SOLICITATION NOTICE
66 -- Electron and Atmospheric Pressure Chemical Ionization Source System
- Notice Date
- 7/6/2006
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 334516
— Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Acquisition Management Division, 100 Bureau Drive, Building 301, Room B129, Mail Stop 1640, Gaithersburg, MD, 20899-1640
- ZIP Code
- 20899-1640
- Solicitation Number
- SB1341-06-Q-0476
- Response Due
- 7/14/2006
- Archive Date
- 7/29/2006
- Description
- THIS IS A COMBINED SYNOPSIS/SOLICITATION FOR COMMERCIAL ITEMS PREPARED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE FORMAT IN FAR SUBPART 12.6-STREAMLINED PROCEDURES FOR EVALUATION AND SOLICITATION FOR COMMERCIAL ITEMS-AS SUPPLEMENTED WITH ADDITIONAL INFORMATION INCLUDED IN THIS NOTICE. THIS ANNOUNCEMENT CONSTITUTES THE ONLY SOLICITATION; QUOTATIONS ARE BEING REQUESTED, AND A WRITTEN SOLICITATION DOCUMENT WILL NOT BE ISSUED. THIS SOLICITATION IS BEING ISSUED USING SIMPLIFIED ACQUISITION PROCEDURES. This solicitation is a Request for Quotation (RFQ). The solicitation document and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 05-11. The associated North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) code for this procurement is 334516 with a small business size standard of 500 employees. This acquisition is unrestricted and all interested offerors may submit a quote. The Contractor is required to deliver a complete, turnkey Atmospheric Pressure Ion (API) Source with three vacuum stages, electrospray sample inlet probe, vacuum ion optics, two vacuum stage hexapole ion guide, API source and Ion Optics Controller with front panel controls or software that operates on a Windows 2000 or XP operating system and vacuum pumps, pump controllers, gauges, gauge controllers with fully assembled connectors, flanges, fittings, tubing and syringe pump. The Electrospray & Atmospheric Pressure Chemical Ionization Source System (ESI/APCI) System will be alternately interfaced to an existing time-of-flight mass spectrometer (TOFMS) and quadrupole mass spectrometers (QMS). The TOFMS is a R.M. Jordan Co., Inc., Model D-850, Angular Reflectron Time-of-Flight mass spectrometer. The QMS is an Extrel CMS Model 813937 quadrupole mass filter assembly with UHV compatible Pre and Post Filters, standard housing, stabilizing rods, entrance and exit lens. Using either instrument type, proper apparatus operation will require the ESI/APCI source to collect ions produced at its sample inlet, store them for 0.1-1 milliseconds, and then on-demand, rapidly deliver ions to the TOFMS or QMS. Furthermore, to improve the TOFMS and QMS system sensitivities to useful levels, the ESI/APCI source must deliver ions that have a energy spread of less than plus or minus 0.5 electron volts. The ESI/APCI source system must also present a very small gas load to the TOFMS and QMS vacuum housings. This is a brand name or equal requirement. Brand name or equal description is intended to be descriptive, but not restrictive and is to indicate the quality and characteristic of products that will be considered satisfactory to meet the agency?s requirement. All interested quoters shall provide a quote for the following line item: LINE ITEM 0001: Quantity 1 each Atmospheric Pressure Ion (API) Source Analytica of Branford or equal. The Analytica of Branford components that make up this system are: Atmospheric Pressure Ion (API) Source - Model Number 107650 Digital Controller - Model Number 104339-3R-230 Hexapole Ion Guide RF Generator - Model No. 105952 Vacuum Pumping Assembly - Model Number 104687-1. If quoting an equal product, the Contractor shall provide written documentation that all of the following salient characteristics can be met: COMPONENT 1: Dual Probe Electrospray Ion Source and Three Stage Vacuum System -API source must operate in positive or negative ion polarity mode; -Dual inlet ES Probes with pneumatic nebulization assist must be operated individually or sprayed simultaneously. Each ES probe must accommodate a sample solution flow rate range of 4 microliters/min to 1.5 ml/min. The configuration shall allow introduction of a calibration solution through the second ES probe to provide calibration ion peaks as external or internal mass to charge calibration standards without contaminating the sample solution flow path of the first ES probe. The ES and API probes shall be disposable and allow for easy drop-in replacement; -The ES inlet Probes must be able to be operated at ground potential; -The mass to charge range of ion transmission through the hexapole ion guide must 20 to 4,000 daltons per charge state. Must have the capability for the mass range to be extended to lower or higher mass to charge range with different frequency RF generators that must be supplied from the vendor; -For a 20 picomole ul sample solution of Reserpine in 1:1 Methanol:Water with 0.1 percent Acetic Acid Electrosprayed at a 10 microliters/min flow rate in positive ion polarity mode, the API source three vacuum stage assembly must deliver over 35 picoamps of parent ion current into vacuum stage 4; -The average energy of the ion beam exiting the hexapole ion guide exit lens relative to ground potential must equal the hexapole ion guide offset potential set by the user. The hexapole offset potential has a range of plus or minus 20 VDC. The ion beam exiting the hexapole ion guide has an energy spread less than plus or minus 0.5 electron volts; -The API source assembly must be supplied standard with a 600 micrometer inner diameter dielectric capillary tube orifice into vacuum with a 1.2 mm skimmer. The