SOURCES SOUGHT
62 -- Sources Sought for a Co-Brand Agreement for Light-Emitting Diode (LED) Luminaires Manufacturers
- Notice Date
- 1/19/2017
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 335122
— Commercial, Industrial, and Institutional Electric Lighting Fixture Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Comm for Purchase from People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled, Committee for Purchase, Committee for Purchase, 1421 Jefferson Davis Highway, Jefferson Plaza #2, Room 10800, Arlington, Virginia, 22202-3259
- ZIP Code
- 22202-3259
- Solicitation Number
- CP-01-19-17-01
- Archive Date
- 2/23/2017
- Point of Contact
- Sumita Allen, Phone: 703-310-0358
- E-Mail Address
-
sallen@nib.org
(sallen@nib.org)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- On behalf of the U.S. AbilityOne Commission (operating name for the Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled), the independent federal agency that administers the AbilityOne Program, National Industries for the Blind (NIB), a designated central nonprofit agency, is pursuing a potential partnerships with U.S. commercial manufacturers of Light-Emitting Diode (LED) Luminaires for the purpose of providing employment for people who are blind or severely disabled by furnishing such products to the federal government under the AbilityOne Program. If successful, the result will be a co-brand agreement between the manufacturer(s) and the AbilityOne Program, and its registered brands. The ultimate expectation is that the co-branded product will be placed on the AbilityOne Procurement List (PL). For deep renovation/new construction requirements, at minimum, the following product requirements must be met: 1. A line of LED luminaries in 2' x 2', 2 'x 4' and 1 'x 4' size configurations that include one or more of the items below, but is not limited to: a. Designed for new building construction with capabilities to provide occupancy sensor, daylight harvesting, 0-10volt dimming controls and 3000 - 5000 kelvin range temperatures. c. LED boards to be accessible from below for maintenance. Injection molded retainers positively secure diffuser in place. 2.) Metal components are to be powder coated after fabrication with mechanical attachment by screws, rivets, or precision formed tabs. Additional components will include LED light boards, drivers, wiring harnesses, acrylic diffuser lens with linear prisms and associated consumer hardware (rivets, screws, etc) as required that will produce a final assembly of the LED luminaire. 3.) Product will be photo-luminescent tested in the respective affiliate plant in accordance National Institute of Standards (NIST) to Illuminating Engineering Society of North America, (IESNA) LM-79 criteria, packaged and distributed. 4. Meet and/or exceed the FAR and other published Federal standards, including Executive Orders and applicable agency-unique requirements. 5. The solution should have capability to be configured with or without wireless daylight and occupancy sensing commissioned via handheld graphic interface, basic grouping to Zigbee wall switch for on/off/dimming. The specifications for sensor functionality are outlined in the section "Sensor functionality spec" For retrofit requirements, At minimum, the following product requirements must be met: 1. A line of LED luminaries in 2' x 2', 2' x 4' and 1' x 4' size configurations that include one or more of the items below, but is not limited to: a. Designed for renovation/retrofit applications with capabilities to provide occupancy sensor, daylight harvesting, 0-10volt dimming controls and 3500-5000 kelvin range temperatures. The solution should have, at a minimum, the following specifications: •LED boards accessible from below for maintenance •Driver output current/lumen level shall have configurations that support the ability to be field adjustable via near field communication (NFC) by using a smartphone app •Ability to field install an emergency battery back-up to the retrofit kit •Ability to install the retrofit kit without the use of tools •The retrofit kit shall provide a new look and feel to the existing troffer plus shall provide new optics •The retrofit kit shall leave no gap/space around the perimeter of the kit once installed •The kit shall sit on the ceiling grid around the entire perimeter of the kit •The kit shall use hand twistable mechanical fasteners to secure the various pieces together •The light from the diffuser shall fade at the ends of the diffuser to reduce contrast •The retrofit kit shall work with either standard grid (G) ceiling t-grids or narrow (Narrow Faced Grid (NFG) t-grids •The retrofit kit shall be post-painted •To be configurable with or without advanced sensor functionality. The specifications for sensor functionality are outlined in the section "Sensor functionality spec" Sensor functionality spec: 1.Each fixture and/or retrofit kit must have an integral embedded sensor with occupancy, light level and IR sensing capabilities. 2.Occupancy sensor must be passive infrared. 3.ZigBee wireless capability must be built inside each sensor and the sensor should connect with 2 low voltage wires to the LED driver. There should be no other electronic control device besides the sensor and the LED driver in each luminaire or retrofit kit. 4.Up to 40 fixtures must be able to grouped together wirelessly with a simple hand held tool. 5.The system must have two sets of occupancy timeouts - one timeout to change the light level from a high level to a low level and the second timeout to change the lights from low level to OFF. 6.Fixture should share occupancy information within the programmed group and within the group if fixtures detect occupancy then only those fixtures should deliver higher light levels while fixtures that don't detect occupancy should be dimmed to low light level. The programmed group should turn off only when the entire group is unoccupied for a programmed time. 7.Daylight harvesting should happen at individual fixture level and not at a programmed group level. That is, each fixture should perform individual daylight harvesting depending upon the amount of ambient light levels detected. 8.Programming and configuration of the fixtures should be done via a simple handheld tool like a smartphone app or an IR remote and does not require any laptops or special commissioning software. 9.The programming tool must also allow for NFC based configuration changes and must also read out individual fixture power consumption values. 10.The programming should have the capability to individually alter sensor occupancy timeouts, activate/deactivate occupancy and daylight sensing features, and also adjust maximum output of the fixture. 11.The system should allow a wireless dimmer switch to override the sensor determined light levels. 12.The wireless dimmer switch must not be mains powered or must not have any batteries. 13.The system should be flexible to be configured in either Auto ON/ Auto OFF mode, Manual ON / Auto OFF mode or Manual ON / Manual OFF mode. To be considered for the partner opportunity, the following criteria at a minimum must be met by the commercial manufacturer: 1. Possession of a nationally-known brand name that can be demonstrated to have significant appeal through evidence of substantial sales and market share. 2. Manufacturer's response must include applicable safety data sheets (SDS) and general product information. 3. Execute a multi-year agreement AbilityOne Program participant, which includes on-going technical and production assistance while enabling the selected nonprofit agency to meet the suitability criteria of the AbilityOne Program in the production process by delivering the Build of Materials (BOM) to the nonprofit agency's facility in the BULK form and instructing the nonprofit agency in proper techniques to complete the manufacturing and subsequent packaging of the products, thereby creating employment for people who are blind or severely disabled. 4. The chosen commercial manufacturer must be willing to set a high priority for delivering the materials to the nonprofit agency in order to assure the agency of on-time deliveries to the end-use customers. 5. Commitment to working cooperatively with AbilityOne personnel to market the products to government customers under the AbilityOne Program. 6. Willingness to work with the selected nonprofit agency, NIB and the Committee to ensure that the products' price to end-users is a fair and reasonable price. 7. Manufacturer's submission must demonstrate that the specific products meet the various criteria, as well as indicate what functions the nonprofit agency's employees would perform. Submission should recommend ways to maximize the employment for people who are blind or severely disabled in the fulfillment of the products. The deadline for response is February 22, 2017. The WRITTEN, ELECTRONIC, response should be directed to the contact listed in this Notice. Responses should address each of the product and manufacturer criteria specified above. Questions should be directed, in writing, to Sumita Allen (sallen@nib.org) NOTE: The e-mail's subject line should begin with ‘Question: Sources Sought
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- Place of Performance
- Address: 1310 Braddock Place, Alexandria, Virginia, 22314, United States
- Zip Code: 22314
- Zip Code: 22314
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