SPECIAL NOTICE
66 -- Notice of Intent to Sole Source Immersion Lens for Apreo Scanning Electron Microscope
- Notice Date
- 11/2/2016
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- 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
- NB643000-17-00248
- Archive Date
- 11/29/2016
- Point of Contact
- Susan Ruzicka, Phone: 3019756321, Grace H. Garrity, Phone: 3019752345
- E-Mail Address
-
susan.ruzicka@nist.gov, grace.garrity@nist.gov
(susan.ruzicka@nist.gov, grace.garrity@nist.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) intends to negotiate on a sole source basis, under the authority of FAR 13.106-1(b) (1), with FEI Company located at 5350 NE Dawson Creek Drive, Hillsboro, OR 97124 to provide an immersion lens capable of being built into an FEI Apreo LV FEG Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM). The sole source justification is based on the following: NIST recently purchased an FEI Apreo SEM through a competitive acquisition. After the award of the microscope system to FEI, NIST became aware of a newly released immersion lens (FEI Part Number 1088336) manufactured by FEI which would provide an additional magnetic objective lens to the overall SEM system which will increase the low voltage resolution to 1.0 nm at 1kV without requiring beam acceleration, increase the high vacuum resolution to 0.9 nm at 15kV and improve detection capabilities by applying energy filtering. The improved resolution and detection capabilities will allow for more exact analyses of materials and increased range of image resolution. Because of the nature of the immersion lens in the overall SEM system, it will need to be incorporated into the Apreo SEM at the time of manufacture and cannot be added to the SEM after the base system is manufactured as an add-on or third party accessory. Market research has shown that FEI Company is the only manufacturer of an immersion lens compatible with the Apreo SEM system. Additionally, FEI Company is the only company capable of incorporating the immersion lens into the Apreo SEM system at the time of manufacture. Given these facts, the preferred vendor, FEI Company is the only source reasonably available to provide and install the immersion lens. The resulting purchase order will be a Firm Fixed Price purchase order. The NAICS Code is 334516 with a size standard of 1,000 employees. No solicitation package will be issued. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive quotations; however, interested parties who regard themselves as capable of fulfilling these requirements are invited to submit responses to the Government for consideration. Responses received by 11:00 am EST November 14th 2016 will be considered by the Government. A determination by the Government not to compete the proposed acquisition based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information received will normally be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement.
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- Record
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