SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- Biomechanics Expert
- Notice Date
- 4/27/2012
- Notice Type
- Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
- NAICS
- 541712
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)
- 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
- NB735130-12-01704
- Archive Date
- 6/29/2012
- Point of Contact
- Willie W. Lu, Phone: 3019758259, Chon S. Son, Phone: 301-975-8567
- E-Mail Address
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willie.lu@nist.gov, chon.son@nist.gov
(willie.lu@nist.gov, chon.son@nist.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- THIS IS A COMBINED SYNOPSIS/SOLICITATION FOR COMMERCIAL ITEMS PREPARED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE FORMAT IN FAR SUBPART 12.6-STREAMLINED PROCEDURES FOR EVALUATION AND SOLICITATION FOR COMMERCIAL ITEMS-AS SUPPLEMENTED WITH ADDITIONAL INFORMATION INCLUDED IN THIS NOTICE. THIS ANNOUNCEMENT CONSTITUTES THE ONLY SOLICITATION; QUOTATIONS ARE BEING REQUESTED, AND A WRITTEN SOLICITATION DOCUMENT WILL NOT BE ISSUED. THIS SOLICITATION IS BEING ISSUED USING SIMPLIFIED ACQUISITION PROCEDURES UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF FAR SUBPART 13.5 TEST PROGRAM FOR CERTAIN COMMERCIAL ITEMS This solicitation is a Request for Quotation (RFQ). The solicitation document and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), Federal Acquisition Circular 2005-58 The associated North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) code for this procurement is 541712 with a small business size standard of 500 employees. STATEMENT OF WORK Project Title: Biomechanics Expert DESCRIPTION OF TASK Background Industry is developing a new generation of industrial robots that are designed to work in human collaborative environments. At the same time, ISO 10218 WG3 is in the process of finalizing a new set of robot safety standards that include provisions for collaborative robot operation. As these two developments merge there is a significant need by industry for measurements and test methods to determine if this new generation of robots conforms to the revised robot safety standards that now allow human/robot collaboration. This project addresses the power and force limiting aspects of the standard. Power and force limiting is a robot function that performs a protective stop if any parameter limit is exceeded in the event that a robot makes contact with a human during collaborative operations. A protective stop is defined as an interruption of motion that allows a robot to continue after the stop while retaining program logic, and in the case of power and force limiting to facilitate an automatic continuance of a task when parameters fall below critical values. The standard defines a set of medical/biomechanical requirements and parameters that include a defined human body model with multiple regions, relevant injury criteria for each region with their limit values, and characteristic values for the deformation constant, based on the assumption of linear deformation behavior of the established body regions. These permissible forces and surface pressures for the affected soft tissue individual body regions must be tested according to relevant collision area points after setting up a robotic workcell. The characteristic deformation and limit values currently in the standard were derived from work done by the German Institute for Occupational Safety (BGIA). NIST is currently developing a device that replicates the deformation constants of the various body regions and measures static and dynamic collision forces in accordance with the BGIA recommendations. The results of the work will provide guidance and test procedures for using such a device as input into ISO Technical Specification TS15066. In addition, new studies are underway by BGIA in Germany to scale down the values of the injury criteria based on a human study involving pain thresholds. This human study began in September of 2011 and is expected to last 3 years. It is expected that the same injury criteria and soft tissue injury measures will be used; only the values will change. Parallel to these international efforts, NIST has determined the need to take a step backward and review the validity of the current injury criteria, and investigate if alternative soft tissue injury criteria are available or can be derived. In addition, the current approach provides no guidance on human body dynamics and under free space collisions. NIST seeks guidance to establish independent free space collision criteria for use in conjunction with any soft tissue injury criteria chosen. Finally, based on the results of the injury criteria study, NIST is looking for conceptual designs for developing a test device that incorporates both the proposed injury criteria and free space collision criteria into a