SOURCES SOUGHT
66 -- RECOVERY-HIGH-RATE TENSILE TEST MACHINE
- 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-SS24
- 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 high-rate, tensile test machine to support the operations and research of the Metallurgy Division. The machine will be used to characterize the tensile stress-strain behavior of metals such as automotive sheet steel, aluminum, and magnesium at strain rates, de/dt, in the range 0.1 1/s < de/dt < 400 1/s. After NIST obtains and analyzes the results of this market research and develops specifications for a high-rate tensile test machine that can meet NIST's minimum requirements, NIST may conduct a competitive procurement and subsequently award a Purchase Order. If NIST identifies at least two qualified small businesses during this market research stage, then any competitive procurement that resulted would be conducted as a small business set-aside. This contemplated procurement is anticipated to use Recovery Act Funding if it is determined that responsible sources can satisfy the requirements. Requirements NIST has a need for a high-rate tensile test machine that can meet the following five requirements: 1. able to impose a uniform, constant, tensile strain rate of at least 400 1/s on a test specimen with a uniform cross-section length, dimension A of ASTM E8, at least A=25 mm, a width, w=6 mm, and a thickness, t=3 mm. This requirement implies that the machine can attain an actuator velocity of at least 14 m/s. 2. able to sustain and measure a specimen load of at least 25 kN at the highest strain rate attainable, 3. capable of acquiring at least 100 load-displacement points during a test lasting 0.6 ms, and having at least two and preferably six additional channels for acquiring temperature or strain-gauge signals, 4. include an integrated signal-conditioning system for exciting and reading at least two strain-gauges mounted to the specimen, and 5. include a three-dimensional digital image correlation system capable of measuring the local strain in the gauge section at a rate concomitant with the rest of the data acquisition system. Such a strain-measurement system should include, in addition to the camera system, suitable software to analyze the resulting images to determine the specimen strain. NIST seeks responses from all responsible sources, including large, foreign, and small businesses. Small businesses are defined under the associated NAICS code for this effort, 334519, as those domestic sources having 500 employees or fewer. Please include your company’s size classification in any response to this notice. Companies that manufacture high-rate tensile test machines 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, please provide 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 that 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
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