SOLICITATION NOTICE
66 -- Spectrally Tunable Lighting Source
- Notice Date
- 2/7/2007
- 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, UNITED STATES
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- SB1341-07-RP-0008
- Response Due
- 3/22/2007
- Archive Date
- 4/6/2007
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- Solid-state lighting and other burgeoning technologies are strongly dependent on photometric and colorimetric metrics, or systems of related measures that facilitate the quantification of particular characteristics. In some cases, present metrics are inappropriate for use with the new technologies; in other cases, the necessary metrics and measurements simply do not exist. One illustrative example is solid-state lighting using light-emitting diodes (LEDs), which promises substantial energy savings if implemented for general lighting. However, existing metrics and measurements are insufficient for evaluating the color quality of such lights, necessary for optimizing the spectral output to simultaneously satisfy consumer demands for good color quality and high energy efficiency. Metrics guide product design and developers optimize products to the metrics available. Vision science underlies all photometric and colorimetric metrics and measurements. NIST is establishing a new state-of-the-art vision science program, which will be unique among national metrology institutes and national laboratories. This program will provide the capabilities to perform critical vision science experiments necessary to develop colorimetric and photometric metrics optimized for technologies of the 21st century. The crux of the new facility will be an illumination source capable of producing any spectral power distribution within the visible range for testing colorimetric and photometric metrics. Studies of visual perception related to photometry and colorimetry have traditionally been limited by available light sources. As a consequence, many important issues have not been adequately investigated. Ideally, an experiment would manipulate only one parameter, holding all other variables constant. The spectral, spatial, and temporal properties of available lamps are limited and interdependent. The purpose of this acquisition is to design and manufacture a novel spectrally-tunable light source to conduct the most rigorous and well-controlled visual experiments. This innovative light source must be capable of producing any spectral distribution of light at any illumination level up to approximately 500 lx (office lighting levels). The period of performance shall be 6 months from the date of award. This acquisition is 100% set-aside for small business. In accordance with the non-manufacturer rule, the manufacturer and distributor of these supplies must be a small business in accordance with the NAICS code identified. For size purposes, there can be only one manufacturer of the end item being acquired. The manufacturer is the concern which, with its own facilities, performs the primary activities in transforming inorganic or organic substances, including the assembly of parts and components, into the end item being acquired. The end item must possess characteristics which, as a result of mechanical, chemical or human action, it did not possess before the original substances, parts or components were assembled or transformed. The end item may be finished and ready for utilization or consumption, or it may be semifinished as a raw material to be used in further manufacturing. Firms which perform only minimal operations upon the item being procured do not qualify as manufacturers of the end item. A fixed-price contract is anticipated. The NAICS code for this requirement is 334516 with a size standard of 500 employees. The competitive Request for Proposal (RFP), RFP amendments, and all questions and answers related to this procurement will be made available via the Internet at http://www.fedbizopps.gov/ under RFP number SB1341-07-RP-0008. THE RFP IS ANTICIPATED FOR RELEASE TO THE VENDOR COMMUNITY ON OR ABOUT FEBRUARY 22, 2007, AND WILL ONLY BE AVAILABLE VIA THE INTERNET AT THE ABOVE WEB SITE. POTENTIAL OFFERORS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR ACCESSING THE WEB SITE. Interested parties must respond to the RFP in order to be considered for award of any resultant contract. THERE IS NO WRITTEN SOLICITATION DOCUMENT AVAILABLE, TELEPHONE REQUESTS WILL NOT BE HONORED, AND NO BIDDERS LIST WILL BE MAINTAINED. Potential offerors are requested to direct all questions via email to Carol.Wood@NIST.GOV
- Place of Performance
- Address: Ship to:, NIST, Shipping & Receiving, 100 Bureau Drive, Gaitherburg, MD
- Zip Code: 20899
- Country: UNITED STATES
- Zip Code: 20899
- Record
- SN01227530-W 20070209/070207220606 (fbodaily.com)
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