neutral gas load into the fourth vacuum stage must be less than 3.87 x 10 to the negative 5 power Torr L/sec. With no degassing or additional gas loads into vacuum stage 4, a turbomolecular pump with a vacuum pumping speed of approximately 200 L/sec must maintain a background pressure in the low 10 to the negative 7 power or high 10 to the negative 8 power Torr range. The system must be able to accommodate larger capillary and skimmer orifice sizes, improving sensitivity, if a higher stage 4 vacuum pressure can be tolerated or increased vacuum pumping speed is available in vacuum stage 4. -The API source requires a dry and clean nitrogen gas source at a pressure between 100 to 120 psig with total flow rates up to 20 L/min. Dry and clean Nitrogen is typically sourced from the headspace of a high pressure liquid nitrogen Dewar or an appropriately sized Nitrogen generator; -The oil free vacuum rotary pump shall operate on single Phase 220 VAC, 15 Amp mains; -The API Source Three Vacuum Stage Assembly exit or fourth vacuum stage port must have an ISO 100 Flange. The downstream ion guide exit lens plane must be positioned parallel with the O-ring sealing surface plane of the exit ISO 100 flange; -The hexapole ion guide exit lens must be able to be programmed to trap ions in the hexapole ion guide with timed release of ions axially from the hexapole ion guide exit lens. The transition of voltage applied to the exit lens to trap and release ions must be less than 1 microsecond; -A capillary exit lens to skimmer voltage difference of up to plus or minus 400 V must be applied allowing the ability to fragment ions through Collision Induced Dissociation (CID) with neutral background gas; -The API source chamber back plate must open and close with automatic high voltage and gas flow safety shutoff for simple and convenient access into the API source for cleaning or probe exchange. Must allow for rapid exchange of different, vendor supplied, inlet probes including; -Single Electrospray probe (position adjustable in the x axis direction), Analytica Model #107698 or equal; -Dual Electrospray probe (position adjustable in x axis direction), Analytica Model #106083 or equal; -Nanospray probe with replaceable tips (position adjustable in the x, y and z directions); Analytica Model #s108063 & 106083-1 or equal; -Flow through Nanospray probe (position adjustable in the x, y and z directions), Analtyica Model #106082 or equal; -Single Atmospheric Pressure Chemical Ionization probe (APCI), Analytica Model #107630 or equal; and -Dual APCI probe, Analtica Model #107630 or equal. COMPONENT #2: API Source, Hexapole Ion guide and Vacuum Ion Optics Digital Controller -The API Digital Controller must provide digital control for positive or negative ion polarity, single or dual inlet probe, Electrospray and Atmospheric Pressure Chemical Ionization operation; -The API Controller must be fully controlled through a backlit LCD front panel display or through a user interface running on a customer supplied computer with a Windows 2000 or XP operating system. Communication between the API Controller and the Windows operating system computer must be through an RS 232 port; -Electrospray ion current and APCI corona discharge current must be provided to the user during operation; -The API Controller must include non-volatile memory for storing up to 20 different API methods with rapid recall and reporting functions; -Local print-out capability must be available for logging operating parameters without host PC mediation; -API Controller must accept a TTL (Logic 0 equals 0 volts, Logic 1 equals plus 5 volts when the 0 volt to plus 5 volt pulse source delivers 89 milliamps) input pulse to synchronize trapping of ions in and axial release of ions from the hexapole ion guide that has a down stream analyzer function such as Time-Of-Flight orthogonal pulsing; -API Controller must be configured for benchtop operation or to mount into a standard 19 inch rack; -API source Controller must require a 120 VAC, 5 Amp or a 220 VAC, 3 Amp mains input. COMPONENT #3 - Vacuum Pump, Gauges and Controller System -The vacuum safety shutoff generated from the vacuum gauge controller must be connected to the API Controller and the turbomolecular vacuum pump controllers for safe system shutdown in the event of a vacuum failure in vacuum stages 1 through 3; -The vacuum turbomolecular vacuum pump and gauge controllers must require 110 VAC mains input; -Separate rotary pump and Atmospheric Pressure Ion Source vent lines are required for API source operation to avoid back streaming of contamination into the API source. LINE ITEM 0002: INSTALLATION. The Contractor shall provide installation for the system. Installation shall include, at a minimum, uncrating/unpackaging of all equipment, set-up and hook-up of all equipment, turn key start-up, demonstration of specifications, and removal of all trash. LINE ITEM 0003: TRAINING. The Contractor shall schedule and facilitate a training session for three (3) NIST personnel, on-site at NIST Gaithersburg. The training shall provide a thorough demonstration of all equipment functions, equipment operation and basic troubleshooting. The training may be completed on-site at NIST immediately after installation and demonstration of specifications. WARRANTY: The Contractor shall state the warranty coverage provided for the system. Please provide a description of the warranty provided for this equipment. Please include the following details: 1. Length of warranty. 