SOURCES SOUGHT
66 -- Adiabatic Demagnetization Refrigerator (ADR)
- Notice Date
- 4/2/2013
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 334515
— Instrument Manufacturing for Measuring and Testing Electricity and Electrical Signals
- 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, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20899-1640
- Solicitation Number
- AMD-13-SS35
- Archive Date
- 4/26/2013
- Point of Contact
- Joni L Laster, Phone: 301-975-8397, Todd D Hill, Phone: 301-975-8802
- E-Mail Address
-
joni.laster@nist.gov, todd.hill@nist.gov
(joni.laster@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 a High Precision Devices (HPD) Adiabatic Demagnetization Refrigerator (ADR) system, Model 103 Rainier or an equivalent model that is capable of meeting the salient characteristics of the brand name identified herein. After results of this market research are obtained and analyzed, 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 requires an ADR-type closed cycle cryocooler to operate cryogenic single-photon detectors in support of its photonic-based quantum information efforts to meet its mission. The extraordinary combination of performance characteristics of these cryogenic photon detectors, with their near unity photon detection efficiencies and the capability to resolve the number of incident photons, are required for a number of the efforts in support of our mission. The purpose of this requirement is to provide a dewar/ adiabatic demagnetization refrigerator (ADR) system with a dewar/closed-cycle refrigerator/ADR system (henceforth referred to as the "cryostat") as per specifications already determined by NIST Boulder for operation of cryogenic single photon detectors. The cryostat that is being procured must be fully compatible (thermally, electrically, mechanically) with an existing cryostat system. It is anticipated that the cryostat will be used in a number of different applications and with a number of types of cryogenic detectors developed at NIST and already in use in our laboratory. In particular this system will be used with transition edge superconducting sensors, which due to their extreme sensitivity put very specific requirements on the cryostat system. As a consequence, the dimensions and clearance of the cryostat, and thermal and electrical environments it provides for cooling and mechanically isolating the detectors and extracting the wiring outputs of the detectors through the cryostat are tightly constrained. The salient characteristics of the High Precision Devices (HPD) Adiabatic Demagnetization Refrigerator (ADR) system, Model 103 Rainier are as follows: 1. The ADR refrigeration system must have a demonstrated record of being used to cool superconducting transition-edge sensors. 2. The unit must be capable of obtaining a base temperature < 100mK and maintaining this temperature in excess of seven (7) days per cooling cycle without a heat load. 3. The unit shall maintain mechanical vibrations at a level that does not interfere with experiments on an optical table. 4. The unit shall be cryogen-free, not requiring liquid nitrogen or liquid helium for operation. 5. The cryocooler must have a cooling power greater than 0.5W at 4.2K to allow for heat sinking many copper wires. 6. A motorized ADR heat switch with controller must be included. 7. The vacuum feedthroughs must be standard KF fittings. There must be at least three KF fittings. At least two must be KF40 or larger. There must be a quick connect clamp for opening the vacuum jacket to allow fast access to the cold stages. 8. There must be a remote motor valve for the cryocooler to reduce EMI from the compressor. Compressor lines from the compressor to the remote valve and from the remote valve to the cryostat must include sound dampening insulation to reduce noise. 9. There must be a stand to hold the ADR that allows for tilt adjustment and vertical height adjustment of more than 25 inches for ease of servicing or placing the cryostat on a table surface. 10. There must be a stage of cooling below 1K for cooling wires that will be connected to electronics at 3K and the detectors at the base temperature. 11. The system must include a thermometry system that monitors and controls the temperature of the stages of the cryocooler, magnet, 1K stage, and base temperature stage. Communications options will include both RS232 and GPIB. All cables and breakout boxes necessary for operation must be included. In addition to a rack mount mainframe for the control system, the following specific modules will be provided to read temperature and control the magnet: a.• AC Resistance Bridge for RuOx measurements and control signal for the magnet controller. b. • PID controller uses RuOx input to control a magnet power supply. c. • Octal multiplexer accepts signals from up to eight RuOx sensors and interfaces with the AC Bridge. d. • Diode Temperature monitor reads and displays the signals from the silicon diode sensors. e. • Quad channel digital voltmeter f. • A bi-polar operational power supply for the ADR magnet. g. • Wiring Break-out Box provides convenient and customizable interconnects between the cryostat and the components of the control system 12. The readout of the base temperature stage must use a low-noise lock-in amplifier so that minimal excitation current is used to measure the temperature. 13. The system must include a 10 Amp power supply to energize the magnet. 14. The system must include the capability to regulate the temperature of the base temperature stage by controlling the current in the magnet. 15. The temperature of the 1st stage must be <50K. 16. The temperature of the 2nd stage must be <3K with the ADR unit installed. 17. There must be radiation shields at the 1st stage (< 50K) temperature of the cryocooler. 18. There must be a radiation shield at the 2nd stage (< 3K) temperature of the cryocooler. 19. There must be enough penetrations through the 1st radiation shield for wiring so that at least 7 micro-d connectors can be mounted. Each micro-d connector will contain 25 connections. The penetrations needed for the thermometry are not included in this count. 20. There must be enough penetrations through the 2nd radiation shield for wiring so that at least 3 micro-d connectors can be mounted. Each micro-d connector will contain 25 connections. 21. There must be an area of at least 5" x 5" on the 2nd stage that is unoccupied and can be used to mount NIST made printed circuit boards for superconducting electronics. 22. There must be a suitable scheme for mounting wiring to the 1K cooling stage. 23. There must be a suitable area for mounting devices to the base temperature stage. 24. The volume of workspace that is enclosed by the 4K radiation shield must be at least 25 cm diameter and 25 cm high and additionally must be large enough so that a 1" x 1" x 4" volume of copper can be mounted to the base temperature stage. In the volume of workspace, suitable room must be there to accommodate 100 twisted pairs of wires and 24 optical fibers. 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 systems that are equivalent to the brand name identified above are requested to email a detailed report describing their abilities to joni.laster@nist.gov no later than the response date for this sources sought notice. The report should include achievable specifications and shall include the manufacturer, make and model of the products, manufacturer sales literature or other product literature which addresses all specifications, and clearly documents that the product meets or exceeds the salient characteristics of the brand name specifications stated above. 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 for which specifications are provided. 2. Name of company(ies) that are authorized to sell the system, 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 identified are currently on one or more GSA Federal Supply Schedule contracts and, if so, the GSA FSS contract number(s). 5. Documentation demonstrating the Contractor's record of the system being used to cool superconducting transition-edge sensors. 6. 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: 100 Bureau Drive, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 20899, United States
- Zip Code: 20899
- Zip Code: 20899
- Record
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