SOLICITATION NOTICE
66 -- SUPPORT CONTRACT FOR MULTIPLE NIST FACILITIES
- Notice Date
- 2/25/2016
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 541712
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)
- 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
- SB1341-16-RP-0004
- Archive Date
- 4/9/2016
- Point of Contact
- Lynda M Roark, Phone: 3019753725, Patrick K Staines, Phone: (301)975-6335
- E-Mail Address
-
Lynda.Roark@nist.gov, patrick.staines@nist.gov
(Lynda.Roark@nist.gov, patrick.staines@nist.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- This is not a solicitation. This is a Pre-Solicitation Notice of an upcoming action in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) 5.204. This Pre-Solicitation Notice is issued solely for informational and planning purposes only. It does not constitute a Request for Proposal (RFP) or a promise to issue an RFP in the future. This Pre-Solicitation Notice does not commit the Government to contract for any supply or service whatsoever. Further, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is not at this time seeking proposals, and will not accept unsolicited proposals. Respondents are advised that NIST will not pay for any information or administrative cost incurred in response to this Pre-Solicitation Notice. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Physical Measurement Laboratory (PML) has a requirement for Support for the Infrared Optical Properties of Materials (IROPM) Facility, Low Background Infrared (LBIR) Facility, Hyperspectral Imaging Facility, and Optical Properties of Materials (OPM) Facility Contract. As part of its efforts to meet national needs in defense, homeland security, climate change science, and advanced manufacturing, the Sensor Science Division (SSD) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) maintains and advances several facilities. The NIST Infrared Optical Properties of Materials (IROPM) Facility provides the scientific community with standard infrared reference samples and services to quantitatively measure the infrared-optical properties of user supplied-samples. The Infrared (IR) Spectrophotometry laboratory within the IROPM Facility provides this service for wavelengths between 1 µm and 18 µm and into the far-IR, with the use of Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) spectrometers and sources that operate under ambient conditions. For signal detection the facility uses a wide range of detectors including those that need to be operated under vacuum-cryogenic conditions. The IROPM Facility has established high accuracy infrared reflectance, transmittance, and emittance capabilities for wavelengths between 1 µm and 18 µm, but these are in the process of being upgraded. Near-normal absolute spectral reflectance and transmittance of both specular and diffuse samples can be measured from near ambient to 200 °C using a custom integrating sphere a FTIR spectrometer. Additional capabilities for specular samples include transmittance down to 10 K using an optical cryostat, as well as variable angle transmittance and reflectance using a custom goniometer and polarizers. Special test measurements are performed for both NIST and external customers in government and industry on a wide variety of materials including mirrors, filters, windows, coatings and cavity structures. Emittance and absorptance are obtained indirectly through combining the reflectance and transmittance under identical conditions. The measurement of directional spectral emittance, for sample temperatures up to 1000 °C, can also be performed through comparison of radiance with reference blackbody sources. In addition to the IR Spectrophotometry laboratory, the IROPM Facility includes the Advanced Infrared Radiometry and Imaging (AIRI) laboratory and the Temperature and Emissivity of Metal Powder Samples (TEMPS) laboratory. The AIRI mission is to establish, maintain, disseminate, and advance radiance-temperature and spectral radiance scales under ambient background conditions for Planckian sources with thermodynamic temperatures below the silver freezing point of 961 C. These scales provide traceability to the thermodynamic temperature scale and the International Temperature Scale of 1990 for internal and external customers performing radiance temperature measurements under ambient background conditions above 200 K. The TEMPS laboratory is a test-bed under development, and will serve the advanced manufacturing industry by enabling the emissivity measurement of laser-heated/melted metal powder samples of the type used in additive manufacturing environments. The Low Background Infrared (LBIR) Facility is operated by the NIST SSD to mimic the cold infrared radiation background of space. This facility provides the infrared user community with a calibration base that includes both spectral and broadband measurements in a 20 K background environment. The spectral calibration capability is currently developed in three areas: spectral calibration of low-background infrared detectors, characterization of optical components, and two cryogenic transfer radiometers, the Ballistic-Missile-Defense Transfer Radiometer (BXR) and the Missile-Defense Transfer Radiometer (MDXR), used to evaluate highly collimated infrared sources. A User Transfer Radiometer (UXR) is under development that will be modeled on the MDXR but with improvements to enable users to eventually own and operate their own version. In addition, broadband infrared measurements are performed for the calibration of blackbodies in radiance mode. The Hyperspectral Imaging facility consist of several instruments under development. A Hyperspectral Microscope is under development, whereby complex samples representing microscenes of realistic spectral components are imaged spectrally to study various spectral and spatial variability effects that affect the accuracy of hyperspectral imaging measurements. Also, a Hyperspectral Image Projector (HIP) instrument is under development to enable electro-optical instruments to be tested with realistic dynamic scenes in which the spectrum of light projected into each spatial pixel can have an independently programmable spectrum. To support these efforts, an Infrared Spectral Comparator instrument is under development that uses a Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometer to rapidly calibrate the responsivity of sensors in the infrared spectral region. As part of the Optical Properties of Materials (OPM) facility, the SSD has the Robotic Optical Scatter Instrument (ROSI) instrument, the Five-Axis Reflectance Goniometer (FARG) instrument, and the 3D Texture Imaging (3DTI) instrument. ROSI is a new instrument for measuring reflectance and scattering of spectrally neutral, non-fluorescent samples at room temperature in the ultraviolet to short-wave infrared wavelength range, such as mirrors, diffuse reference reflectance panels for satellite and terrestrial remote sensing, and experimental materials. FARG is currently used to measure the bidirectional distribution reflectance function (BDRF) of gonio-apparent materials and is in the process of being upgraded to measure fluorescent samples. 3DTI is a new instrument under development that will be able to take 3 dimensional images of textured surfaces by using a camera system that has thousands of micro lenses. The applications are in forensics and mainly involve noncontact measurement of impressions such as footprints. It is anticipated that the Service Support Contract will be awarded as Time and Materials, Single Award, Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) Contract, with issuance of subsequent Task Orders, as needed throughout a period of 5 years. (1 base year, plus 4 one (1) year option periods). The NAICS code for this requirement is 541712 with a small business size standard of 500 employees. NIST anticipates setting this procurement aside 100% for Small Business Offerors to fulfill the requirement. The competitive Request for Quotation (RFQ), amendments, and all questions and answers related to this procurement shall be made available via the Internet at HTTP://WWW.FEDBIZOPPS.GOV under RFQ number SB1341-16-RP-0004. Potential offerors shall be responsible for obtaining this solicitation and related Amendments, if any, from www.fbo.gov after the solicitation has been posted. It is, and will continue to be, the responsibility of each potential Offeror to monitor www.fbo.gov for any amendments or other information related to the solicitation. Any communications regarding this acquisition must be made in writing and forwarded via email to Lynda.Roark@nist.gov, and shall identify the solicitation number, company name, company address, as well as point of contact email address and phone number. Offerors shall be actively registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) website at www.sam.gov, in order to be eligible to receive a contract under this acquisition. NIST anticipates posting the solicitation approximately thirty (30) days after the date of publication of this notice. THERE IS NO WRITTEN SOLICITATION DOCUMENT AVAILABLE UNTIL THE SOLICITATION IS POSTED AT FBO, TELEPHONE REQUESTS WILL NOT BE HONORED, AND NO BIDDERS LIST WILL BE MAINTAINED. Potential offerors are requested to direct all questions via email to Lynda.Roark@nist.gov.
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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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