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66 -- INSTRUMENTS AND LABORATORY EQUIPMENT SOL 53SBNB860024 DUE 033098 POC Contract Specialist, Keith Kennedy, (301) 975-6325; e-mail keith.kennedy@nist.gov WEB: NIST Contracts Homepage, http://www.nist.gov/admin/od/contract/contract.htm. E-MAIL: NIST Contracts Office, Contract@nist.gov. This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in Subpart 12.6, as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. The solicitation number is 53SBNB860024, and the solicitation is issued as a request for quotation. The standard industrial classification (SIC) is 5084 and the small business size standard is 500 employees . Federal Acquisition Circular 97-03 applies to this acquisition. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) intends to acquire from Laser Analytical Systems, Inc. (LASI), the following: CLIN 0001: one each, external actively stabilized ring resonator for generation of continuous wave frequency doubled laser light in ultraviolet. The external cavity frequency doubler shall possess the following capabilities: UV lasing wavelengths: 285-300 nm from 570-600 in the visible, 300-325 nm from 600-650 nm in the visible, 325-350 nm from 650-700 nm in the visible; fundamental wavelength coverage -- 560-625 nm in the visible, 625-700 nm in the visible; greater than 5% conversion efficiency to the UV of the fundamental input power that is over the full range specified above for molecular beam spectroscopic measurements; external cavity resonator for frequency doubling actively locked to the fundamental wave; method for frequency locking -- electro-optic modulation (EOM) technique on the fundamental wave; fundamental EOM wavelength coverage -- 410-850 nm.; single mode scan range while locked -- 40 GHz; external cavity scan rate in the fundamental -- 10 GHz/sec.; intensity stability of UV output power-within 5% of the fundamental pump input power stability; resonator transverse spatial mode -- TEM00; UV output polarization mode purity: linear, >10:1; UV output spatial mode profile -- elliptical, 8:1 without compensator; spherically symmetric gaussian with astigmatism compensator. Anticipated award date is April 10, 1998. Shipping terms: FOB destination, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Building 301, Receiving Room, Gaithersburg, MD, 20899 eight weeks after contract award. The NIST intends to solicit one source under authority of FAR 13.106-1(b)(1), which permits solicitation from one source if the contracting officer determines that the circumstances of the contract action deem only one source reasonably available. LASI's external cavity design is the only known design which meets all of the above specifications without giving rise to mode hops that destroy the system's single mode tunability over the relevant wavelength range. The UV conversion efficiency of greater than 5% is required for molecular beam spectroscopic measurements and is not possible by use of the intracavity designs. Therefore, the external cavity design is the only design which meets all of the above specifications. The provision at FAR 52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors-Commercial, applies to this acquisition. LASI shall include a completed copy of the provision at 52.212-3, Offeror Representations and Certifications-Commercial Items, with its offer. The clause at 52.212-4, Contract Terms and Conditions Commercial applies to this acquisition. The clause at 52.212-5, Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statutes or Executive Orders -- Commercial Items, applies to this acquisition and includes the following FAR clauses: FAR 52.222-26, Equal Opportunity; FAR 52.222-35, Affirmative Action for Special Disabled Veteran Era Veterans; FAR 52.222-36, Affirmative Action for Handicapped Workers; FAR 52.222-37, Employment Reports on Special Disabled Veterans and Veterans of the Vietnam Era; FAR 52.225-3, Buy American Act-Supplies; Department of Commerce Agency-Level Protest Procedures Level Above the Contracting Officer, which can be downloaded from the NIST external web page, the Internet address is http://www.nist.gov/admin/od/contract/protest.htm. LASI shall submit a quote for the frequency doubler, technical description or product literature, two copies of the most recent published price list and one completed copy of the provision at FAR 52.212-3. Offeror Representations and Certifications Commercial Items, which may be downloaded from the NIST external web page, the Internet address is http://www.nist.gov/admin/od/contract/repcert.htm. Submission shall be sent to the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Acquisition and Assistance Division, Building 301, Room B117, Gaithersburg MD 20899, ATTN: Keith Kennedy, Solicitation Number 53SBNB860024. Submission must be received by 3:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, March 30, 1998. The NIST will not consider an offer or modifications of the offer received at the address specified for the receipt of offers/quotes after the exact time specified for receipt of offers. The NIST will not accept a faxed quotation. See Numbered Note 1. (0077)

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