SOURCES SOUGHT
95 -- Welding of neutron and gamma ray shields
- Notice Date
- 5/15/2018
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 332999
— All Other Miscellaneous Fabricated Metal Product 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-SS-18-23
- Archive Date
- 6/13/2018
- Point of Contact
- Robert J. Singman, Phone: 3019756388
- E-Mail Address
-
robert.singman@nist.gov
(robert.singman@nist.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The NIST Center for Neutron Research (NCNR) is a large laboratory facility consisting of a suite of instruments that measure the interaction of radiation with various materials to study their structure and properties. The NCNR maintains a wide variety of instruments that allows great flexibility in the type of samples and phenomena that can be studied and measured. One common requirement on all instrumentation is radiation shielding, both to protect personal safety and to ensure the validity and purity of the data collected on the instruments. Shielding varies according to the type and magnitude of the radiation being targeted, but in terms of volume, the vast majority of shielding consists of tanks or shells that are filled with a mixture of steel shot and paraffin wax. To remain a state-of-the-art neutron scattering facility, the NCNR continues to evolve by adding new instrumentation and upgrading existing instrumentation. Part of this evolution is a continual, but highly variable need for new shielding. NIST is seeking responses from all responsible sources, including large, foreign, and small businesses. Small businesses are defined under the associated NAICS code for this effort, 332999, as those domestic sources having 750 employees or less. Please include your company's size classification and socio-economic status in any response to this notice. This requirement deals with the need for a mechanism for welding radiation shielding. The requirements can be divided shield tanks (empty shield tanks and filled shield tanks), solid shields, painting and vacuum vessels. The Contractor shall provide weldment services, on an as needed basis, in accordance with design specifications to be provided by NIST. All shields are custom made to the engineering drawings provided by NCNR engineering staff. The morphology of these shields varies widely and requires the ability to acquire, cut, machine or roll complex shapes from raw material. The composition of the shield tanks may be mild steel, stainless steel, or aluminum in thickness ranging from 1/8 inch to 4 inches. In addition, some fixtures on these shields may be as thick as 2.5 inches. Some weldments may be required to be painted. Furthermore, some weldments may require filling. Instructions to Responders: Interested parties that can meet or exceed the specifications for a two-dimensional position sensitive neutron detector are requested to email a detailed capabilities statement describing their abilities to robert.singman@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 product or capabilities including any specification that cannot be met or is deemed close to but not meeting an identified specification. 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 components for which specifications are provided. 2.Name of company(ies) that are authorized to sell the system components, their addresses, and a point of contact for the company (name, phone number, fax 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 the two-dimensional position sensitive neutron detector 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.
- Web Link
-
FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/DOC/NIST/AcAsD/AMD-SS-18-23/listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Address: 100 Bureau Drive, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 20899, United States
- Zip Code: 20899
- Zip Code: 20899
- Record
- SN04922784-W 20180517/180515230614-482df68ce6ccf526abd3f96e19ac14d0 (fbodaily.com)
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