SOLICITATION NOTICE
66 -- ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPE AND MICROINDENTOR SYSTEM
- Notice Date
- 4/26/2002
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- Contracting Office
- Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Acquisition and Logistics Division, 100 Bureau Drive, Building 301, Room B129, Mail Stop 3571, Gaithersburg, MD, 20899-3571
- ZIP Code
- 20899-3571
- Solicitation Number
- 02-822-5454
- Response Due
- 5/10/2002
- Archive Date
- 5/25/2002
- Point of Contact
- Tamara Grinspon, Contract Specialist, Phone (301) 975-4390, Fax (301) 975-8884, - Patrick Staines, Contract Specialist, Phone (301)975-6335, Fax (301)975-8884,
- E-Mail Address
-
tamara.grinspon@nist.gov, Patrick.Staines@nist.gov
- Description
- The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) intends to negotiate, on a sole source basis, under authority of FAR 13.106-1(b)(1), with Hysitron, Inc., of Minneapolis, MN, for acquisition of one (1) Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) and Microindentor System, to be used in the Manufacturing Metrology Division, at NIST.***** Installation and training at the NIST laboratory shall be included. In addition, a one-year on-site warranty on parts and labor, with next-business-day service, shall be included.*****Sole source determination is based on the Division's need to be able to perform high accuracy instrumented indentation and atomic force microscopy with one instrument. Hysitron is uniquely qualified to meet the Government's needs, as it is the only vendor that has developed the interface hardware necessary to perform this integration in a seamless fashion; i.e., they have demonstrated the ability to integrate the indentation technology with the AFM in a fashion that is structurally rigid enough to achieve the desired performance. In addition, the Hysitron instrumented indentation system uses a unique capacitive sensor and electrostatic actuator technology that enables (1) varying load times from 0.1-2000 seconds; (2) measured displacement noise floor below 0.2 nm; (3) force generation and displacement measurement combined in one sensor/actuator; (4) high bandwidth force modulation (up to 300 Hz); (5) load resolution less than 1 nN; and (6) low noise floor less than 100 nN rms. The low noise floor, 2000 second stability, and high bandwidth are critical for the Manufacturing Metrology Division's force calibration experiments. Furthermore, this proprietary technology has a small form factor that Hysitron has successfully integrated with existing atomic force microscope platforms.*****Delivery shall be FOB Destination, Gaithersburg, MD, and is required within 30 days or less after receipt of order (ARO).***** The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this acquisition is 334413, and the size standard is 500 Employees.*****No solicitation package will be issued. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive quotations. However, responses received by May 10, 2002, will be considered by the Government. A determination by the Government not to compete the proposed acquisition based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information received will normally be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement.*****
- Place of Performance
- Address: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Shipping and Receiving, Building 301, 100 Bureau Drive, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-0001
- Record
- SN00066900-W 20020428/020426213135 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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