SOLICITATION NOTICE
A -- Dynamic Sorption Breakthrough Analyzer
- Notice Date
- 8/16/2016
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 334513
— Instruments and Related Products Manufacturing for Measuring, Displaying, and Controlling Industrial Process Variables
- Contracting Office
- NASA/George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, Office of Procurement, Marshall Space Flight Center, Alabama, 35812, United States
- ZIP Code
- 35812
- Solicitation Number
- NNM16593572P
- Point of Contact
- Marlyce R. Alexander, Phone: 2565448344, Belinda F. Triplett, Phone: 2565443203
- E-Mail Address
-
marlyce.r.alexander@nasa.gov, belinda.f.triplett@nasa.gov
(marlyce.r.alexander@nasa.gov, belinda.f.triplett@nasa.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) has a requirement for "Dynamic Sorption Breakthrough Analyzer (DSBA)" which will be procured from Quantachrome Instruments in Boynton Beach, FL. The DSBA effort will support the Life Support Systems (LSS) Project under the Advance Exploration Systems (AES) Program in the development of Environmental Control and Life Support Systems (ECLSS) for exploration spacecraft systems. The DSBA will be used to investigate complex dynamic sorption process and to measure the adsorption of binary mixtures as well as provide post-test analysis. In addition, the DSBA is the only commercially available instrument that is capable of meeting all of the following requirements: (a) Temperature control of the bed and inlet gas from 0°C to 350°C, (b) Bi-directional gas flow, (c) Pressure control from vacuum to above ambient, (d) Gas composition control and real-time measurement in the 10 ppm range, (e) Water vapor control up to a dew point of 50F at maximum flow rate, (f) Software to control the system and record data, and (g) Sample cell of at least 100mL. Competition is impractical for the following reasons: (1) Modifications of an instrument from any other source will require significant redesign, hardware modification, software modification, and testing. (2) Any schedule delay would conflict with the programmatic needs of this effort for a near-term flight experiment on the International Space Station (ISS) that is scheduled for September 2017. In addition, the delay of the CO2 sorbent testing will hinder efforts to optimize CO2 removal systems, and could lead to the selection of a non-optimal technology. (3) Resulting inefficiencies could cost NASA in terms of higher launch masses, greater power requirements, and larger volume requirements not only for the ISS flight experiment but more critically for the Mars Transit Mission (the mission that these systems are being designed for and are ultimately to be used on). (4) NASA requires that these capabilities are available in the shortest possible time in order to evaluate materials for a near-term flight experiments. The Government does not intend to acquire a commercial item using FAR Part 12. Interested organizations may submit their capabilities and qualifications to perform the effort in writing to the identified point of contact not later than 4:30 p.m. central time on Friday, 08/26/2016. Such capabilities/qualifications will be evaluated solely for the purpose of determining whether or not to conduct this procurement on a competitive basis. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed effort on a full and open competition basis, based upon responses to this notice, is solely within the discretion of the government. Oral communications are not acceptable in response to this notice. All responsible sources may submit an offer which shall be considered by the agency. NASA Clause 1852.215-84, Ombudsman, is applicable. The Center Ombudsman for this acquisition can be found at http://prod.nais.nasa.gov/pub/pub_library/Omb.html.
- Web Link
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- Place of Performance
- Address: Quantachrome Instruments, 1900 Corporation Drive, Boynton Beach, Florida, 33426, United States
- Zip Code: 33426
- Zip Code: 33426
- Record
- SN04226066-W 20160818/160816235637-de3a6cc1088d2f88221cdd99a60355f3 (fbodaily.com)
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