SOURCES SOUGHT
66 -- Effluent Monitoring System
- Notice Date
- 6/19/2012
- 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-12-SS34
- Archive Date
- 7/18/2012
- Point of Contact
- Todd D Hill, Phone: 301-975-8802
- E-Mail Address
-
todd.hill@nist.gov
(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 Effluent Monitoring systems. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Center for Neutron Research (NCNR) owns and operates a 20 MW Test Reactor. This reactor is licensed by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) under the name NBSR (National Bureau of Standards (NBS) Reactor; NBS is a former name of NIST). The purpose of the NBSR is to be a steady state source of neutron radiation that is being used to perform a variety of radiation experiments under the research programs of the NCNR. The NBSR is equipped with five Effluent Monitoring Systems which monitor Normal Air, Irradiated Air, Fission Products Gas (Helium), and two Stack Air monitors. The systems are designed to detect radioactive materials within airborne effluent and alarm when they have exceeded safe levels. The Normal Air and Irradiated Air systems are collocated in a hallway, while the Fission Products Air system and the Stack Monitor Air system are collocated in a separate room whose background changes depending on rector operation. The Normal Air and Irradiated Air system are both contained in one floor mounted unit. They are each fed by 3/4" sample lines 50 feet long. Each system consists of a digital rate meter, air filter, pump, and GM detector inside a lead lined sample chamber. The Fission monitoring system samples a pressurized helium coming from the reactor. The sample chamber is attached to a 1/4" sample line 20 feet long. It consists of a digital rate meter, filter, and GM detector inside a lead lined sample chamber. The Stack Monitoring system are presently divided into two systems, one low range and the other for high range. Each Stack monitoring system consists of a digital rate meter and GM detectors inserted into one of our stacks. The Stack Monitoring system may be combined into one system. After results of this market research are obtained and analyzed and specifications are developed for Effluent Monitoring systems 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 an effluent monitoring system that would meet the following requirements: a. Sensing Range: 10 to 106 counts per minute (cpm). Maximum scale reading corresponds to 10 µCi/mL. b. Main Nuclide of interest: Argon (41), Krypton (83, 85, 87, 88), Xenon (131, 133, 135, 137, 138) c. Analog (logarithmic) output: 4-20 ma (Range 10 to 106 ) for remote metering d. Alarm output: Field settable Dry Contact Alarm output, SPDT contacts e. Sample time: Capable of measuring a radioactive alarming sample within 5 minutes. f. Metering: Local digital g. Rate meter power: 115Vac, 60Hz operation h. Pump voltage available: 208 Vac single phase. Other voltages available at NIST discretion. i. Footprint: Not to exceed existing units: Fission products 3'W x 3'D, Normal and Irradiated air 4'W x 3'D. Height not to exceed 7 feet. j. In-house(NCNR) calibration capability of equipment. k. Preference will be given to having all similar components for the all systems where applicable. l. Preferences will be given to having rate meter, sample chamber and pumps all in one unit, movable by one person where applicable. 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 and socio-economic status in any response to this notice. Companies that manufacture such Effluent Monitoring systems are requested to email a detailed response describing their abilities to todd.hill@nist.gov no later than the response date for this sources sought notice. The response 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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