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66 -- SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE SYSTEM - PART 3 SOL SFO3-051357 POC Glen M. Williams, Contracting Officer, who may be contacted at (216) 433-2885, Mail Stop 500-306 THE CONTINUATION OF THE SPECIFICATIONS FOR THE SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE SYSTEM FROM THE SYNOPSIS PART 1 AND PART 2 ARE AS FOLLOWS: Item 3. The contractor shall provide an X-ray Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy Systemcompatible with Item 1 and shall have the following features and0 capabilities; A. X-rayDetector, 1. Design of the x-ray detector shall provide an x-ray collection geometry of aminimum eighteen (18) degree take off angle and 0.15 steradians solid angle on a thirty (30) millimeter square active area detector crystal. 2. X-ray detector shall have an energy resolutionbetter than 139 eV at manganese K alpha and 1000 counts per second. X-ray detector shall be capable of detecting boron. 3. X-ray detector shall include an automatic motor driven mechanism for placing the detector in the analytical position. Design shall prohibit x-ray detector from damaging STEM. 4. The x-ray detector shall be automatically protected from high flux x-ray bombardment above 100,000 counts per second by a motor driven device behind a tungsten shutter. Reinsertion of the x-ray detector shall be provided by remote control. 5. X-ray detector shall be temperature cyclable, and can be kept at room temperature when not in use with no loss of performance. 6. X-ray detector shall in no way degrade the imaging performance of STEM in both the analytical position and retracted position. B. X-ray Analyzer/Computer: 1. The X-ray Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy System shall include an Apple Power Macintosh computer with a minimum of a 100 mHz processor, 48 Mb of memory, 1.4 Mb floppy drive, 1.2 Gb hard drive, removable 1.0 Gb drive, CD-ROM drive, network capability, keyboard, trackball, color ink jet printer, and a seventeen (17) inch color monitor. 2. Application software shall be included for x-ray spectra acquisition and analysis. Full qualitative and quantitative software shall be included with ZAF, Phi Rho Z, and thin film matrix correction algorithms. 3. Application software shall be included for electron pattern interpretation and analysis. 4. Hardware and software for STEM interface and beam control shall be included. Digital image TV-rate frame capture, slow scan collection, display, image enhancement, image archiving, x-ray dot mapping, image analysis and measurement shall be included. Item 4. Installation and Training 1. Contractor shall furnish all labor, material, tools, transportation, and lodging for installation and will provide a list of installation site requirements for the system to the Contracting Officer at least 2 weeks prior to delivery. 2. Contractor shall provide at least 1 set of operation and software manuals including electrical and mechanical drawings for the system. 3. After installation of the system, the Contractor shall demonstrate system performance meets all specifications listed above. 4. Installation shall include alignment of Imaging Filter at 200 KV and at one additional voltage specified by the Government during installation. 5. The Contractor shall furnish a minimum of forty-eight (48) hours of on-site training of the operation and maintenance of the System upon completion of the installation of the system. Delivery to Cleveland, OH 44135. The F.O.B. and acceptance point is NASA Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, OH 44135. Delivery shall be made on or before September 6, 1996. Offerors must include a completed copy of Standard Form (SF) 1449, Solicitation/Contract/Order for Commercial Items, with their offer. The provision at FAR 52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors - Commercial, applies to this acquisition. Award will be made to that responsible offeror, 1) whose offer meets all requirements in the specifications, 2) who proposed price is determined to be the lowest overall cost to the Government, and 3) whose past performance record is satisfactory. Offerors must include a completed copy of the provision at FAR 52.212-3, Offeror Representations and Certifications Commercial Items, with their offer. The clause at FAR 52.212-4, Contract Terms and Conditions - Commercial Items, applies to this acquisition. The clause at FAR 52.212-5, Contract Terms and Conditions Required To Implement Statutes or Executive Orders - Commercial Items, applies to this acquisition. Further, the following clauses which are cited in FAR 52.212-5 apply to this acquisition: 52.203-6, Restriction on Subcontractor Sales to the Government, with Alternate 1; 52.203-10, Price or Fee Adjustment for Illegal or Improper Activity; 52.219-8, Utilization of Small Disadvantaged and Women-Owned Small Business Subcontracting Plan; 52.219-9, Small, Small Disadvantaged and Women-Owned Small Business Subcontracting Plan; 52.219-14, Limitation on Subcontracting; 52.222-26, Equal Opportunity; 52.222-35, Affirmative Action for Special Disabled and Vietnam Era Veterans; 52.222-36, Affirmative Action for Handicaped Workers; 52.222-37, Employment Reports on Special Disabled Veterans and Veterans of the Vietnam Era; 52.222-3, Buy American Act - Supplies; 52.225-9, Buy American Act - Balance of Payments Program; 52.225-18, European Union Sanction for End Products; 52.225-21, Buy American Act - North American Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act - Balance of Payments Program; 52.247-64, Preference for Privately Owned U.S.-Flag Commercial Vessels. The form, provisions and clauses cited in this SFO reside on the World Wide Web. The URL for the SF1449 in ASCII text format is http://www.lerc.nasa.gov/WWW/Procure/sf1449.txt. The URL for the SF1449 in Rich Text Format (RTF) is http://www.lerc.nasa.gov/WWW/Procure/sf1449.rtf. The URL for FAR 52.212-3 is http://www/lerc.nasa.gov/WWW/Procurement/rep_cert.txt. Links to the remaining provisions and clauses are maintained under ''Helpful Procurement Tools'', ''Federal Procurement Assistance Sites'' on the Lewis Research Center procurement Home Page, URL http://www.lerc.nasa.gov/WWW/Procure/home.htm. Offers are due to the Contracting Officer specified above by 4:30 pm, local time, 15 calendar days after posting/publication of this SFO. Offers may be submitted via mail to the address specified above or via FAX at (216) 433-5489. Any concerns or issues relative to this procurement should be addressed to the Contracting Officer identified above. However, an ombudsman has also been appointed to hear concerns from offerors, potential offerors and contractors if necessary. Interested parties may call the installation ombudsman, Dr. Julian Earls, at (216) 433-3014. Concerns, issues, disagreements and recommendations which cannot be resolved at the installation may be referred to the NASA ombudsman, Tom Luedtke, at (202) 358-2090. See Numbered Note(s): 12 (0165)

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