SPECIAL NOTICE
66 -- Loading System
- Notice Date
- 2/15/2017
- 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
- NB735150-17-01434
- Archive Date
- 3/10/2017
- Point of Contact
- Prateema E. Carvajal, Phone: 301-975-4390, Keith Bubar, Phone: 3019758329
- E-Mail Address
-
prateema.carvajal@nist.gov, keith.bubar@nist.gov
(prateema.carvajal@nist.gov, keith.bubar@nist.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- This announcement is a Sources Sought Notice. It is not a Request for Quote (RFQ) and does not commit the Government to award a contract now or in the future. No solicitation is available at this time. The Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) seeks information on commercial vendors that are capable of providing a Loading System for in-situ XCT Measurements. Contracting Office Address The Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Acquisition Management Division, 100 Bureau Drive, Building 301, Room B129, Mail Stop 1640, Gaithersburg, MD, 20899-1640 NIST does not intend to award a contract on the basis of this Notice and otherwise pay for the information requested. No entitlement or payment of direct or indirect costs or charges by NIST will arise as a result of submission of responses to this Notice and NIST use of such information. NIST recognizes that proprietary components, interfaces and equipment, and clearly mark restricted or proprietary components, interfaces and equipment, and clearly mark restricted or proprietary data and present it as an addendum to the non-restricted/non-proprietary information. In the absence of such identification, NIST will assume to have unlimited rights to all technical data in the information paper. BACKGROUND INFORMATION The Production Systems Group (PSG) of the intelligent Systems Division (ISD) is investigating the failure mechanism of additively manufactured parts with defects using in-situ mechanical tests monitored by X-ray computed Tomography (XCT). To accomplish the goals of this investigation, PSG needs to acquire a suitable mechanical loading system that can be installed on the available XCT systems at NIST to load the specimens until failure while observing the changes in material behavior by XCT. Requirement: NIST is seeking information from all vendors who can provide a solution that meets the following requirements: Minimum technical requirements of the loading system: • To be compatible for installation on the following XCT systems: ZEISS VERSA 500 series, Nikon XTH225, and North Star Imaging (NSI) CXMM 50 • The overall dimension shall be less than or equal to 117 mm x 135 mm x 294 mm • A maximum system weight of 4.5 kg • The sample area of the load frame should be fully-transparent to X-rays (with minimal X-ray attenuation) during 360o rotation of the load frame/sample • A load cell with a capacity of at least 5 kN (5000 N) in both tension and compression with an accuracy of ± 1 % • Allowable travel distance of 10 mm for displacement of a specimen • Grips/jaws for tensile specimens (flat and cylindrical) and compression test specimens • Availability of compatible heating and cooling cells for a future upgrade Interested parties shall describe the capabilities and experience of their organization and personnel as it relates to the requirements described above. NIST is seeking responses from all responsible vendors. The small business size standard associated with the NAICS code for this effort, 3334516, Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing, with a size standard of 1,000 Employees. Please include your company's size classification and socio-economic status in any response to this notice. After results of this market research are obtained and analyzed, NIST may conduct a competitive procurement and subsequently award a contract. Companies that can provide such services are requested to email a written response describing their abilities to Prateema.carvajal@nist.gov no later than the response date for this sources sought notice. Requirements for Responding to this notice: All interested capable Vendors may respond to this notice by submitting a Capability Statement. The statement should include the following, at minimum: 1) Name, Address, DUNS number, CAGE code, company website URL and point of contact information of your company. 2) Company size classification and socioeconomic status. 3) Capability statement. 4) Indication of whether the products described in this notice are currently on one or more GSA Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) contracts or other applicable GWAC and, if so, the applicable contract number(s). 5) Any other relevant information that is not listed above which the Government should consider when finalizing its market research Responses are limited to a total of twelve (12) pages. The responses must be in MS Word format. Pages shall be 8½-inch x 11-inch, using Times New Roman 11 Point Font. Each page shall have adequate margins on each side (at least one inch) of the page. Header/footer information (which does not include any information to be analyzed) may be included in the 1" margin space. All responses shall be sent to prateema.carvajal@nist.gov by February 23, 2017 @ 8:00 a.m. Eastern Time with the following subject line "Loading System". Point of Contact Prateema Carvajal, Contract Specialist, Phone (301) 975-4390, Email Prateema.carvajal@nist.gov
- Web Link
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- Place of Performance
- Address: NIST, 100 Bureau Drive, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 20899, United States
- Zip Code: 20899
- Zip Code: 20899
- Record
- SN04404064-W 20170217/170215235007-363592256eae6c05b05ff40463d39b75 (fbodaily.com)
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