SOURCES SOUGHT
66 -- SOURCES SOUGHT: Ultra-high Frequency Lock-in Amplifier and Boxcar Averager
- Notice Date
- 8/5/2014
- 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 B130, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 20899-1410, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20899-1410
- Solicitation Number
- AMD-14-SS49
- Archive Date
- 8/26/2014
- Point of Contact
- Paula Wilkison, Phone: 301-975-8448, Patrick Staines, Phone: (301) 975-6335
- E-Mail Address
-
paula.wilkison@nist.gov, patrick.staines@nist.gov
(paula.wilkison@nist.gov, patrick.staines@nist.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) seeks information on commercial vendors that are capable of providing an ultra-high frequency lock-in amplifier and boxcar averager to support research in the Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology user facility. The NIST CNST has a requirement for an acquisition of an ultra-high frequency lock-in amplifier and boxcar averager. The instrument is intended for measurements of repetitive time-dependent waveforms combined with an additional periodic modulation at sampling rates up to 1.8 GHz and operation frequency up to 600 MHz. The device is needed to develop, in combination with other tools and instruments at CNST, a specialized measurement technique to identify electrically active trap states in polycrystalline photovoltaic materials with high spatial resolution. Specific requirements include: 1) The lock-in shall offer bandwidth of 600 MHz. This bandwidth is required to enable the analysis of critical processes not measurable otherwise. 2) Instrument shall also perform as a boxcar averager. This is required as it allows data acquisition to be implemented much more efficiently (parallel acquisition of data vs. sequential data acquisition in an analog boxcar) and at shorter time scales. 3) Instrument shall offer high sensitivity and 16-bit data resolution. 4) Instrument shall offer combined functionalities of lock-in and boxcar averager with internal built-in syncronization between frequency and time domain operations. This combined functionality is required to expand possible range of operation/analysis in time/frequency domain in comparison with integration of stand-alone devices with single functionality (e.g. combination of separate lock-in and boxcar and/or oscilloscope) After results of this market research are obtained and analyzed and specifications developed for the ultra-high frequency lock-in amplifier and boxcar averager, 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 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, 334515, 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 such ultra-high frequency lock-in amplifier and boxcar averagers are requested to email a detailed report describing their abilities to paula.wilkison@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(s) 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 paula.wilkison@nist.gov is currently on one or more GSA Federal Supply Schedule contracts and, if so, the GSA FSS contract number(s). 5. Provide experience in the design and construction of ultra-high frequency lock-in amplifier and boxcar averagers. 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. Point of Contact Paula Wilkison, Contract Specialist, Phone (301) 975-8448, email paula.wilkison@nist.gov
- Web Link
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FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/DOC/NIST/AcAsD/AMD-14-SS49/listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Address: TBD, United States
- Record
- SN03451116-W 20140807/140806000045-3d30bc912947fb6d935364efb9d95e2e (fbodaily.com)
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