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67 -- INTENSIFIED ("GENIV") DIGITAL CCD CAMERA SYSTEM AND SUPPORTING SOFTWARE SOL 53SBNB960110 DUE 070899 POC Kathy Fain, Contract Specialist (301) 975-6337, Anita Tolliver, Contracting Officer, (301) 975-6308 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 FAR SUBPART 12.6, AS SUPPLEMENTED WITH ADDITIONAL INFORMATION INCLUDED IN THIS NOTICE. THIS ANNOUNCEMENT CONSTITUTES THE ONLY SOLICITATION; QUOTES ARE BEING REQUESTED AND A WRITTEN SOLICITATION WILL NOT BE ISSUED. SOLICITATION NUMBER 53SBNB960110 IS BEING ISSUED AS A REQUEST FOR QUOTATION (RFQ) USING SIMPLIFIED ACQUISITION PROCEDURES. Incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 97-11. This acquisition is set aside 100% for small businesses. The SIC code is 3829 and the related small business standard size is 500 employees. The National Institute of Standards and Technology's Optical Technology Division has a requirement for an Intensified ("Gen IV") digital Charge Coupled Device (CCD) Camera System and supporting software. The Contract Line Item Number (CLIN), quantity, and unit issue are as follows: CLIN 0001, CCD Camera System (as described in the technical specifications below), one (1) each. The following are the technical specifications of the equipment: 1) "GenIV" image intensifier or better, fiber optic coupled to type EEV37 CCD or better; 2) 512 by 512 by 2 frame transfer camera; 3) Quantum efficiency of intensifier to at least match or exceed that of Gen IV at all wavelengths (greater than 40% at 546nm); 4) 12 bits, 1 and 5 MHz A/D converters; 5) Spatial resolution of 40-60 microns; 6) ccd pixel size 15 microns or smaller with 1.5:1 reduction in fiber coupler, or similar pixel size and ratio; 7) C-mount on camera; 8) Remote power supply and input for gating supply; 9) Gating capability down to 12 ns pulsewidth should be possible with user-supplied commercially-available high-voltage pulse generator; 10) Thermoelectrically cooled ccd; 11) PCI card for camera control; 12) All cables necessary for installation; 13) 15 frames per second at full resolution or faster; 14) 30 frames per second (or faster) at 2 by 2 binding; 15) 112 frames per second or faster with 100 by 100 pixel region of ccd; 16) ccd read noise less than 34 counts at 5 MHz readout or 18 counts at 1 MHz readout; 17) cooling to -20C or colder; 18) ccd well capacity 180,000 e or more; 19) PC (Windows 95, 98, NT) based software to enable the following : a) real time data acquisition, full support of all camera hardware, b) DMA for full speed acquisition, c)macro language to allow customization, d) multiple file formats (at least gif, bmp, tiff), e) over-the-phone-technical support, and f) image processing capability including: filters, thresholding and clipping, mathematical operations, smoothing and sharpening, edge enhancement, morphological processing, ability to display and store cross-sections, image histograms, and statistical analysis. The vendor shall deliver all items FOB Destination to NIST, Building 301, Shipping and Receiving, 100 Bureau Drive, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-0001. Desired delivery time is 4 weeks from date of award. Required delivery time is 8 weeks from date of award. The provisions at 52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors-Commercial Items, apply to this acquisition. The Government will award a purchase order resulting from this solicitation to the responsible offeror whose offer conforming to the solicitation will be most advantageous to the Government, price and other factors considered. The following factors in descending order of importance shall be used to evaluate offers: 1) Technical Capability to Meet the Government's Needs; 2) Past Performance; and 3) Performance Demo : offerors who are identified by NIST as technically acceptable will be called by the Contract Specialist at NIST, and the contractor shall provide an on site demonstration at NIST of the intensified ("Gen IV") digital CCD Camera System and supporting software as described in offerors written quotation, (the user will be connected with NIST's existing instruments and various tests will be performed to check whether the unit meets all the specs clearly shown in the synopsis/solicitation including speed, sensitivity, read noise, dark noise, etc.); the demo shall take place within 4 calendar days of telephone notification from NIST. Technical and past performance when combined, are significantly more important than price. The clause at 52.212-4 Contract Terms and Conditions-Commercial Items applies to this acquisition. Additionally, the clause at 52.212-5, Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statutes or Executive Orders-Commercial Items, applies to this acquisition, including subparagraphs (11) 52.222-21, (12) 52.222-26, (13) 52.222-35, (14) 52.222-36, (15) 52.222-37, (16) 52.225-3, and Department of Commerce Agency-Level Protest Procedures Level Above the Contracting Officer, which can be downloaded from the NIST Web Page located at http://sage.ogc.doc.gov/OGC/fl/cld/car/car1333.html .Other clauses that apply to this acquisition are 52.227-19, Commercial Computer Software -- Restricted Rights and the Year 2000 Warranty -- Commercial Supply Items. The contractor warrants that each hardware, software, and firmware product delivered under this contract and listed below shall be able to accurately process date data (including, but not limited to, calculating, comparing, and sequencing) from, into, and between the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including leap year calculations, when used in accordance with the product documentation provided by the contractor, provided that all listed or unlisted products (e.g. hardware, software, firmware) used in combination with such listed product properly exchange date data with it. If the contract requires that specific listed products must perform as a system in accordance with the foregoing warranty, then that warranty shall apply to those listed products as a system. The duration of this warranty and the remedies available to the Government for breach of this warranty shall be as defined in, and subject to, the terms and limitations of the contractor's standard commercial warranty or warranties contained in this contract, provided that notwithstanding any provision to the contrary in such commercial warranty or warranties, the remedies available to the Government under this warranty shall include repair or replacement of any listed product whose non-compliance is discovered and made known to the contractor in writing within ninety (90) days after acceptance. Nothing in this warranty shall be construed to limit any rights or remedies the Government may otherwise have under this contract with respect to defects other than Year 2000 performance. All offerors shall submit the following: 1) Three (3) copies of quotation which addresses CLIN 0001; 2) Technical description and/or product literature; 3) Description of commercial warranty; 4) Two (2) copies of most recently published price list(s); 5) A list of three contracts completed during the past three years for similar equipment with the following information: name of contracting activity, contract number, contract type, total contract value, contracting office and telephone number, and program manager and telephone number; and 6) A completed copy of the provision at 52.212-3, Offeror Representations and Certifications-Commercial Items which may be downloaded from http://www.nist.gov/admin/od/contract/repcert.htm. All offers should be sent to the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Acquisition and Assistance Division, Attn: Kathy Fain, Building 301, Room B117, 100 Bureau Drive, Stop 3572, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-3572. For information, call the POC identified above. Submission must be received by 3:00 p.m. local time on July 8, 1999. Faxed offers will not be accepted. See numbered Note 1. Posted 06/15/99 (W-SN343051). (0166)

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