SOURCES SOUGHT
66 -- SOURCES SOUGHT: Primary Vibration Calibration System
- Notice Date
- 8/19/2013
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- 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, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20899-1640
- Solicitation Number
- AMD-13-SS53
- Archive Date
- 9/17/2013
- Point of Contact
- Paula Wilkison, Phone: 301-975-8448, Patrick Staines, Phone: (301)975-6335
- E-Mail Address
-
paula.wilkison@nist.gov, patrick.staines@nist.gov
(paula.wilkison@nist.gov, patrick.staines@nist.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) seeks information on commercial vendors that are capable of providing a Primary Vibration Calibration System to improve and expand the NIST vibration calibration services 24010C, 24020C, 24030C, 24050S, 24060S (http://www.nist.gov/calibrations/vibration_measurements.cfm) in the NIST Physical Measurement Laboratory (PML). The Primary Vibration Calibration System shall be capable of performing primary calibrations of the complex (magnitude and phase) sensitivity of single-ended or back-to-back reference accelerometers having either a charge or voltage output in conformance with ISO 16063-11 Methods for the calibration of vibration and shock transducers -- Part 11: Primary vibration calibration by laser interferometry and of reference laser vibrometers in conformance with ISO 16063-41 Methods for the calibration of vibration and shock transducers -- Part 41: Calibration of laser vibrometers. This system is expected to contain the following elements, or demonstrated equivalent: Vibration generator(s) Power amplifier(s) Signal generation/processing system Vibration isolation system(s) Positioning goniometer Quadrature interferometer The measurement system shall meet the following minimum requirements. 1) Calibration of complex sensitivity of accelerometers having either a charge or voltage output over a range of frequencies. Potential suppliers should indicate the range of amplitudes and frequencies; note that this calibration system must cover the following frequency range: 0.5 Hz to 20 kHz; potential supplier should indicate if a wider frequency range is available. 2) Calibration of reference laser vibrometers as defined in ISO 16063-41 over a range of frequencies. Potential suppliers should indicate the range of amplitudes and frequencies; note that this calibration system must cover the following frequency range: 0.5 Hz to 20 kHz; potential supplier should indicate if a wider frequency range is available. 3) Calibration of complex gain of charge, voltage, and IEPE amplifiers over a range of frequencies. Potential suppliers should indicate the range of frequencies; note that this calibration must cover the following frequency range: 0.5 to 50 kHz. It should be noted whether calibration coefficients generated from gain calibrations are able to be stored and then applied during the calibration of transducers. 4) Measurement uncertainty shall be specified over the entire range of performance; this shall be given as expanded magnitude and phase uncertainties with coverage factor of k = 2. This measurement uncertainty shall be given following procedures in the ISO/IEC Guide to Uncertainty in Measurement (GUM). The range may be broken into sub-ranges, if the uncertainty is dependent on frequency, e.g., it may be given in ranges such as 5 Hz to 1 kHz, >1kHz to 5kHz, etc. 5) The system must be designed so that the interferometer is mechanically isolated from the vibration generator(s). 6) The positioning goniometer must be capable of orienting the laser beam normal to the mounting surface of the vibration generator and at arbitrary locations on this surface. It must also be capable of positioning the laser beam in a full 360° arc around the outer circumference of the transducer under test in the case of a single-ended accelerometer or the top mounting surface of the transducer under test in the case of a back-to-back accelerometer. The laser beam shall be able to be positioned with a nominal repeatability of a minimum of 1°. Potential supplier should specify the positional uncertainty of the goniometer. 7) The system should provide access to the output of the quadrature photo detectors to enable independent measurement of their outputs. Optional consideration 1) Incorporation/interface to existing vibration generators. Existing instrumentation currently at the Physical Measurement Laboratory at NIST includes APS long-stroke vibration generators Models APS 129 and APS 500 with (2) APS 0109 Zero Position Controllers. Potential supplier should note whether their system is capable of interfacing with these vibration generators and controllers in the plan and, if so, whether they could use these instruments in the proposed system. 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 a Primary Vibration Calibration System. 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 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, 334516, 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 a Primary Vibration Calibration System are requested to email a detailed report describing their abilities to paula.wilkison@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. 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 provided 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 Paula Wilkison, Contract Specialist, Phone (301) 975-8448, E-mail paula.wilkison@nist.gov
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- Place of Performance
- Address: TBD, United States
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