SOLICITATION NOTICE
66 -- Sole Source Notice of Intent
- Notice Date
- 12/17/2013
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 334515
— Instrument Manufacturing for Measuring and Testing Electricity and Electrical Signals
- Contracting Office
- Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Acquisition Management Division, 100 Bureau Drive, Building 301, Room B130, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 20899-1410, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20899-1410
- Solicitation Number
- NB684060-14-00463
- Archive Date
- 1/16/2014
- 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
- The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Acquisition Management Division intends to negotiate with Technical Communities, Inc.; San Bruno, CA, on a sole source basis under the authority of FAR Subpart 13.106-1(b) - Soliciting from a single source, to purchase an analog signal generator. The National Institute of Standards and Technology Applied Electrical Metrology Group/Quantum Measurement Division is responsible for maintaining the U.S. volt and to provide for the dissemination of an internationally consistent, accurate, reproducible, and traceable voltage standard for the U.S. scientific, industrial base and government laboratories. The required acquisition for an Agilent E8257N is the microwave frequency generator to operate the programmable Josephson voltage standard (PJVS), which provides the highest accurate voltage reference for NIST to disseminate to U.S. industry. NIST is in the process of implementing the PJVS for research of high precision inter-comparison between JVS systems. The PJVS is required to have a microwave source from 18 GHz and above to drive the Josephson junction array to generate a quantum voltage step. The Quantum Device Group in Boulder, CO extensively tested several models of microwave generators in the PJVS systems for more than five years. This testing has shown that this series of microwave generators is 100% compatible with NIST's existing hardware and software. NIST would incur significant costs to adapt a different microwave generator to the existing PJVS system architecture, and could face significant additional costs in the long-term for support of a system that differs from the configuration that has proven its reliability in NIST's lab. Technical Communities, Inc. has previously been supplying the Agilent E8257N to the DoD's Naval Inventory Control Point (NAVICP) in Mechanicsburg, PA. Market research has shown that this particular model is not available from any other vendor, including Agilent Technologies. The NAICS Code is 334515- Instrument Manufacturing for Measuring and Testing Electricity and Electrical Signals with a size standard of 500 employees. NIST anticipates negotiating and awarding a firm-fixed-price purchase order to Technical Communities, Inc. for this requirement in the 1st quarter of fiscal year 2014. Interested parties that believe they could satisfy the requirements listed above for NIST may clearly and unambiguously identify their capability to do so in writing on or before the response date for this notice. This notice of intent is not a solicitation. Information submitted in response to this notice will be used solely to determine whether competitive procedures could be used for this acquisition. Any questions regarding this notice must be submitted in writing via email to Eric Bubar at eric.bubar@nist.gov. All responses to this notice of intent must be submitted so that they are received at eric.bubar@nist.gov no later than January 1, 2014 at 5:00 pm. Contracting Office Address: 100 Bureau Drive, Building 301, Room B129, Mail Stop 1640 Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899-1640 Place of Performance: 100 Bureau Drive Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899 United States Primary Point of Contact: Eric Bubar, Contract Specialist eric.bubar@nist.gov Phone: 301-975-3635
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