SOURCES SOUGHT
66 -- Ferromagnetic Resonance Force Microscope
- Notice Date
- 3/26/2009
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- 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, Maryland, 20899-1640
- ZIP Code
- 20899-1640
- Solicitation Number
- AMD-09-SS27
- Archive Date
- 4/25/2009
- Point of Contact
- Todd D Hill, Phone: 301-975-8802
- E-Mail Address
-
todd.hill@nist.gov
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST) seeks information on commercial vendors that are capable of providing a ferromagnetic resonance force microscope facility for microwave magnetic measurements of magnetic nanostructures. Our plan is to use this acquisition as a starting point for a series of projects involving ferromagnetic resonance force microscopy. As such, the need is for a magnetic force microscope with a modular design that can be modified to accommodate microwave excitation of the sample, taken apart, reconfigured, and used as a flexible test bed for a variety of measurement schemes. After results of this market research are obtained and analyzed and specifications are developed for a magnetic force microscope that can meet NIST's minimum requirements, NIST may conduct a competitive procurement and subsequently award a Purchase Order. If at least two qualified small businesses are identified during this market research stage, then any competitive procurement that resulted would be conducted as a small business set-aside. NIST has a need for a magnetic force microscope that would meet the following requirements: 1.The microscope probe head must be simultaneously compatible with operation in high vacuum, in vertical and horizontal magnetic fields up to 5 Tesla and at temperatures from 300 K to 4.2 Kelvin. 2.The sample stage area must be greater than 2 cm diameter to accommodate microwave coaxial cable connections to the sample. 3.The sample stage must be supported by a nanopositioner or combination of nanopositioners to allow 4 mm translation of the sample stage in all three directions. 4.The nanopositioners shall be fitted with encoders for closed loop operation. 5.The sample stage will include x-y scanning over 20 micrometers square with 10 micrometers in the z-direction. 6.The nanopositioner/scanner combination must allow the sample to be held within 10 nm of a selected position for 100 s. 7.The microscope probe head must include a cantilever mount with dither piezo and fiber optic interferometer readout of the cantilever deflection. 8.A vector magnet system is required to supply magnetic fields up to 5 Tesla in both the vertical and horizontal directions. 9.The temperature of the microscope in the magnet must be controlled with a precision of 0.1 K at arbitrary set points from 5 K to 300 K. 10.Vibration levels must be low enough that the cantilever noise for an ultrasoft cantilever such as the BioLever B from Olympus (k = 5x10−3 N/m, Q=4500, f = 3 kHz) is dominated by thermal noise. 11.The microscope must be supplied with all the control and power supply electronics for the nanopositioner, scanner, interferometer, magnetic fields, and temperature control. 12.Control software for the microscope must be open, allowing users full control of the system components via LabView software. NIST is seeking responses from all responsible sources, including large, foreign, and small businesses. Small businesses are defined under the associated NAICS code for this effort, 334516, as those domestic sources having 500 employees or less. Please include your company’s size classification in any response to this notice. Companies that manufacture magnetic force microscopes are requested to email a detailed report describing their abilities to todd.hill@nist.gov no later than the response date for this sources sought notice. The report should include achievable specifications and any other information relevant to your product or capabilities. Also, the following information is requested to be provided as part of the response to this sources sought notice: 1. Name of the company that manufactures the system components for which specifications are provided. 2. Name of company(ies) that are authorized to sell the system components, their addresses, and a point of contact for the company (name, phone number, fax number and email address). 3. Indication of number of days, after receipt of order that is typical for delivery of such systems. 4. Indication of whether each instrument for which specifications are sent to todd.hill@nist.gov are currently on one or more GSA Federal Supply Schedule contracts and, if so, the GSA FSS contract number(s). 5. Any other relevant information that is not listed above which the Government should consider in developing its minimum specifications and finalizing its market research.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: NIST, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 20899, United States
- Zip Code: 20899
- Zip Code: 20899
- Record
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