SOURCES SOUGHT
D -- Commercial Vision Software Application
- Notice Date
- 6/23/2015
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 511210
— Software Publishers
- 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
- NB735110-15-04104
- Archive Date
- 7/18/2015
- Point of Contact
- Amber Gray, Phone: 301-975-3696, Robert Cowins, Phone: 301-975-8335
- E-Mail Address
-
amber.gray@nist.gov, robert.cowins@nist.gov
(amber.gray@nist.gov, robert.cowins@nist.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- This Notice is for planning purposes only and is not a Request for Proposal, a Request for Quotation or an obligation on the part of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for conducting a follow-on acquisition. NIST does not intend to award a contract on the basis of this Notice, or otherwise pay for the information requested. No entitlement or payment of direct or indirect costs or charges by NIST will arise as a result of submission of responses to this Notice and NIST use of such information. NO SOLICITATION DOCUMENTS EXIST AT THIS TIME. Background: The Intelligent Systems Division (ISD) of the Office of Information Systems Management (OISM) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) develops, advances and deploys measurement science and standards to speed development, adoption, and integration of leading-edge intelligent technologies to advance U.S. manufacturing performance. Requirement: NIST is seeking information on vendors who can provide a commercial vision software application or suite of applications capable of visual sensing for a robot or automated guided vehicle, enabling it to identify objects, find their locations and orientations in three-dimensional space, verify that the objects are correct and in the right places, and report parameters of the objects such as size, shape, and color. The application must be able to handle two-dimensional and three-dimensional input data from a range of cameras, lasers, stereo sensors, and RGB-D sensors. Detailed specifications are outlined below: • Must be able to make one-dimensional (1D), two-dimensional (2D), and three dimensional (3D) measurements of features, surfaces, edges in real-world units (meters or inches). • Must recognize objects, features, and patterns, including when they are viewed in non-standard positions and orientations and with some occlusions. Must provide the ability to train patterns and recognize objects from sample images. Should preferably include the ability to make use of models of objects, such as from CAD systems. • Must provide tools to calibrate the sensors, including computing intrinsic and extrinsic parameters. Preferably should also be able to compute robot-to-camera transformations. • Given the calibration, must be able to locate objects, surfaces, features, and patterns in real-world space (position and orientation in three dimensions.) • Must be able to locate and read 1D and 2D bar codes. • Must allow the input and processing of color and grayscale images, point clouds, range images, and structured light data. • Must support input from of a range of sensors (cameras using GigE, USB, or other standards, lasers, stereo, and RGB-D sensors such as Microsoft Kinect). Must be able to work with commercial sensors that conform to accepted standards and not only with vendor-supplied sensors. • Must provide a large library of image processing tools to enable programmers to build their own applications using at least C++ but preferably C and other programming languages also. • Must provide a development environment that makes it easy to implement applications. • Must include visualization and image manipulation tools to graphically select regions, display results, and adjust parameters. • Must include tools to deal with illumination variation and image noise. • Must have real-time capability (when run on appropriate operating systems). • Must include the capability for non-programmers to develop applications. • Must support multiple platforms (at least Microsoft Windows and Linux.) • Must include substantial documentation of all functionality and guidance for how to develop applications and use all provided operations. If vendors do not have a single product that is able to address all the requirements, they should propose a suite of products and provide guidance on how to use them in combination to achieve the requirements. NIST is seeking responses from all responsible sources, including large and small businesses. The small business size standard associated with the NAICS code for this effort, 511210, is $38.5 million. Please include your company's size classification and socio-economic status in any response to this notice. Companies able to provide such supplies are requested to email a detailed response describing their abilities to amber.gray@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/companies 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. Number of days, after receipt of order that is typical for delivery of such system. 4. Indication of whether the instrument is currently on one or more GSA Federal Supply Schedule contracts. If so please provide the GSA FSS contract number(s). 5. Indication of whether the instrument proposed is a commercial item currently offered in the market place, a prototype, or an item currently being developed. 6. Any other relevant information that is not listed above which the Government should consider in developing its minimum specifications. Points of Contact: Amber Gray, Contract Specialist, Phone (301) 975-3696, Email: amber.gray@nist.gov Robert Cowins, Contracting Officer, Phone (301) 975-8335, Email: robert.cowins@nist.gov Interested parties shall describe the capabilities of their product(s) as it relates to the requirements described above. NIST anticipates issuing a Request for Quotation no later than the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2015, and awarding a contract no later than the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2015.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: National Institute of Standards and Technology, 100 Bureau Drive, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 20899, United States
- Zip Code: 20899
- Zip Code: 20899
- Record
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