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66 -- DIFFERAENTIAL SCANNING CALIROMETER (DCS) SYSTEM SOL F0865197Q2934 DUE 080197 POC Mark Santasiero, 850-882-8280, Contract Specialist; Lonnie L. Oswalt, Contracting Officer The Air Force Development Test Center intends to solicit, negotiate and award a sole source,firm-fixed priced contract under Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 12, Acquisition of Commercial Items, to TA Instruments, Inc., 109 Lukens Dr., New Castle, DE 19720, for the delivery of a Differential Scanning Calorimeter (DCS) System consisting of 2920 DSC module 915000.901 and 3200 Thermal Analyst Controller 924200.901. The DSC module shall be capable of differential heat flow analysis and temperature modulation, and equipped with dual sample and single reference cell and accessory kit 915400.901. The temperature range shall be -180 to 725 C, reproducibility +/-0.05 C, and accuracy +/-0.1 C. The sensitivity of the DSC module shall be a minimum of 0.2 microwatt, accuracy and precision a minimum of 1.0 percent, with a noise level not greater than 0.1 microwatts, enabling meaningful analysis of highly energetic hazardous materials and explosive samples as small as 100 micrograms (10 g). Aluminum sample pan covers, indium and saphire calibration materials included. A quench cooling accessory 900674.901 for rapid liquid nitrogen cooling and hermetic sample pans will be included. Analyst controller shall consist of an MS-DOS/Windows, RMX, OS/2 Warp 3.0 operating systems capable 64 bit Pentium processor based Personal Computer with 32 MB RAM, CD-ROM drive, SCSI-2 Drive adapter, 6-32 bit expansion slots, mouse, keyboard, 1 parallel & 2 serial ports, operating at a minimum clock rate of 166 MHz, and accessory kit 926402.901. Provisions for storage of data to 2 Gigabyte SCSI-2 hard disk drive and 2.44 megabyte floppy disk, and output to 17 inch diagonal Monitor 995170.901 and peripheral Cannon BJC-4000 bubble jet printer/plotter device 925001.901 with 360x360 dot per inch color/720x360 B&W resolution 5 page/min printing and auto feeder, for full color hard copy shall be included. The analyst controller shall be capable of, but not limited to, routines necessary to complete data acquisition, capture, reduction and analysis for standard Differential Scanning Calorimetry, single and multiple scan kinetics, heat capacity, Thermal Gravimetric Analysis (TGA), Thermal Mechanical Analysis (TMA), oxidative stability, TGA kinetics, Differential Mechanical Analysis (DMA), calimetric parity, and isothermal kinetics. Controller analyst software and library multiple Systems Kit; 926401.901, and computer accessory kit 926200.901 to complete required tasks shall be included. On site installation, operation, operator training shall be provided. Operating and instruction manuals shall be included. Technical point of contact is Stephen Aubert, 850-882-4212. Contracting questions may be directed to SSgt Mark Santasiero at 850-882-8280. Replies to this synopsis should be provided to AFDTC/PKOS, 205 W. D Ave, Suite 541, Eglin AFB FL 32542-6862. All responsible sources may submit an offer which will be considered. (No contract award will be made on the basis of bids/proposals received in response to this synopsis). Firms responding to this synopsis should reference F08651-97-Q-2934 and indicate whether they are or are not a small disadvantaged business concern as defined in FAR 52.219-1. The Air Force reserves the right to consider a small business set-aside based on responses hereto. Requests for copies of this solicitation must be in writing and may be faxed to 850-882-9442. Telephone requests will not be honored. See Note 22. (0198)

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