SOURCES SOUGHT
66 -- SOURCES SOUGHT: Service/Maintenance for ASML PAS 5500/275D i-Line Stepper
- Notice Date
- 10/27/2014
- 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 B130, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 20899-1410, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20899-1410
- Solicitation Number
- AMD-15-SS06
- Archive Date
- 11/25/2014
- Point of Contact
- Paula Wilkison, Phone: 301-975-8448, Patrick K 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 maintenance, emergency repair, parts, and calibration services for an ASML PAS 5500/275D i-Line stepper unit. Specific requirements include: 1. GENERAL The vendor shall provide trained service personnel to perform all necessary equipment repair and service on this equipment. Service personnel shall be factory trained and certified on using the COACH diagnostic service package and all tools and parts required to service the equipment shall be factory certified. 2. EQUIPMENT COVERED: The following tool shall be covered by this service contract: ASML PAS 5500/275D i-Line stepper - serial # 3740 The service contract shall include all system components including system workstations and software upgrades. 3. SCHEDULED SERVICE The vendor shall provide monthly preventative maintenance of the system ensuring optimum performance of the tool. This shall include replacement of any and all parts deemed unsatisfactory discovered during this routine maintenance. 4. UNSCHEDULED SERVICE The vendor shall provide for service personnel to be onsite at NIST within 24 hours after an emergency service call is placed. Business hours are considered as Monday through Friday, 8 am - 5 pm excluding federal holidays. To insure a prompt response, service personnel assigned to this tool shall be geographically located within a two hour travel time radius from Gaithersburg, Maryland. 5. PAST PERFORMANCE The vendor shall be able to provide a minimum of three references for similar service contracts issued for maintenance of an ASML PAS i-Line system. After results of this market research are obtained and analyzed and specifications are developed for a service contract 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 will 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, 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 provide maintenance service for ASML i-Line stepper systems 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 service 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 provides the required services. 2. Address and a point of contact for the company (name, phone number, fax number and email address). 3. DUNS number for the company, if available. 4. Indication of whether the services provided 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. Point of Contact Paula Wilkison, Contract Specialist, Phone (301) 975-8448, email paula.wilkison@nist.gov
- Web Link
-
FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/DOC/NIST/AcAsD/AMD-15-SS06/listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Address: TBD, United States
- Record
- SN03559069-W 20141029/141027235411-a05b8e2a5128fbc2c548381182612a58 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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