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66 -- COMPLETE LOW TEMPERATURE MICRO-PROBE SYSTEM SOL 53SBNB060054 DUE 042100 POC Kathy Fain, Contract Specialist (301) 975-6337, or Alba Sanchez, Contracting Officer (301) 975-6344; FAX (301)963-7732 WEB: NIST Contracts Homepage, www.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 53SBNB060054 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 97-15. This acquisition is not aside for small businesses. The SIC code is 3559 and the related small business standard size is 500 employees. The National Institute of Standards and Technology's Semiconductor Electronics Division has a requirement for a complete low temperature micro-probe system. The Contract Line Item Number (CLIN), quantity, and unit issue are as follows: CLIN 0001: programmable temperature controller with control software, one (1) each; CLIN 0002: refrigerator, one (1) each; CLIN 0003: manipulators with probe tips, four (4) each; CLIN 0004: a seven port vacuum chamber with one fused-silica window, one (1) each; CLIN 0005: accessories necessary for nitrogen gas operation from 80 Kelvin to 400 Kelvin, one (1) set; CLIN 0006: accessories necessary for liquid helium or liquid nitrogen operation from 10 Kelvin to 400 Kelvin, one (1) set; CLIN 0007 the ability to hold samples of at least 1 centimeter by 1 centimeter and appropriate sample mounting kit, one (1) each; and CLIN 0008: pumps, regulators, and vacuum accessories necessary for operation, one (1) set. The system should also have the following capabilities or traits: 1. temperature stability of 50 milliKelvin or better, 2. temperature resolution of 0.01 Kelvin or better, 3. temperature sensing near the sample mounting surface, 4. probes with travel of at least 1 inch by 1 inch by 0.25 inch and positioning accuracy of 50 micrometers or better, 5. temperature controller should interface to a computer using RS-232C and IEEE-488 communications, 6. system shall take no more than 20 minutes to cool from 300K to 80K, 7. system shall take no more than 5 minutes to warm from 80K to 300K, 8. system must be capable of being made light tight, 9. windows must be frost free at all times, 10. system must be compatible with zoom microscopes, 11. system must be compatible with an HP4156 semiconductor parameter analyzer, and an HP4284 LCR meter. The vendor shall deliver all items FOB Destination to NIST, Building 301, Shipping and Receiving, 100 Bureau Drive, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-0001. Required delivery time is 8 weeks from date of award. Acceptance by NIST end users will take place on site immediately after a satisfactory inspection to show equipment meets all specifications. 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 shall be granted equal importance in evaluating offers: 1) Technical Capability to Meet the Government's Needs; 2) Past Performance. 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://www.nist.gov/admin/od/comtract/agency.htm. 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 all of the CLINs; 2) Technical description and/or product literature; 3) Description of commercial warranty, as well as copy of any and all relevant software licensing agreements; 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; 5) information, including relevant contact names and telephone numbers, to confirm that the vendor has sold a minimum of 10 equivalent probe stations previously; and 7) A completed copy of the provision at 52.212-3, Offeror Representations and Certifications-Commercial Items which may be downloaded from http://www.arnet.gov/far/loadmain52.html. 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 April 21, 2000. Faxed offers will not be accepted. See numbered Note 1. Posted 04/03/00 (W-SN440710). (0094)

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