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66 -- PERSONNEL WHOLE-BODY CONTAMINATION MONITOR AND BACKGROUND MONITORING PROGRAM SOL 52SBNB6C9121 POC Brenda K. Lee (301) 975-6394 The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), intends to negotiate with Eberline Instruments P.O. Box 2108, Airport Road, Sante Fe, NM 87504-2108, on a sole source basis to acquire an Eberline Model PM-7 Personnel Whole-body Contamination Monitor (portal type) 1 ea and a Background Monitoring Program (PGMPM7LOG) 1 ea. Also includes installation/setup at NIST, warranty for one year to include parts and labor and training. Required delivery within 30 days after contract is awarded. FOB Destination. This is a DOS program that obtains background information from a single PM-7 by non-invasive monitoring of the PM-7's internal RS-485 bus. A three-wire splice into the bus terminates at the PC's serial port by way of a commercially-available RS-485-to-RS-232 converter, which will be supplied by Eberline. A fourth wire that is tied to the alarm lamp circuit by way of an interface circuit will provide an additional input into the serial port for identification of contamination alarms. The alarms will be counted and logged by date and time, but no count rate information will be available. The primary task of the program is a serial communications interrupt service routine that continuously ''listens'' to the bus messages, determining which messages bear the signature of the ''GET READING'' task. When the PM-7 is in its normal background updating mode, each of the six detectors reports its background count rate approximately once per second. This information is captured by the monitoring program and used to maintain an array of 1440 one-minute averages that are kept in a FIFO buffer representing the most-recent 24 hours of information. The one-minute average shall be a user-modifiable variable, down to one second and up to one hour. The personnel contamination monitor shall be a microcomputer based, stand-and-count mode or walk-through mode portal monitor. The whole-body count shall be accomplished in a one step process whereby the user enters and positions himself in the monitor for a single count. As a minimum, the following areas shall be monitored: head, bottom of feet, upper and lower left and right sides. The detector of the whole-body contamination monitor shall be solid plastic scintillator type. Interested offerors may identify their interest and capability to respond to the requirements by submitting a capability statement. The capability statement must provide adequate information and qualifications of your ability to provide the requested supplies in order for the Government to consider whether to open this request for competition. However, all capability statements received within 45 days after date of preparation of this synopsis, will be considered by the Government. See Note Numbered 22. (0109)

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