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99 -- CRYSTMET DATABASE ON MAGNETIC TAPE SOL 53SBNB760098 DUE 041597 POC Keith Kennedy, (301) 975-6325, C.O Sandra L. Febach, (301) 975-6326. WEB: NIST Contracts Homepage, http://www.nist.gov/admin/od/contract/contract.htm. E-MAIL: NIST Contracts Office, Contract@nist.gov. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) intends to acquire from the database of Toth Information Systems, Inc., Gloucester, Ontario, the non-exclusive license to crystallographic data on the structure of metals, alloys, intermetallics and minerals, as presently contained in the CRYSTMET database. The crystallographic data includes cell parameters, space groups, and x,y,z positional parameters as well as pertinent chemical, physical and bibliographic information. The NIST also requires evaluation and processing software to load the data into NIST databases. The database contains approximately 50,000 entries, of which approximately 25,000 include refined structural parameters, and exhaustively covers the literature from 1913. Scientific editing of the abstracted entities, consisting of numerous automated and manual checks, has been done to ensure consistency with the related studies, to assign structure types where necessary, and to help guarantee the accuracy of the data. The CRYSTMET database and its derivative products will have many applications, including materials design, properties prediction and compound identification. No limitations on the number and types of derivative products are included. One each. FOB destination desired within four weeks from contract award, required within 12 weeks from contract award. This notice is not a request for competitive quotes. NIST intends to solicit one source under authority of FAR 6.302-1, which authorizes contracting without providing for full and open competition when only one responsible source and no other exists which will satisfy NIST requirements. However, interested parties may identify to the contracting officer their written interest and capability to satisfy the Government requirement within 15 days after the date of this synopsis. The capability statement must provide adequate information on supplying this database and qualifications needed to deliver this database. NIST must receive all of the above to determine whether to open this requirement for competition. 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. (0087)

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