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B -- ENGINEERING EVALUATION OF MECHANICAL AND ELECTRICAL INVENTIONS SOL 52SBNB7C1022 DUE 121696 POC Linda Shariati (301) 975-5053 The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) intends to award a contract to Jacob Rabinow for expert engineering evaluation of the technical and commercial feasibility of inventions and innovations. The Contractor shall have a B.S. degree and eight years of experience in the areas of: (1) Mechanical Engineering, (2) Electrical Engineering and (3) Manufacturing Engineering. The Contractor shall provide independent confidential evaluations of a wide array of inventions submitted to the NIST, Office of Technology Innovation for review specifically in the areas of mechanical and electrical devices and during the first-stage level of evaluation. The Contractor shall review inventions, and the technical evaluations thereof by others, where there is a conflict of engineering judgements and provide an independent assessment and recommendation to the Director of the Office of Technology Innovation. The Contractor shall have experience in the technical areas of the inventions reviewed which includes but is not limited to: automatic transmissions, continuously-variable-transmissions, machine elements, mechanical devices, general machinery, hydraulic power systems, manufacturing processes, oil well tools & appurtenances, mechanical components of automobiles engines, electrical lighting systems, electric motors & generators, elector-mechanical devices, and materials selection. In addition, familiarity with innovation process, patenting process, entrepreneurship process and commercialization process is required. The Contractor shall conduct research and prepare educational materials appropriate for independent inventors, small businesses, or the Office of Technology Innovation staff regarding creativity, invention, protecting ideas, commercializing technology and the innovation process in the United States. The Contractor shall meet with the individual inventors whose inventions have been reviewed and provide technical assistance to the inventor, as appropriate and with the concurrence of the Director of the Office of Technology Innovation. This contract will be for a base period, which shall be from the date of contract award until September 30, 1997, and the contract will include three option years. The work shall be performed at the NIST Gaithersburg site. The Government will furnish the Contractor with workspace, a desk, a chair, a computer, a telephone, a printer, access to a copier, and access to a fax machine. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals. Requests for a copy of a solicitation package for this requirement will be disregarded. 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. Information received will normally be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. See Numbered Note 22 and Numbered Note 26. (0304)

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