SPECIAL NOTICE
66 -- Notice of Intent to Award
- Notice Date
- 4/19/2017
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 334516
— Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), NIST AMD Boulder, 325 Broadway, Boulder, Colorado, 80305, United States
- ZIP Code
- 80305
- Solicitation Number
- SB1341-17-SU-0220
- Archive Date
- 5/6/2017
- Point of Contact
- Dennis M. Fuentes, Phone: 3034975573
- E-Mail Address
-
dennis.fuentes@nist.gov
(dennis.fuentes@nist.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Notice of Intent: NB647000-17-02231 Status: Open Description of Contract Action: Cable Mgmt. System and Interface for Versa XRM. With Install, training, and warranty. Post Date: 04/19/2017 Close Date: 04/21/2017 File Name: NB647000-17-02231 / Cable Mgmt. System and Interface for Versa XRM. With Install, training, and warranty. Contact Points: Dennis Fuentes, Contracting Officer (303) 497.5573 This requirement is conducted under Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 13.106-1(b). This is a notice of intent to negotiate on a sole source basis and is not a request for competitive proposals. Firms who want to challenge the sole source must submit an interest letter that demonstrates your firm's ability to provide an equivalent service as described below. Interested parties must provide rationale as to why they should be considered. All interested firms must respond to this special notice by 21 April 2017, 11:00am, Mountain Time to Dennis M. Fuentes at dennis.fuentes@nist.gov. Responses received will be assessed; however, a determination by the Government not to compete the proposed procurement based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion for the Government. Information received will normally be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. NIST will not reimburse for any costs connected with providing the capability information. Description: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), intends to negotiate and award on a sole-source basis under the authority of FAR 13.106-1 (b) with Carl Zeiss Microscopy, LLC, a USA domestic firm. The Applied Chemicals and Materials Division extensively uses its existing Zeiss Versa XRM500 X-ray microcomputed tomograph for a variety of materials-related research, including powder particle shape and pores inside metallic parts. It now wants to be able to extend this system to accommodate experimental equipment inside the instrument, to be able to perform tomography as a function of applied strain via an internal load cell. This equipment involves a cable management system, since the sample revolves in X-ray tomography and any instrument that is applying strain to the sample will rotate with the sample. The cable connecting the internal equipment to the operating computer will also rotate, and so must be managed. An interface kit must also be installed to allow any internal experimental equipment to be properly interfaced with the Versa computers. This procurement does not include any internal experimental equipment such as a load cell, but only the infrastructure that will allow such equipment to be used. This equipment is only available from the manufacturer (Zeiss), since it must be specially adapted to the Zeiss equipment. To accommodate experimental equipment inside the X-ray tomograph, i.e. to be able to perform tomography as a function of applied strain via an internal load cell, requires a cable management system and an interface kit. Samples revolve in X-ray tomography and any instrument that is applying strain to the sample will rotate with the sample. The cable connecting the internal equipment to the operating computer will also rotate, and so must be managed. An interface kit must also be installed to allow any internal experimental equipment to be properly interfaced with the Versa computers, so that experimental measurements like strain can be properly aligned with X-ray scanning. The contractor shall provide all support for project oversight, administration and technical execution. Sole Source determination is based on the market research that shows only one vendor can comply to this critical process that meets all the NIST technical requirements. The NAICS code 541511 - Custom computer programming services, and the Small Business Size Standard is $27.5M will be used. DELIVERABLES: This is a Performance Based Contract with the following deliverables/objectives: Description Quantity Due Date Cable management and interface system One (1) 30 days after award of this requirement. Installation of the analytical instrument Once 45 days after award of this requirement. Operations and maintenance manual One (1) At time of installation Training (if necessary) of NIST personnel at NIST, Boulder, CO Once At time of installation.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: NIST, 325 Broadway, Boulder, Colorado, 80305, United States
- Zip Code: 80305
- Zip Code: 80305
- Record
- SN04477837-W 20170421/170419234855-f3485431e7f2c3a637cc727190c94b97 (fbodaily.com)
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