SPECIAL NOTICE
66 -- Notice of Intent - Sole-Source Justification
- Notice Date
- 5/1/2015
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 334516
— Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Procurement Section, 935 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, District of Columbia, 20535, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20535
- Solicitation Number
- PR-0022408
- Archive Date
- 5/20/2015
- Point of Contact
- Jerry D. Varnell, Phone: 7036327500
- E-Mail Address
-
jerry.varnell@ic.fbi.gov
(jerry.varnell@ic.fbi.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Sole-Source Justification PLEASE READ THIS NOTICE CAREFULLY AS IT CONSTITUTES THE ONLY NOTICE THAT WILL BE PUBLISHED. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) intends to negotiate a one-time sole source contract with Agilent Technologies Incorporated, 2850 Centerville Road, Wilmington, DE 19808. The Government intends to negotiate with only one source under the authority of FAR 6.302-1. This notice will be distributed solely through the General Services Administration's Federal Business Opportunities (FBO) Website (www.fedbizopps.gov). Interested parties are responsible for monitoring the FBO site to ensure they have the most up-to-date information about this acquisition. The North American Classification System Code is 334516, Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing; the size standard is 500 employees. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) intends to award a non-competitive, sole source contract to Agilent Technologies Incorporated, 2850 Centerville Road, Wilmington, DE 19808 for two Cary 5000 UV-Vis-NIR Spectrophotometers. The FBI Explosive Unit (EU) is executing a joint improvised explosives research effort with the Department of Homeland Security. The EU's overall goal of the research is to thoroughly characterize synthesized explosive materials. This includes measuring the optical properties of the materials. The optical properties of a material not only round out the full molecular characterization of a material, but the information is essential for development of standoff detection technologies. A high resolution, wide range spectrophotometer, such as an Ultraviolet Visible Near Infrared (UV-Vis-NIR) spectrophotometer is the only way to accurately and precisely measure the optical properties. The FBI must have the ability to directly and accurately measure the UV-Vis-NIR properties of an explosive formulation. In order to accomplish this requirement and to properly measure this essential parameter, the Agilent Technologies Cary 5000 UV-Vis-NIR is the only spectrophotometer that will meet all of the FBI requirements listed below: • The system must measure the sample absorbance in both diffuse reflectance and transmission modes; • The system must allow analysis of liquid and solid samples using the appropriate accessories; • System must have a wavelength range of 175-3300nm; • System must use a double out-of-plane Littrow monochromator; • System must use a UV-V that is grating with 1200 lines/mm blazed at 250nm and a NIR grating with 300 lines/mm blazed at 1192nm; • The system must have a rotating beam splitter which measures a sample, dark, and reference signal per cycle with a speed of 30Hz; • System must cover the specified wavelength range sufficiently with no more than two detectors; Photomultiplier tube for UV-Vis and a cooled PbS detector for NIR; • System must have a limiting resolution of less than 0.048nm UV-Vis and 0.2nm NIR; • System must have low stray light transmittance, specifically less than 0.00007% at 220nm (10g/L Nal ASM method) and 0.00045% at 2365nm (CHCIӡ, 1cm pathlength) and equivalent in between the ranges; • System must have a wavelength accuracy measured by lamp lines of ±0.08nm in the range 190-900nm and ±0.4nm in the range 760-3000nm; • System must have high wavelength reproducibility demonstrated by peak separation of less than 0.025nm of repetitive screening of a UV-V is line source and less than 0.1nm for a NIR line source; • System must have a standard deviation of less than 0.005nm, UV-Vis and 0.02nm NIR for 10 measurements of a repetitive scanning; • The system must have high photometric accuracy demonstrated by less than 0.000025 ABd using the double aperture method at 0.3 Abs for UV-Vis; • The system must have a photometric range of 8 Abs with RBA; • The system must have a large sample compartment at least 160 x 433 x 221nm in size with beam separation of at least 190.5nm and access from the top, front, and base; • The instrument must be no more than 1020 x 710 x 380 mm in size not including attachments; • System must have a spectral bandwidth of at least 0.01nm and at most 5nm in the UV-Vis at a minimum of 0.01nm steps and at least 0.04nm and at most 20nm for NIR; • System must be able to signal average between 0.033 to 999s; • System must have a scan rate equal to or more than 2000nm/min in the UV-Vis and 8000nm/min in the NIR; • System must be able purge both the sample compartment and optics separately; • The system must include an attachment to measure reflectance of a solid material mounted horizontally without purchasing additional detectors; • Vendor must provide on-site setup and developmental support; • System must come with operational and user definable software. Agilent Technologies Incorporated is the sole manufacturer and distributor of the Cary 5000 UV-Vis-NIR spectrophotometer, therefore is the only vendor that can meet all the requirements of the FBI. Based on market research conducted and contacts made with knowledgeable individuals within the government and related industry, it has been determined the FBI's requirement can only be provided by Agilent Technologies Incorporated as they are the sole-manufacturer and supplier of the Cary 5000 UV-Vis-NIR spectrophotometer. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive quotations; however, interested parties may identify their interests and capability to respond to this requirement to this office by 08:00 am, EST, May 05, 2015, by email to the attention of Jerry Varnell, Contract Specialist, at Jerry.Varnell@ic.fbi.gov. Information received will be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether or not to conduct a competitive procurement. Telephone requests will not be considered. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed contract based upon response to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Vendors must be registered in SAM, effective July 29, 2012 to receive government contracts. The FBI uses a financial system that has a direct interface with SAM. Please ensure that your company's SAM information is updated and accurate. This includes TIN, EFT, DUNS, addresses and contact information. The EFT banking information on file in SAM will be what the FBI uses to process payment to your organization.
- Web Link
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- Place of Performance
- Address: 4940 Fowler Road, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, 35898, United States
- Zip Code: 35898
- Zip Code: 35898
- Record
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