2. What is included? (parts, labor) 3. Is the warranty on-site or return to vendor? If on-site - is travel included? If return to vendor - is shipping to and from NIST included? Delivery shall be FOB Destination. Delivery shall be completed in accordance with the Contractor?s commercial schedule FOB DESTINATION MEANS: The contractor shall pack and mark the shipment in conformance with carrier requirements, deliver the shipment in good order and condition to the point of delivery specified in the purchase order, be responsible for loss of and/or damage to the goods occurring before receipt and acceptance of the shipment by the consignee at the delivery point specified in the purchase order; and pay all charges to the specified point of delivery. Award will be made to the Contractor whose quote offers the best value to the Government, technical, price, and other factors considered. The Government will evaluate quotations based on the following evaluation criteria: 1) Technical Capability factor: Meeting or Exceeding the Requirement, 2) Past Performance, 3) Past Experience, and Price. Technical Capability, Past Performance, and Past Experience, when combined, are equal in importance to price. Evaluation of Technical Capability shall be based on the information provided in the quotation. Quoters shall include the manufacturer, make and model of the product, manufacturer sales literature or other product literature which CLEARLY DOCUMENTS that the offered product meets or exceeds the specifications stated herein. Past Performance will be evaluated to determine the overall quality of the product and service provided. Evaluation of Past Performance will be based on the references provided IAW FAR 52.212-1(b)(10) and/or the offeror?s recent and relevant procurement history with NIST or its affiliates. Past Experience shall be evaluated to determine the extent of the Contractor?s experience in providing the same or similar systems for use in the same or similar applications as those described herein. The Contractor shall describe their experience in manufacturing, assembling and providing systems, explain how their experience is relevant to providing the equipment listed herein, and how their experience will ensure successful completion of the project. The Contractor shall provide documentation which demonstrates they have provided the proposed equipment to at least three (3) customers. Information on past experience may also be obtained from references. The full text of a FAR provision or clause may be accessed electronically at www.acqnet.gov/far. The following provisions apply to this acquisition: FAR 52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors ? Commercial; and 52.212-3, Offeror Representations and Certifications ? Commercial Items. In accordance with FAR 52.212-3 Offeror Representations and Certifications ? Commercial Items, offerors must complete annual representations and certifications on-line at http://orca.bpn.gov. If paragraph (j) of the provision applies, a written submission is required. The following clauses apply to this acquisition: 52.204-7 Central Contractor Registration; 52.211-6 Brand Name or Equal; 52.212-4 Contract Terms and Conditions?Commercial Items; 52.212-5 Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statutes or Executive Orders?Commercial Items including subparagraphs: (14) 52.222-3, Convict Labor; (15) 52.222-19, Child Labor?Cooperation with Authorities and Remedies; (16) 52.222-21, Prohibition of Segregated Facilities; (17) 52.222-26, Equal Opportunity; (18) 52.222-35, Equal Opportunity for Special Disabled Veterans, Veterans of the Vietnam Era, and Other Eligible Veterans; (19) 52.222-36, Affirmative Action for Workers with Disabilities; (20) 52.222-37, Employment Reports on Special Disabled Veterans, Veterans of the Vietnam Era, and Other Eligible Veterans; (24) 52.225-3 Buy American Act?Free Trade Agreement?Israeli Trade Act (JAN 2005); (26) 52.225-13 Restriction on Certain Foreign Purchases (E.O. 12722, 12724, 13059, 13067, 13121, and 13129; and; (31) 52.232-33, Payment by Electronic Funds Transfer--Central Contractor Registration. Department of Commerce Agency-Level Protest Procedures Level above the Contracting Officer is also incorporated. It can be downloaded at www.nist.gov/admin/od/contract/agency.htm. All quoters shall submit the following: 1) An original and one (1) copy of a quotation which addresses all line items and all technical evaluation criteria; (2) Technical description and/or product literature for all quoted products; and (3) A list of at least three (3) references to whom the same or similar product has been provided. The list of references shall include, at a minimum: The name of the reference contact person and the company or organization; the telephone number of the reference contact person; the contract or grant number; the amount of the contract and the address and the telephone number of the Contracting Officer if applicable; and the date of delivery or the date services were completed. All quotes must be sent to the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Acquisition Management Division, Attn: Carol A. Wood, 100 Bureau Drive, Stop 1640, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-1640. Offerors shall ensure the RFQ number is visible on the outermost packaging. Submission must be received by 3:30 p.m. local time on July 14, 2006. E-MAIL QUOTES SHALL BE ACCEPTED. FAX quotes shall not be accepted.
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- Address: Contractor's Site
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- SN01083383-W 20060708/060706220259 (fbodaily.com)
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