Department of the Treasury, U.S. Customs Service, Procurement Division, Room 4210, 1301 Constitution Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20229

63 -- GAMMA RAY NUCLEAR RADIATION DETECTION SYSTEMS SOL n/a POC James Lieberman (202) 927-0435 The U.S. Customs Service in cooperation with the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Energy is planning to conduct a technical and operational assessment of gamma ray radiation detection equipment, hereafter referred to as the Radiation Detection Technology Assessment Program (RADTAP). The purpose of the evaluation is to assess the applicability, sensitivity and robustness of a diverse suite of gamma ray detection equipment. These assessments are intended to evaluate only commercially available or field prototype detection instruments under laboratory and simulated border scenarios which relate to operations normally performed by U.S. Customs personnel. The equipment evaluation will be conducted at a Department of Defense facility located near Hertford, North Carolina during the period of May 5 through May 16, 1997. Participation in the RADTAP will be within the sole discretion of and at no expense to the government. The desired suite of radiation detection equipment includes instruments that are: (a) Worn by personnel (pager type, fanny pack, etc.); (b) Hand held; (c) Man portable; (d) Small portal systems. ( Due to the limited time frame of the evaluation, small portal systems must be limited to those that do not require installation of permanent footings or frame work and can be installed and made fully operational within one hour. Large portal systems will be addressed at a later time.); (e) Man portable, room temperature spectrometer instruments that employ read out or display capability that can be interpreted by non-technical personnel. Gamma ray spectrometers that employ algorithms providing an operator with non-complex verbal isotopic analysis results such as SNM, medical, industrial, etc. are highly desirable. A requirement for spectral matching by the operator is not acceptable. All detection equipment, with the exception of spectrometers, must exhibit a minimum sensitivity of 20 micro R/hour as provided by a Cesium 137 calibration point source at a distance of 1 meter. No conclusions or recommendations will be issued based on the quantitative and qualitative test results. However, the results of this program will be provided to government agencies. All respondents to this notice will be provided with detailed information related to the parameters of the assessment program. Due to scheduling limitations all interested parties are encouraged to respond to this notice by requesting a RADTAP information package within 15 days of publication of this notice. Written requests only to the POC shown above. (0041)

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