SOURCES SOUGHT
66 -- Aluminum Compressed Gas Cylinders
- Notice Date
- 4/6/2018
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 325120
— Industrial Gas 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
- NIST-MML-18-SS11
- Archive Date
- 5/1/2018
- Point of Contact
- Latish Walker, Phone: 3019750474
- E-Mail Address
-
latish.walker@nist.gov
(latish.walker@nist.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Sources Sought Notice Aluminum Compressed Gas Cylinders The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) located in Gaithersburg, MD is seeking vendors that can provide Aluminum Compressed Gas Cylinders, as described below. This announcement is not a Request for Proposals or Quotes (RFP/RFQ) and does not commit the Government to award a contract now or in the future. The information contained in this notice is a DRAFT only and, as such, is subject to change prior to issuance of a solicitation. No solicitation is available at this time. After results of this market research are obtained and analyzed, NIST may conduct a competitive or non-competitive procurement and subsequently award a contract. If at least two qualified small business sources are identified during this market research stage, this acquisition may be solicited as a small business set-aside. NIST is seeking responses from all responsible sources, including large and small businesses (SB, SDB, WOSB, HUB Zone, SDVOSB, and VOSB). This requirement is assigned a NAICS code of 325120 (Industrial Gas Manufacturing), with a Small Business Size Standard of 1,000 employees. Interested business organizations that believe they may be able to meet NIST's requirement detailed below should respond to this notice with a narrative demonstrating their ability to meet NIST's requirement. Contractor's may provide supplemental information at their discretion. Responses should be submitted to latish.walker@nist.gov by 4:00PM ET on Monday, April 16,2018. The DRAFT requirements are provided below: BACKGROUND - The Gas Sensing Metrology Group (GSMG) of the Chemical Sciences Division is responsible for developing, critically evaluating, and applying techniques for the identification and measurement of gaseous species in the atmospheres (urban, rural, and pristine) and process streams (automobile and stack). The group applies these techniques to certification of gas standards in support of industries responding to U.S. and state regulations, environmental concerns, fairness in trade issues, and global climate change. The primary concern is to provide the infrastructure for high-quality, traceable gas measurements, allowing better decision-making by industry, regulators, government officials, research scientists, and the public. Measurement services are provided through the development of reference materials including NIST Traceable Reference Materials (NTRMs), Reference Materials (RMs), Standard Reference Materials (SRMs). The GSMG prepares and verifies primary standard mixtures (PSM) through gravimetry. These standards are used in the above-mentioned certifications and for participation in worldwide comparisons of standards coordinated by the Bureau International des Poids et Measures (BIPM). A gas mixture of increasing importance is carbon dioxide in air. Due to the balances available for use, these PSMs can only be prepared in small (5 and 6 L internal volume) cylinders providing a (maximum) 0.73 m3 of useable mixture and must be replaced frequently at great cost in time and material (which is eventually passed on to the customer). The GSMG needs to purchase carbon dioxide in air working standard (WS) gas mixtures in large volume (47L) aluminum compressed gas cylinders. These WSs will be certified using the PSMs and be used to support its production of SRMs, NTRMs as well as for standards used for international comparisons and other certified compress gases thereby preserving the PSMs. The instrumentation used in the comparison of these standards is very sensitive to the amount of argon in the samples. Through testing of mixes with different amounts of argon but the same amount of carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide it was determined that small variations in the argon content would lead to greater analytical uncertainty than was acceptable to meet the desired total uncertainty of this project. Because of this effect, we have been asked by both the BIPM and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) to use whole, natural or real [not blended or synthetic] air as the balance gas for our standards. Although many specialty gas vendors can produce synthetic air [air that is blended using argon, oxygen and nitrogen], the homogeneity as well as the accuracy in the argon concentration of these mixtures may not meet the specifications required. SCOPE OF WORK The Contractor shall provide eight (8) aluminum [size 47 L internal volume] compressed gas cylinders with brass (tapered thread) Ceodeux CGA-590 valves containing carbon dioxide [CO2] and methane [CH4] in air at the concentration levels listed below [± 2 % blend tolerance] Quantity CO2 CH4 1 900µmol/mol 2.75 µmol/mol 1 800 µmol/mol 2.5 µmol/mol 1 600 µmol/mol 2.25 µmol/mol 1 500 µmol/mol 2.1 µmol/mol 1 420 µmol/mol 2.0 µmol/mol 1 400 µmol/mol 1.9 µmol/mol 1 390 µmol/mol 1.8 µmol/mol 1 380 µmol/mol 1.75 µmol/mol The balance air must be dry, purified, whole, natural or real [not synthetic or blended] air with the following specification: Oxygen: (20.9 ± 0.1) % mol/mol Argon: (0.93 ± 0.02) % mol/mol Nitrogen: (78.17 ± 0.12) % mol/mol Carbon Monoxide: < 10 nmol/mol Other Hydrocarbons: < 10 nmol/mol as methane Water vapor: < 1 µmol/mol Oxides of Nitrogen: < 1 nmol/mol The Contractor shall provide six (6) new and unused Luxfer N060 or Catalina I60 aluminum compressed gas cylinders [size 10 L internal volume] with Ceodeux tapered thread brass CGA-590 valves filled with 25 psig of scrubbed whole, natural or real [not blended or synthetic] air [See balance air specifications above], and The Contractor shall provide eight (8) new and unused Luxfer N150 or Catalina I150 aluminum compressed gas cylinders [nominal size 30 L internal volume] with Ceodeux tapered thread brass CGA-590 valves filled with 2000 psig of scrubbed whole, natural or real [not blended or synthetic] air [See balance air specifications above].
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- Place of Performance
- Address: National Institute of Standards and Technology, 100 Bureau Drive, Building 301, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 20899-0001, United States
- Zip Code: 20899-0001
- Zip Code: 20899-0001
- Record
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