Commander, USAINSCOM SPT BN (PROV), Attn: IASB-DCO, 8825 Beulah Street, Fort Belvoir, VA 22060-5246

B -- SMM WAVE DEVICE/SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT & SIGNATURE SUPPORT SOL DAHC90-96-R-0014 DUE 053096 POC Linda Wallis, Contract Specialist, (703) 706-2779. The U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM) intends to establish a contract with the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA on a sole-source basis under FAR 6.302-1. The contractor shall provide support (to include materials, labor and facilities) in identifying, investigating, designing, developing, installing, fabricating, upgrading, and supplying other engineering assistance for one of a kind advanced submillimeter (SMM) wave semiconductor and superconductor devices/systems developed for and being used in the National Ground Intelligence Center (NGIC) Scaled Model Signature Measurements Facility (SSIMFAC). The contractor shall maintain a state-of-the-art level of expertise in all the technical areas required for the continuing advancement and development of these SMM wave devices/systems and related areas needed by NGIC to provide signatures to DoD elements. The contractor shall make recommendations as to the applicability of new techniques, algorithms, materials, devices, far-infrared (FIR) sources, FIR mixers, FIR receivers and other FIR technologies for use in the SSIMFAC and related signature analysis and production. The contractor, using the latest capabilities and techniques such as advanced network analysis, shall design, analyze, and predict the performance and operating characteristics of semiconductor devices and arrays (such as point contact mounting and planar type Schottky barrier diodes), low and high critical temperature superconductor junctions and arrays, mixer circuits, coupling structures, and antennae for SMM wave applications; and the integration or embedding of these items into circuits and configurations for FIR mixers, receivers and sources. The contractor shall fabricate, assemble, evaluate, test and characterize these semiconductor and superconductor devices/junctions and arrays for use as SMM wave mixers, multipliers, oscillators, receivers and sources in laboratory compact radar range applications. Fabrication capabilities such as: class 10000 clean room, submicron lithography, reactive ion etching, sputter deposition of metals, superconductors and insulators, and electron beam evaporation are required for the production of the FIR devices/junctions, circuits and related subsystems. Contractor device/junction/circuit testing, evaluation and characterization are required in the 160 GHz through 3.0 THz frequency range and should include, but not be limited to: capabilities and expertise in scanning electron microscopy, spectrum analysis, cryogenic and room temperature SMM wave spectra properties test stations and stable SMM wave multimilliwatt output level variable frequency sources such as CO2-FIR lasers or other FIR source based test facilities. FIR devices, instruments, software and hardware systems, algorithms, detectors, receivers, mixers, sources and other related systems designed, developed and fabricated using the described integrated capabilities shall be delivered, installed and demonstrated at government designated facilities. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals. Prospective contractors who believe they can perform this service shall provide specific and detailed technical documentation to support their claims and abilities within 15 days of this publication. The capabilities statement must be sufficiently detailed to enable evaluation of the prospective contractor's capability to perform the required services. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed contract based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the government. See Numbered Note(s): 22, 25. (0099)

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