SOLICITATION NOTICE
66 -- NOTICE OF INTENT TO SOLE SOURCE: Two-channel Ultra Low Current Amplifier (ULCA-1/2)
- Notice Date
- 3/19/2018
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 334515
— Instrument Manufacturing for Measuring and Testing Electricity and Electrical Signals
- 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
- SB1341-18-RQ-0288
- Archive Date
- 4/17/2018
- Point of Contact
- Tracy M Bisson, Phone: 3019758448
- E-Mail Address
-
tracy.bisson@nist.gov
(tracy.bisson@nist.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- DESCRIPTION: The United States Department of Commerce (DOC), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Acquisition Management Division (AMD) intends to negotiate a firm fixed price purchase order, on a sole source basis, with Magnicon GmbH, Barkhausenweg 11, Hamburg, Germany 22339 for the purchase of a CCC Electronics Package for NIST's Quantum Measurement Division (QMD). The statutory authority for this sole source acquisition is FAR 13.106-1(b) by the authority of FAR Part 13 Simplified Acquisition Procedures. The NIST Fundamental Electrical Measurement group realizes and maintains the unit or resistance, the Ohm, for the United States. To support and verify the use of high resistance standards in low current metrology requires instrumentation to source and measured dc currents in the range 1 fA to 1 µA with low uncertainty. The proposed acquisition is to purchase a two-channel ultra low current amplifier (ULCA-1/2). The instrument will be used to source and measure dc currents in the range 1 fA to 1 µA with low uncertainty traceable to electrical units. The instrument will be used to calibrate picoammeters, electrometers, sub fempto-amp sourcemeters, low dc current meters, voltage-resistor sources, current to voltage converters, and electrochemical transducers. The flexibility of both current measurement and current generation modes in one instrument over a wide low-current range provides great flexibility and easier handling than alternative techniques. Magnicon GmbH is the sole provider for this product. The reason is the only known instrument able to both source and measure low currents in the 1 uA to 1 fA range. As these are required in order to make the needed measurement for the resistance standards in low current metrology Magnicon GmbH is the only manufacturer and distributor of the required ULCA-1/2 in the world. Delivery shall be FOB Destination, Gaithersburg, MD, and be completed in accordance with the Contractor's commercial schedule. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this acquisition is 334515 and the size standard is 750 employees. No solicitation package will be issued. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive quotations; however, all responsible sources interested may identify their interest and capability to respond to this requirement. The Government will consider responses received by 1:00 p.m. Eastern on April 2, 2018. Inquiries will only be accepted via email to tracy.bisson@nist.gov. No telephone requests will be honored. 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 in the future.
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