SOURCES SOUGHT
95 -- Sources Sought for titanium pins
- Notice Date
- 7/13/2016
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 331491
— Nonferrous Metal (except Copper and Aluminum) Rolling, Drawing, and Extruding
- 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
- NB646010-16-04278
- Archive Date
- 8/9/2016
- Point of Contact
- Erik Frycklund, Phone: 3019756176
- E-Mail Address
-
erik.frycklund@nist.gov
(erik.frycklund@nist.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Sources Sought for titanium pins containing 215 mg/kg chemically bound hydrogen for creation of a SRM. The National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST) seeks information on vendors that are capable of providing titanium pins specially prepared containing hydrogen at a target mass fraction of 215 mg/kg with the final product containing between 210 mg/kg and 220 mg/kg total hydrogen. The purpose of this notice is to identify organizations capable of meeting these requirements. This announcement is not a Request for Proposals or Quotes (RFP/RFQ) and does not commit the Government to award a contract now or in the future. The information contained in this notice is DRAFT only and as such, is subject to change prior to issuance of a solicitation. No solicitation is available at this time. After results of this market research are obtained and analyzed, NIST may conduct a competitive or non-competitive procurement and subsequently award a contract. NIST is aware of one vendor, who offers services meeting these requirements, and will use the results of this sources sought notice to determine whether to proceed on a sole source basis or competitively if it is determined that other commercial vendors could potentially meet NIST's needs. NIST is seeking responses from all responsible vendors, including large and small businesses. This requirement is assigned a NAICS code of 331491 with a small business size standard of 750 employees. NIST is seeking titanium pins containing chemically bound hydrogen for the creation of a Standard Reference Material. Hydrogen contents of alloys must be controlled because hydrogen can cause embrittlement, increasing the likelihood of failure of a machine part manufactured with the alloy. Due to titanium alloys being used in key components of airplane bodies and wings, and other transportation, aerospace, and power generation equipment, the impact of failure may be catastrophic. Therefore, stringent specifications have been placed on hydrogen content, and manufacturers routinely test their products against those specifications. NIST developed a preferred process for dosing titanium with known quantities of hydrogen described in a paper by R. Paul and R. Lindstrom (Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A - Physical Metallurgy and Materials Science, Vol. 43A, Issue 12, pp 4888-4895 (2012)). The titanium is taken to high temperature in a vacuum enclosure to remove all native hydrogen, followed by dosing with a known quantity of hydrogen introduced into the system. The dosed titanium is then taken through a heat treatment process to convert all hydrogen to chemically bound forms that are stable and will not allow the hydrogen to diffuse out of the metal. The NIST process shows by residual gas analysis whether all hydrogen is converted to chemically bound forms. NIST prefers to have material made by the described process, but will consider variations from the process with technical justifications. Prior to the award of any contract, the contractor must have in operation a system for processing titanium to contain hydrogen in chemically bound forms only, because the NIST project timeline will not allow for building new capability. The contractor must have expertise in the analytical determination of total hydrogen in titanium using ASTM International E1447 Standard Test Method for Determination of Hydrogen in Titanium and Titanium Alloys by Inert Gas Fusion Thermal Conductivity/Infrared Detection Method with gas dosing calibration. Interested business organizations that believe they may be capable of meeting NIST's desired specifications detailed below should provide a capability statement demonstrating the ability of the vendor to meet all of NIST's requirements. Vendors may provide supplemental information within this document or as an attachment at their discretion.
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