrow frequency laser light at 589nm with the performance requirements identified below: 1. Power Requirements: >=2 W over the wavelength range 2. Wavelength: Centered on 589nm, coarse tunable over 3nm 3. Frequency Linewidth: Narrowest possible linewidth, 1 MHz 4. Frequency stability: <200 MHz/K 5. Fine Tuning range: Mode hop free tuning range > 10 GHZ 6. Polarization: Linear NIST is seeking responses from all responsible sources, including large, foreign, and small businesses. Small businesses are defined under the associated NAICS code for this effort, 333314, as those domestic sources having 500 employees or less. Please include your company's size classification in any response to this notice. If two or more small businesses are identified, we will consider a set-aside. Companies that manufacture tunable laser diode systems, meeting the above technical specifications, are requested to email product literature and a letter describing their technological approach in enough detail to determine whether the tunable laser diode system can meet the specifications identified herein to joni.laster@nist.gov no later than the response date for this source sought notice. The letter shall include achievable specifications and any other information relevant to your product or capabilities. Also, the following information is requested as part of the response to this sources sought notice: 1. Name and size of the company that manufactures the tunable laser diode system for which specifications are provided. 2. Name of the company(s) that are authorized to sell the tunable laser diode system, their addresses, and a point of contact for the company (name, phone number, fax number, and email address). 3. Indication of the number of days after the receipt of the order that is typical for delivery of such tunable laser diode system. 4. Indication of whether each tunable laser diode system for which specifications are sent to joni.laster@nist.gov are currently on one or more GSA Federal Supply Schedule contracts and, if so, the GSA FSS contract number(s). 5. Any other relevant information that is not listed above which the government should consider in finalizing its market research. All documents must be sent to Joni Laster, contract specialist, at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Acquisition Management Division, 100 Bureau Drive, Mail Stop 1640, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-1640. Email address: joni.laster@nist.gov. Submission must be received not later than 3:00 pm local time on May 5, 2011
- Web Link
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FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/DOC/NIST/AcAsD/AMD-11-SS11/listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Address: 100 Bureau Drive, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 20899, United States
- Zip Code: 20899
- Zip Code: 20899
- Record
- SN02430745-W 20110423/110421235155-c05f67a320b04c58ed8498e1c468c83b (fbodaily.com)
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