U.S. Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation, J. Edgar Hoover Building, Rm 6875, 935 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., Washington, DC 20535-0001

66 -- INSTRUMENTS AND LABORATORY EQUIPMENT SOL RFQ 897830 DUE 033099 POC Edith M. Young, Contract Specialist 202-324-8809 17. This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in FAR Subpart 12.6, as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; bids are being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued. The solicitation document and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular (FAC) 97-09. This solicitation is under the Simplified Acquisition Procedures (SAP) for Small Business-Small Purchase Set-Aside. The Standard Industrial Classification is 3599, and the Business Size Standard is 500 employees. This will be a Firm-Fixed price contract for the acquisition of the following Brand Name (LPKF) or Equal items. All items will be required in a quantity of one (1). 1. Protomat93S Milling Machine and accessories or equal 2. A.12 and A.15 Starter Packages or equal. 3. A.42 Vacuum System or equal. 4. P.33 Mini-contact plating system or equal. 5. P.44 Multi press System or equal. 6. 101486 Multi press Table or equal. 7. 101243 Multi layer Materials Set or equal. 8. Training for minimum of 4 individuals. 9. One year maintenance after warranty expires. The proposed systems shall produce printed circuit boards by milling away unwanted copper from a variety of copper coated materials used in the electronics industry. Due to material choices available the system shall be suited for radio-frequency (RF) circuits. The system shall provide smaller printed line widths, line spaces, smaller sized pads, and holes greatly reducing the overall circuit board size. The proposed system shall have the capability to make multi layer boards and use reliable chemical through-plating process for connectivity between layers. The following are the minimum salient characteristics for this equipment. 1. Uses mill tools to remove unwanted cooper; 2. Can produce boards 11" by 14" or larger; 3.Shall through plate boards 8"x13" or larger. 4. Uses 1/8" collet for holding milling anddrill tools; 5. Uses standard 1/8" shank drill and mill tools; 6. Minimum trace width of .004"or less; 7. Minimum space width .004" or less; 8. Shall have minimum sized hole drilled is .013" or less; 9.Shall have .3 mil resolution or less. 10. Shall have .3 mil repeatability or less. 11.Shall us Windows 95 software for file conversion. 12. Shall accept Gerber 274X file format as input. 13.Shall accept Excellon drill format as input. 14. Shall be able to use a variable speed spindle; 15. Shall use chemical through hole plating. 16. Shall have a press and plates for doing multi layer boards; 17. Shall have a sound enclosure for audible noise reduction if system noise level is louder than 70 dbspl; 18. Shall have a vacuum system for removing waste material vacuum shall be no louder that 70 dbspl; 19.Company shall provide basic and RF starter packages of all materials; 20. Company shall supply starting supply of through plating chemicals; 21. Training for a minimum of four (4) member of our staff to be sufficiently trained to operate all of the identified equipment, this will be done at the vendor site. The above listed characteristics are intended to be descriptive, but not restrictive. Unless visibly marked that the vendor is quoting an "equal" the offered items shall be considered the brand name product as referenced in this announcement. If offering an or equal product the brand name of the product furnished shall be clearly identified on the proposal. The evaluation of quotes and the determination as to equality of the product shall be the responsibility of the Government and shall be based on information provided by the vendors. The Government is not responsible for locating or securing any information which is not identified in the quotation and reasonable to the purchasing activity. To insure that sufficient information is available the vendor must furnish as part of there quote all descriptive material necessary for the purchasing activity to determine whether the products meets all salient characteristics of this requirement. Vendors proposing to modify a product to make it conform to the requirements of this announcement shall include a clear description of proposed modification and clearly mark any descriptive material to show proposed modification -- Destination-FOB-Delivery FBI Engineering Research Facility, Conduce, VA. All bids shall be mailed to the address listed in the CBD announcement no later than 1:00p.m. EST, March 30, 1999 and clearly marked with the RFQ# 897830. No hand carried proposal will be accepted. The point of contact for information is Edith M. Young Contract Specialist, at the address and phone number listed above. All potential bidders are hereby notified due to security requirements, Federal Express, DHL, UPS, ect, deliveries for the FBI Headquarters facility are now received at an off-site location. therefore the normal response time of 15 days has been extended to 20 days. The FBI has allowed five (5) extra days from the release of the CBD synopsis/solicitation for receipt of bids, vendors are hereby notified that if your proposal is not received by the date/time and at the specified location in this announcement, your bid will be considered late. The following clauses and provisions are incorporated by reference and apply to this acquisition: FAR provision 52.212-1 Instruction to Offerors- Commercial Items (Aug 1998); FAR clause 52.212-4 Contract Terms and Conditions-Commercial Items( Apr 1998); FAR clause 52.212-5 Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statues or Executive Orders- Commercial Items (Oct 1998). Each offeror shall include a completed copy of the FAR provision 52.212-3 Offeror Representations and Certification Commercial Items (Oct 1998). All responsible offeror may submit a quotation which, if timely received shall be considered by the agency. The Government will award to the responsible offeror whose offer conforms to this solicitation and will be most advantageous to the Government, price and other factors considered. Offerors will be evaluated in accordance with FAR provision 52.212-2 Evaluation-Commercial Items (Oct 1997). The following factors shall; be used to evaluate offers, The ability to meet the technical requirements and price in descending order of importance. Technically acceptable proposal must show that the offeror can meet the requirements of the Government. Fax proposal will be accepted (202)324-5722. Proposals must state name, address and RFQ number. Award will be made within ten (10) days after closing. ***** Posted 03/10/99 (W-SN307015). (0069)

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