SOURCES SOUGHT
66 -- Disk Chopper Time of Flight Spectrometer (DCS) Upgrade
- Notice Date
- 5/4/2017
- 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-SS17-36
- Archive Date
- 5/30/2017
- 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 capable of providing signal processing electronics for an array of helium 3 proportional counters in a neutron time of flight application for the NIST Center for Neutron Research (NCNR). The purpose of this procurement is to obtain signal processing electronics for an array of helium 3 proportional counters in a neutron time of flight application. This electronics package will be fed discriminated logic signals from the proportional counter preamplifiers. This electronics package shall timestamp these logic pulses and present them for high speed readout by a NIST-developed software application. NCNR is seeking signal processing electronics systems that can meet or exceed the following specifications: 1. Signal inputs a. Logic inputs with selectable termination (50Ω, 1 kΩ, open) b. Input connections are coaxial Lemo 00 2. Readout a. Uses open communication standards (Ethernet/TCP, Fiber Channel) b. Scalable to 960+ channels c. Capable of assigning unique identifier (or "Pixel ID") to each channel as well as a timestamp 3. Timestamping a. The system must be able to associate a timestamp with each neutron event (absolute or relative to a provided reference signal) b. Timestamp assigned to either leading or falling edge of input logic pulse c. Time resolution is minimally 1 microsecond d. Dynamic range of timestamping is 60 s or greater e. A solution that can produce absolute timestamps per the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 1588 (Precision Time Protocol) standard 4. Throughput a. The system must be able to handle 10,000 events per second per channel without any perceptible downtime b. The system must be able to handle minimum of 300,000 events per second over the entire collection of channels 5. Mechanical a. Individual modules of the system must reside in an enclosure or standard bus enclosure that will fit in a standard Electronic Industries Association (EIA)-310 relay rack After the results of this market research are obtained and analyzed, NIST may conduct a competitive procurement and subsequently award a contract. If at least two qualified small businesses are identified during this market research stage, then any competitive procurement that resulted will be conducted as a small business set-aside. NIST is seeking responses from all responsible sources, including large, foreign, and small businesses. NIST is particularly interested in identifying small businesses capable of providing adequate systems. Small businesses are defined under the associated NAICS code for this effort, 334516, as those domestic sources having employees of less than or equal to 1,000 employees. Please include your company's size classification and socio-economic status in any response to this notice. Companies capable of providing a system that meets the needs of NCNR are requested to email a detailed report describing their product's abilities to cory.worley@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 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 for which specifications are provided. 2. Name of company(ies) that are authorized to sell the sytem components, their addresses, and a point of contact for the company (name, phone 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 is 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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