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66 -- LASER FILM PROCESSOR SOL CC-95-10 POC Ann Argaman, Contract Specialist, or Patrick Williams, Contracting Officer (301)496-3704. This is a Notice of Intent that The National Institutes of Health under the authority of 41 USC 253(c)(1) intends to negotiate and award a sole source contract to Polaroid Medical Image Systems to furnish a Helios Laser film processor and provide orientation and training on the use and operation of the system. The following are the Government's minimum requirements: It must be a fully automated (digitized) dry imaging process that uses extremely high resolution lasers and a rendering technique to generate a precise digital gray scale onto non-silver film. It must produce films with sharpness and clarity at 300 pixels per inch and be capable of producing subtle tone detail with at lease 4,320 shades of gray. It must have digital grayscale output of at least 256 shades. It must also have tonescales optimized for rendering the image content of specific medical imaging modalities such as ultrasound, nuclear medicine and fluoroscopic applications. It must allow high throughput, 90 second print time, and eliminate darkroom, processors, and wet chemicals. It must have the ability to store the images in memory to be recalled later. It must have self-diagnostic capability to alert the operator of an impending failure before it occurs. These should be read by service personnel through a modem, thereby minimizing down time. The system must accept multiple (at lease 6) inputs and interface with existing scanner systems. The system must have the ability to be configured to receive images stored on a removable disk such as a floppy disk, Bernoulli disk or optical disk. The system must allow preferential printing of a page if it is urgently needed, regardless of its order in the printing queue. All responses must be written and received within 45 calendar days from the published date of this notice. Oral communication is not acceptable and will not be honored. A statement of Work is available upon request. Responses requesting the solicitation without providing the required documentation shall not be considered. There is no solicitation document. Concerns that respond to this notice will be considered only if furnishing clear and convincing documentation demonstrating their ability to meet, at a minimum the stated requirements. Written responses should contain sufficient technical information and a description of the proposed system to be supplied which meets the requirements in order to permit agency analysis to establish a bonafide capability to meet the stated requirements and should be directed to Ann Argaman at the address above. A determination by the Government to open the requirement to competition based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. The Government will not pay for preparation or submission of any information submitted in response to this synopsis. See Numbered Note(s): 22. (0163)

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