SOURCES SOUGHT
R -- Economic Impact Study
- Notice Date
- 6/12/2012
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541990
— All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
- 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
- 12-03643
- Archive Date
- 7/3/2012
- Point of Contact
- Carol A. Wood, Phone: 301-975-8172, Carol A. Wood, Phone: 301-975-8172
- E-Mail Address
-
carol.wood@nist.gov, carol.wood@nist.gov
(carol.wood@nist.gov, carol.wood@nist.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- This is a SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE for market research purposes. NIST is seeking Contractors with the capabilities specified herein. THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS. The U. S. Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Engineering Laboratory (EL) plans to conduct a retrospective economic impact study on manufacturing system integration standards. Product data exchange is common in almost all discrete parts manufacturing industries. But as the complexity of the design stages, production processes, and final products increase within integrated supply chains, the potential for interoperability problems increases as well. The Standard for Exchange of Product (STEP) model data is a set of standards that facilitate the seamless transfer of digital representations of engineering and manufacturing data. Such representations are known as product models, and the digital information they are composed of is known as product model data. Interoperability problems in the exchange of electronic product model data represent a significant cost to manufacturing companies. These costs are primarily due to supporting multiple CAx systems and correcting errors introduced in the exchange of product model data. Together, computer-aided design (CAD), computer-aided manufacturing (CAM), computer-aided engineering (CAE), and product data management (PDM) systems are referred to as CAx. CAx interoperability is the ability to communicate data from one software system to another. NIST has made significant contributions to STEP, beginning in the mid 1980s and continuing today. NIST has contributed to the development of the STEP suite of standards, the integration of STEP functionality into applications, and the adoption of STEP functionality by end users. NIST is contemplating issuing a contract to conduct an economic impact study. The contemplated study will quantify the impact NIST has had in accelerating the development and use of STEP standards to retrospectively analyze the economic impact NIST has had in the development and adoption of international standards designed to reduce interoperability problems inherent in the exchange of digital product information. The scope of the study will be limited to two key segments of the U.S. manufacturing industry: The transportation equipment industries (automotive, aerospace, shipbuilding, and specialty tool and die) and the electronics manufacturing industries. The intended study will produce revised estimates of both benefits and costs that have occurred since publication of an earlier study in 2002 for the transportation equipment industries and new estimates for the electronics manufacturing industries. 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, 541990, as those domestic sources having annual receipts of $14.0 million or less. Please include your company's size classification in any response to this notice. To complete the contemplated services, potential offerors must have knowledge, expertise and experience in all of the following areas: (1) The offeror's team must include key personnel that include all of the following areas of expertise: an economist, a mechanical engineer, an individual or individuals with strategic IT background and program management background; (2) Expertise and experience in conducting analyses of cost savings potential; (3) Expertise and experience with technology changes and improvements; (4) Experience with research findings resulting in cycle time reduction; (5) Expertise and experience with technological innovation; (6) Expertise and experience working in a Federal Government environment, specifically with surveys and the Paperwork Reduction Act clearance process. Companies that maintain any or all of the capabilities above are requested to email a detailed report describing their abilities to carol.wood@nist.gov no later than the response date for this sources sought notice. The report must include clear and concise documentation of the Contractor's knowledge, expertise and experience in areas 1 through 6 identified above, and any other information relevant to your capabilities. Also, the following information must be provided as part of the response to this sources sought notice: 1. Name and business size of the company; 2. Name of company(ies), including potential subcontractors, their addresses, and a point of contact for the company (name, phone number, fax number and email address); 3. Do the required labor categories exist under one or more GSA Federal Supply Schedule contracts and, if so, the GSA FSS contract number(s); 4. Any other relevant information that is not listed above which the Government should consider in finalizing its market research. All documentation must be sent to Carol A. Wood, Contract Specialist, at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Acquisition Management Division, 100 Bureau Drive, Mail Stop 1640, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-1640. E-mail address: CAROL.WOOD@NIST.GOV. Submission must be received not later than 3:30 PM local time on June 18, 2012.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: NIST, 100 Bureau Drive, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 20899, United States
- Zip Code: 20899
- Zip Code: 20899
- Record
- SN02773430-W 20120614/120612235430-7a1761dadb5541ead502c787559d1b79 (fbodaily.com)
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