SOURCES SOUGHT
66 -- Dilution Refrigerator System
- Notice Date
- 3/25/2016
- 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 B130, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 20899-1410, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20899-1410
- Solicitation Number
- AMD-16-SS15
- Archive Date
- 4/20/2016
- Point of Contact
- Cory L. Worley, Phone: 3019753635
- E-Mail Address
-
cory.worley@nist.gov
(cory.worley@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 Dilution Refrigerator System to support nanoscale science research in the Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST) user facility. NIST has a requirement for a Dilution Refrigerator System to support scanning probe nanoscale science research at cryogenic temperatures in the CNST user facility. The system will be sited in the CNST NanoLab as a resource accessible to researchers in the CNST and to outside users via collaboration to measure a wide range of different materials at the nanoscale. 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 Dilution Refrigerator System. If at least two qualified small businesses are identified during this market research stage, then any competitive procurement that resulted may be conducted as a small business set-aside. Measuring the properties of new nanostructured materials and devices is a critical part of the CNST mission. A very low noise, low vibration dilution refrigerator system is required to control the temperature and magnetic fields for a NIST custom designed and fabricated scanning probe microscope. Very sensitive measurements of atomic scale properties will be made at very low temperatures down to 10 mK (millikelvin) and in high magnetic fields. The measurement space for the scanning probe microscope (SPM) must be ultra-high vacuum (UHV), obtainable at room temperature. This type of measurement system requires a UHV compatible dilution refrigerator to obtain temperatures in the millikelvin range, and a superconducting magnet system to generate high magnetic fields. UHV compatibility requires all metal seals, of CF or VCR type, and a restriction of materials with low vapor pressure. The scanning probe microscope, which NIST is building, will be mounted on a platform connected to the dilution refrigerator in the inner vacuum can of the dilution refrigerator. The dilution refrigerator will have a central axis tube to allow the microscope module to be transferred from the top of the refrigerator to the magnet center in UHV. The dilution refrigerator and magnet system will be contained in a cryogenic vapor shielded Helium (He) dewar. The design of the system will emphasize, UHV, low noise, and low vibration operation suitable for scanning tunneling and atomic force microscopy measurements. To fulfill this requirement, the dilution refrigerator system shall have the capability to provide low noise and low vibration operation for scanning probe microscopy at millikelvin temperatures and high magnetic fields. 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 1,000 employees or less. Please include your company's size classification and socio-economic status in any response to this notice. Companies that manufacture a Dilution Refrigerator System are requested to email a detailed report describing their abilities to cory.worley@nist.gov no later than the response date for this sources sought notice. The report should include achievable specifications, pricing, 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 sent to cory.worley@nist.gov are 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.
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