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66 -- CENTRIFUGE ASSISTED X-RAY GRAVITATIONAL PARTICLE SIZE ANALYZER SOL 53SBNB060025 DUE 012700 POC Teresa A. Reefe, Contract Specialist (301) 975-6364 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. This solicitation is issued as a Request for Quotation (RFQ No. 53SBNB060025) using simplified acquisition procedures (FAR Part 13). The solicitation clauses and provisions are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 97-14. This requirement is a total small business set aside under SIC code 3826 and the related small business size standard is 500 employees. The National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST's) Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory has a requirement for a Centrifuge Assisted X-Ray Gravitational Particle Size Analyzer to be used for particle size determination of primarily ceramic powders. The system shall be an x-ray centrifuge based system and not a photo-centrifuge based system. The Contract Line Item Numbers (CLIN), quantities, and unit issue are as follows: CLIN 0001, Centrifuge Assisted X-Ray Gravitational Particle Size Analyzer, meeting the specifications listed below, one (1) each; and CLIN 0002, On-site Installation, Instrument Alignment and User Training, one (1) lot. The following are the technical specifications of the system: 1) Size Range: 0.01 to 100 um (micrometers); 2) Operation Mode: Centrifugal AND Gravitational Modes. Scanning X-Ray Detector ; 3) Centrifuge Speed: 500-600 rpm, plus or minus 0.01%; 4) Measurement Time: Nominally Less than 30 Minutes; 5) Scanning Speed: 0.05-10 mm/min; 6) Sample Volume: 10-20 mL; 7) Computer System: Stand-Alone, Intel Pentium PC or equal, Windows9x OS; Minimum Processor Speed: 300 Mhz; min. 32 MB of RAM, min. 6.4 GB EIDE hard drive; 32x IDE CD-Rom; SVGA AGP graphics board with min. 4 MB of RAM; at least 14" color SVGA monitor; 200 W Power Supply; 8) Power Requirements: 100/115/240 V AC, 50/60 Hz, 300 W. The vendor shall include automatic software upgrades, when released, at no additional cost to NIST. The system shall include, at a minimum, a one (1) year warranty on the instrument which shall include all parts and labor. The system shall be delivered FOB destination, 120 days after purchase order award. Installation and Training dates shall be arranged with the designated Contracting Officer's Technical Representative (COTR) after system is delivered. The provisions at 52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors-Commercial, applies to this acquisition. The Government will award a contract 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 agency need (offerors shall submit a quotation addressing all required specifications, and shall provide descriptive literature for item(s) quoted); 2) Past Performance (offerors shall submit evidence of having produced and sold comparable units within the past 5 years, with indication of performance success, and a list of 3 references, with name of contact, firm, phone number, and item(s) purchased); and 3) Price. The clause at 52.212-4, Contract Terms and Conditions-Commercial Items 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, 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, (21)(ii) Alternate I 52.225-21. Department of Commerce Agency-Level Protest Procedures Level Above the Contracting Officer, which can be downloaded from the NIST Web Page located at http://www.nist.gov/admin/od/contract/protest.htm applies to this acquisition. Year 2000 Warranty -- Commercial Supply Items. The contractor warrants that each hardware, software, and firmware product delivered under this contract and listed above 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. The Contractor shall provide microcomputers, including personal computers, monitors, and printers, to meet "EPA Energy Star" requirements for energy efficiency. They shall be equipped with the energy efficient low-power standby feature as defined by the EPA Energy Star computers program. This feature shall be activated when the equipment is shipped and shall be capable of entering and recovering from the low-power state unless the equipment meets Energy Star efficiency levels at all times.All offerors shall submit thefollowing: 1) Three (3) copies of quotation which addresses CLIN 0001 and CLIN 0002; 2) Technical description and/or product literature; 3) Description of commercial warranty; 4) Two (2) copies of the most recent published price list(s); 5) Past performance information, as stated above; 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, Building 301, Room B117, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-0001. For information, call the POC identified above. Submission must be received by 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time on January 27, 2000. Faxed offers will not be accepted. See Numbered Note 1. Posted 01/19/00 (W-SN416877). (0019)

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