SOURCES SOUGHT
66 -- AIR COOLED HIGH TEMPERATURE FURNACE - AMD-13-SS49 Sources Sought
- Notice Date
- 6/6/2013
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 333994
— Industrial Process Furnace and Oven 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, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20899-1640
- Solicitation Number
- AMD-13-SS49
- Archive Date
- 7/6/2013
- Point of Contact
- Eric Bubar, Phone: 3019753635
- E-Mail Address
-
eric.bubar@nist.gov
(eric.bubar@nist.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- AMD-13-SS49 Sources Sought The National Institute of Standards and Technology conducts research and provides services pertaining to tungsten-rhenium thermocouple materials. These materials are rated for use in argon up to 2300 °C, and routine testing up to 2200 °C is required for research and calibration activities. NIST seeks information on commercial vendors that are capable of providing a high-temperature furnace capable of stable operation at temperatures up to 2200 °C in an argon atmosphere. Laboratory installation constraints necessitate a ‘bench top' design, suitable for air-cooled operation and physically compact. The furnace chamber and power supply should each have base areas less than 1 m2 in order to qualify as ‘bench top' systems. The inner hot zone must be 5 cm or larger in order to establish sufficient spatial uniformity. After results of this market research are obtained and analyzed, and specifications developed, NIST may conduct a competitive procurement and subsequently award a Purchase Order for an air cooled high temperature furnace. 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. NIST has a need for a new air cooled high temperature furnace that would meet the following requirements: Minimum Specifications: 1. Air cooled 2. Range: 100 C to 2200 C (argon) 3. Top loading 4. Capable of achieving an ultimate vacuum 1E-6 mbar 5. Vacuum gauge 1E-3 mbar to atm and bourdon tube gauge 6. 20 SCFH flowmeter, overpressure relief valve, gas inlet and outlet valves, manual vacuum valve 7. Voltmeter and Ammeter 8. Line Voltage: 120V or 240V, 60 Hz, 20 amp, NEMA 5-20 plug on 6' cord 9. Vacuum ports 10. Gas purge Port Additional Specifications: 11. 10 cubic meters/hour two stage rotary vane mechanical vacuum pump, Edwards RV8 - or equivalent 12. 800 °C to 2300 °C pyrometer, 0 °C to1500 °C thermocouple - or equivalent instrumentation 13. KF40 port to top lid - or equivalent commercial standard vacuum port 14. D14701000 Wide range gauge NW25 inlet - or equivalent instrumentation 15. Combination cold cathode-pirani gauge - or equivalent instrumentation 16. Graphite Hot Zone: 90 mm dia x 50 mm tall or greater 17. Insulation: graphite/ceramic - or equivalent materials to meet performance specifications 18. Heating element: carbon-carbon -or equivalent materials to meet performance specifications 19. Digital control with thermocouple and pyrometer inputs - or equivalent instrumentation 20. Computer controlled via Eurotherm 2704 with 20 program storage, RS232 communications, and 6 analog inputs. - or equivalent Instrumentation 21. Furnace Power: 2 kW - or less 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, 333994, as those domestic sources having 500 employees or less. Please include your company's size classification and socio-economic status in any response to this notice. Companies that manufacture an air cooled high temperature furnace are requested to email a detailed report describing their abilities to eric.bubar@nist.gov no later than the response date for this sources sought notice. The report should include achievable specifications and any other information relevant to your product or capabilities. Also, the following information is requested to be provided as part of the response to this sources sought notice: 1. Name of the company that manufactures the system components for which specifications are provided AND the manufacturing country of origin. 2. Name of company(ies) that are authorized to sell the system components, their addresses, and a point of contact for the company (name, phone number, fax number and email address). 3. Indication of number of days, after receipt of order that is typical for delivery of such systems. 4. Indication of whether each instrument for which specifications are sent to eric.bubar@nist.gov is 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 developing its minimum specifications and finalizing its market research. Point of Contact Eric Bubar, Contracting Specialist, Phone (301) 975-3635, Email eric.bubar@nist.gov
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