SOURCES SOUGHT
66 -- Robot arms and gripper for x-ray diffractometer sample loading system
- Notice Date
- 1/17/2018
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- 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
- SB1341-18-SS1
- Archive Date
- 2/13/2018
- Point of Contact
- Heather Bauer, Phone: 3019752752
- E-Mail Address
-
heather.bauer@nist.gov
(heather.bauer@nist.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Sources Sought Notice Subject: Robot arms and gripper for x-ray diffractometer sample loading system The National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST) seeks suppliers that can provide a pair of robot arms and a single gripper to load and unload samples from x-ray diffractometers. 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 a 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. If at least two qualified small business sources are identified during this market research stage, this acquisition may be solicited as a small business set aside. NIST is seeking responses from all responsible sources, including large and small businesses (SB, SDB, WOSB, HUB Zone, SDVOSB and VOSB). This requirement is assigned a NAICS code of 334516 with a Small Business Size Standard of 1000 employees. This notice seeks to identify any contractors that may be capable of performing NIST's requirements described below. Interested business organizations that believe they may be capable of meeting NIST's requirements should respond to this notice with a narrative demonstrating their ability to meet NIST's requirements. Contractors may provide supplemental information at their discretion. Responses should be submitted to Grace.Parker@nist.gov by 5:00 PM ET on January 29, 2018. NIST's potential requirements are described below: 1.must be a 6-axis robot arm 2.robot arm base footprint must be less than 150 mm wide by 200 mm long, where the long axis is defined as the axis along which the first arm joint is at its central rotation position. 3.must have repeatability of better than 0.010 mm (10 µm) according to ISO 9283 procedure 4.must be compatible with (i.e. have full models and translators) provided for commercial RoboDK software, which will be used to develop, program, and control the system 5.must have a reach of at least 250 mm at the wrist center (wrist is 2nd-to-last axis of standard 6-axis geometry) 6.must be able to carry a payload of at least 500 grams to all positions 7.tool mounting plate on end of robot must be between 25 mm and 50 mm in diameter 8.length from wrist joint to tool mounting must be between 70 mm and 100 mm 9.must have an available gripper which can be attached as needed, or system used without gripper 10.gripper must have at least 20 N grip force, and a total stroke of at least 5 mm 11.robot controller must communicate via a standard Ethernet TCP/IP interface (100 Mbps or 1 Gbps ethernet) using a protocol which is fully documented and accessible to external programs which can open a network socket (of type known as AF_INET on Posix-based operating systems) to it. 12.controller for arm is not required to be integral in mounting base, although this is desirable. If controller is separate, it must connect to the mounting base by an umbilical cable which can be at least 2 meters long. 13.mass of arm with mounting base preferred to be < 10 kg
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