SPECIAL NOTICE
66 -- Scientific Imaging EMCCD Camera
- Notice Date
- 2/9/2016
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- 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
- NB620030-16-01398
- Archive Date
- 3/10/2016
- Point of Contact
- Cory L. Worley, Phone: 3019753635
- E-Mail Address
-
cory.worley@nist.gov
(cory.worley@nist.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), intends to negotiate a firm fixed price purchase order, on a sole source basis, with Roper Scientific, Inc. of Trenton, NJ for the purchase of a Scientific Imaging EMCCD Camera under other than full and open competition by the authority of FAR subpart 13.106(1)(b). The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)/Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST) enables science and industry by providing essential measurement methods, instrumentation, and standards to support all phases of nanotechnology development, from discovery to production. The Nanofabrication Research Group within the CNST plans to conduct several sensitive optical spectroscopy measurements that requires the use of a scientific imaging camera. The acquisition will support research in the CNST user facility and will be used as a shared resource accessible to researchers from industry, academia, NIST, and other government agencies through collaboration. The required EMCCD Camera must be 100% compatible, in both hardware and software, with the Princeton Instrument IsoPlane spectrometer and LightField software. Roper Scientific Inc., is the only vendor in the commercial marketplace capable of producing a EMCCD Camera that is compatible with the existing hardware and software located within the NIST laboratory. Therefore, Roper Scientific Inc. is uniquely qualified to provide the required scientific imaging EMCCD camera. Delivery shall be FOB Destination, Gaithersburg, MD, and be completed in accordance with the Contractor's commercial schedule. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this acquisition is 334516, and the size standard is 500 employees. No solicitation package will be issued. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive quotations; however, interested persons may identify their interest and capability to respond to this requirement. The Government will consider responses received by 3:00 p.m. (EST) on February 24, 2016. Inquiries will only be accepted via email to cory.worley@nist.gov. No telephone requests will be honored. A determination by the Government not to compete the proposed acquisition based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information received will normally be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement in the future.
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