single test device. NIST's review of these designs could lead to future work to refine the selected design and build a prototype measurement system. Purpose and Objectives The work will provide NIST with the expertise in the area of biomechanics to determine the state-of-the-art in the development of human soft tissue injury criteria, free body dynamics of the human body, and associated test devices for determining the effects of robot collisions with humans in conjunction with the development of collaborative robot control strategies. The results of this work will be used by NIST in support of ISO 10218 and RIA/ANSI R15.06 Robot Safety Standards related work, specifically drafting of TS15066 Power and Force Limiting standards and performance measures. Requirements and Deliverables Task 1: The contractor shall perform the following reviews and document all findings in a report to NIST (Due July 30, 2012): a. a review of the current approach taken in the development of the soft tissue injury criteria developed under the ISO 10218 robot safety standards effort [1][2][3] as well as current efforts to revise the injury criteria values based on a pain threshold study b. a review of work to develop collision metrics in the area of human/robot collaboration c. a review of the state-of-the-art in modeling human soft tissue properties with respect to impact levels delivered by an industrial robot. d. attendance at ISO TC184/SC2 WG3 meeting Mainz, Germany (June 11-15, 2011) Task 2: The contractor shall develop recommendations for improving the BGIA-developed soft tissue injury criteria based on available data and document all findings in a report to NIST. (Due Aug 30, 2012) Task 3: The contractor shall develop a set of dynamic properties (i.e. mass, spring, damper) that represent the free body dynamics of the human body regions as defined by BGIA of varying poses when subjected to collisions from industrial robots. This work can be based on a literature search, computer models and/or experimentation. The contractor shall document all findings in a report to NIST (Due September 30, 2012) Task 4: The contractor shall develop preliminary design concepts for an instrumented device that models soft tissue regions and human body dynamics for injury criteria measures (i.e. forces, deformations) relevant for robot collisions with humans and document all findings in a report to NIST (Due November 30, 2012) Standards and References: 1. ISO 10218-1 Robots and robotic devices - Safety requirements - Part1: Industrial robots 2. ISO 10218-2 Robots and robotic devices - Safety requirements - Part2: Industrial robot systems and integration 3. ISO/TS 15066 Robots and robotic devices - collaborative robots 4. BG/BGIA risk assessment recommendations according to the machinery directive, U 001/2009e October 2009 edition, revised February 2011 Modeling References 5. Literaturliste Stand 13.11.2009, References for 4 above. 6. Treitz et al, Measuring the Collision Potential of Industrial Robots, ISR/ROBOTIK 2010 Note: References above are provided as a starting point and shall not be used as the sole basis of this study. PERFORMANCE a. Period of Performance: Six (6) months after date of award b. Place of Performance: Performance will be at the Contractor's facility with the exception of travel by the key personnel contractor employee to attend the ISO TC184/SC2 WG3 meeting Mainz, Germany (June 11-15, 2011) SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Prospective Contractors must submit the following via electronic quotation to Willie Lu at willie.lu@nist.gov no later than Monday, May 7, 2012 at 2:00 pm EST. Volume I - TECHNICAL Volume There shall be no pricing information or labor rates included in the Technical Volume. The Offeror shall submit the following as parts of Volume I: A. Technical Approach- The Offeror shall submit a detailed technical approach for this requirement that demonstrates a sound and feasible approach to completing the tasks detailed in the Statement of Work, as well as a sufficient understanding of the tasks and deliverables required by the Statement of Work, and the purpose of the requirement. B. Key Personnel Information- The Offeror shall submit a list of the proposed key personnel candidate(s) for the tasks detailed in the Statement of Work. It is expected that this requirement will require the work of at least one key personnel contractor employee. In addition, the Offeror shall submit the resume(s) for each proposed key personnel to demonstrate the extent to which the key personnel meet the minimum qualifications detailed in the evaluation factors for award. C. Experience - The Offeror shall describe its past experience in performing work for other organizations (private or public organizations) that is similar in size and scope to the work detailed in the Statement of Work. The