Officer in Charge, Fleet and Industrial Supply Center, Norfolk, Detachment, Washington, Washington Navy Yard, Bldg. 200, 901 M. Street SE, Washington, DC

67 -- DIGITAL CCD CAMERA SYSTEM SOL N00600-95-R-2374 DUE 073195 POC For a copy of the solicitation, contact the Customer Services Center at (202) 433-2951 or you may fax in your request (202) 433-9569. For additional information, contact: DANIEL J. WALT, CODE PE5P, 202-433-5282. Contracting Officer, ILLONA WILLIAMS, 202-433-4264 The Navy's Fleet and Industrial Supply Center Norfolk, Detachment Washington requires purchase and maintenance for a digital CCD camera system for a 20-inch reflecting telescope for the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD. This procurement is 100% set aside for small business concerns. SEE Note 1. This CCD camera system must be a Photometrics, Ltd. system or equivalent. This system must include an imaging CCD (Photometrics, Ltd. TK1024AB2G1-M chip or equal). The imaging CCD must have all the following: (a)1024 x 1024 pixels or greater, thinned, back illuminated, scientific grade; (b) Chip defects not to exceed 40 individual pixel defects, 4 cluster defects, and 2 column defects; (c) Pixel size shall be no less than 12 microns and no greater than 24 microns; (d) Full well capacity not less than 350K electrons; (e) Dark current not to exceed 12 electrons/s at -40 degrees Celsuius; (f) Metachrome II (or equal) ultraviolet coating (CCD chip shall be sensitized with an ultraviolet enchancement coating which provides a spectral response of at least 30% in the wavelength region 250-550 nm); (g) Vendor must be able to demonstrate quantum efficiency greater than 70% throughout the range between 550-750 nm and at least 30% up to 950nm and down to 250nm; (h) 16-bit pixel data at 40K pixels/s; readout noise not to exceed 7 electrons. This system must also include a camera (Photometrics, Ltd. ATC200L-16/40 or equivalent). This camera must meet all of the following requirements: (a) The camera shall provide pixel analog-to-digital conversion of no less than 16-bits per pixel at a scan rate of not less than 40,000 pixels per second; (b) Camera readout noise not to exceed 7 electrons per pixel; (c) Thermoelectrically cooled camera head, capable of maintaining the temperature of the CCD below -45 degrees C during continuous operation (vendor to provide liquid circulation heat exchanger and pump with quick-release valves); (d) Removable electromechanical shutter of sufficient aperature to provide unvignetted operation of the CCD detector; and (e) Camera electronics unit with temperature display. The vendor shall also provide a standard PC ISA bus interface for use in generic 386/486 type personal computers. Also, the proposed system must be able to interface with any standard VME workstation. If a separate interface unit must be used for VME control, the unit must be offered for sale to the general public at the time of the award of the unit. Such a unit is not included in this procurement. The system must also include image acquisition and processing software (both Photometrics, Ltd. PMIS image acquisition and processing software (Series 200) and Image200 image acquisition software, or equal). Vendor must provide 386/486 PC software which provides at a minimum the following operations: (a) Control of camera setup and formatting, image dimensions, gain; (b) Bias, dark frame and flat-field acquisition; (c) Median filtering, Sobel gradient, operation on user defined region of interest; (d) Plot intensity vs. position of arbitrary CCD row or column; (e) Plot histogram of intensity of image or region of interest; (f) Measurement of distance, in pixel coordinates; (g) Reading and writing of images in documentated disk format; (h) Gray scale and pseudocolor image display in windows environment; (i) Image scaling from 16-bit data to 8-bit display; (j) Interactive manipulation of display lookup tables; (k) Image debiasing, de-darking and flat-fielding; (l) Documentation specifying data structures with source code examples illustrating how the user can create new command-line interface functions, which will aid the user in porting the command line interface to a UNIX environment. Contractor must test CCD in camera to be supplied to the Naval Academy and guarantee CCD and camera system requirements specified above. Standard commercial test reports are required to be delivered with the system that show this testing. Contractor shall maintain all hardware and software in this procurement up to the OEM's (Original Equipment Manufacturer's) standands. The contractor shall offer maintenance on all items such that, if the Government exercises all options (each option shall be for a maximum of one year, and shall not cross fiscal years (fiscal years begin 1 October and end 30 September of each year)), all items shall be maintained under this contract (either under warranty or under regular maintenance) for a total of five (5) years. Maintenance for each item shall begin the day after the end of the contractors standard commercial warranty period. For hardware maintenance, maintenance shall include both preventative maintenance and repair of malfunction(s) (including CCD chip replacement, if necessary). Preventative maintenance (to be done at least annually) shall include pumping and baking the camera head, cleaning the external window as well as a full system retest and calibration. For item(s) in need of either kind of maintenance (preventative or repair of malfunction(s), the Government shall ship the item(s) to the contractor, who will perform the maintenance and then ship the item(s) back to the Government in time to be received by the Government within 30 days after the contractor received the item(s) for repair. All shipments shall be FOB Destination. (In other words, the Government shall pay for shipment of the item(s) from the Government to the contractor. The contractor will then pay for shipment of the items from the contractor to the Government.) For software maintenance, the contractor shall supply all current software updates to all software included in this procurement within 30 days of initial release. These updates shall include any new versions of the software that come out as well as error corrections to software already issued. Lastly, the contractor shall supply the Government with a toll-free telephone number that Government personnel can call for telephonic assistance in using the software. This toll-free number shall be staffed and available Monday through Friday form 0800 hours to 1700 hours. All items shall be delivered to the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD within 30 days of award. Acceptance of the items shall be within 30 days of delivery. The United States Naval Academy is an accredited, degree-granting educational institution and is generally eligible for vendors' educational discounts. The United States Naval Academy is also an agency of the United States Government and is generally eligible for government discounts and/or purchasing under General Services Administration contracts. (0164)

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