work described in this section must have been performed within the past three years. The relevancy of the Offeror's past experience to this requirement shall be clearly demonstrated. Volume II - PRICING Volume The Offeror shall submit the following as part of Volume II: The Offeror shall provide a total firm fixed price for the requirement detailed in the Statement of Work. As supporting information to the total firm fixed price proposed, the pricing volume shall also show the following: a. The total number of hours being proposed for the performance of the work by each key personnel proposed. b. The fully burdened hourly labor rate proposed for each key personnel contractor employee proposed. c. A proposed payment schedule for the requirements. The Statement of Work details certain due dates for certain deliverables that should be noted in the Offeror's payment schedule. BASIS FOR AWARD The Government intends to use the Lowest Priced, Technically Acceptable method to award a firm fixed-price purchase order to the responsible Offeror whose quotation represents the best value to the Government. Upon receipt of quotations, the Contracting Officer will review them to determine if each Offeror followed all of the quotation preparation/submission instructions in this solicitation. A quotation that did not follow the quotation submission instructions may be deemed unacceptable and may not be further evaluated. The contracting officer intends to award without discussions. However, discussions may be initiated by the contracting officer if necessary. Each quotation will be evaluated first to determine whether the quotation meets the requirements to be considered technically acceptable. If technically acceptable, the proposed pricing will then be evaluated. An Offeror's failure to address any factor may be considered indicative of the Offeror's lack of understanding of the Government's requirements and may result in the quotation being determined unacceptable. In order for a quotation to be considered technically acceptable, the quotation must demonstrate that the following requirements have been met: • Key personnel shall possess a MS or PhD in Biomedical Engineering or a related discipline; and at least 5 years' experience in the areas in the development of models, simulations and impact tests for the assessment of human soft tissue injuries due to blunt force, low velocity impacts. • The Offeror's technical approach for this requirement demonstrates a sufficient understanding of the tasks and deliverables required by NIST, the purpose of the requirement, and the information included in the Performance Requirements Summary of the Statement of Work. All responses shall be sent to the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Acquisition Management Division, Attn: Willie Lu, via email at willie.lu@nist.gov. ***Submission must be received by 2:00 p.m. eastern time on Monday, May 7, 2011***FAXED QUOTES WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. The following Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) provisions apply to this acquisition: 52.212-1 Instructions to Offerors-Commercial Items; and 52.212-3 Offeror Representations and Certifications-Commercial Items. The following FAR clauses apply to this acquisition: 52.212-4 Contract Terms and Conditions-Commercial Items; 52.212-5 Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statutes or Executive Orders-Commercial Items including subparagraphs: (1) 5.203-6 Restrictions on Subcontractor Sales to the Government; (8) Utilization of Small Business Concerns; (16) 52.219-28 Post Award Small Business program Rerepresentation; (17) 52.222-3 Convict Labor; (18) 52.222-19 Child Labor - Cooperation with Authorities and Remedies; (19) 52.222-21, Prohibition of Segregated Facilities; (20) 52.222-26, Equal Opportunity; (21) 52.222-35, Equal Opportunity for Special Disabled Veterans, Veterans of the Vietnam Era, and Other Eligible Veterans (38 U.SC. 4212); (22) 52.222-36, Affirmative Action for Workers with Disabilities; (23) 52.222-37, Employment Reports on Special Disabled Veterans, Veterans of the Vietnam Era, and Other Eligible Veterans (38 U.S.C. 4212); (and (30) 52.232-33, Payment by Electronic Funds Transfer-Other Than Central Contractor Registration. 52.227-17 Rights in Data - Special Works. The following Department of Commerce (CAR) clauses Department of Commerce Clauses apply to this acquisition: 1352.201-70 Contracting Officer's Authority; 1352.201-72 Contracting Officer's Technical Representative (COTR); 1352.209-70 Organizational Conflict of Interest; 1352.209-72 Restrictions Against Disclosure; 1352.209-73 Compliance with the Laws; 1352.231-71 Duplication of Effort; 1352.233-70 Agency Protests; and 1352.227-70 Rights in Data, Assignment of Copyright.
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