SPECIAL NOTICE
66 -- Platform for Qubit Measurement - Notice to Sole Source
- Notice Date
- 7/29/2020 11:29:05 AM
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 334516
— Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- DEPT OF COMMERCE NIST GAITHERSBURG MD 20899 USA
- ZIP Code
- 20899
- Solicitation Number
- NB686050-20-02693
- Response Due
- 8/3/2020 9:00:00 AM
- Archive Date
- 08/18/2020
- Point of Contact
- Patricia Rose, Phone: 3034973106, Angela L. Hitt, Phone: 3034977305
- E-Mail Address
-
patricia.rose@nist.gov, angela.hitt@nist.gov
(patricia.rose@nist.gov, angela.hitt@nist.gov)
- Description
- NOTICE OF INTENT TO SOLE SOURCE: This requirement is conducted under Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 13.501. �This is a notice of intent to negotiate a sole source procurement only and is not a request for competitive quotations. �However, contractors who want to challenge this sole source must submit a capabilities statement that demonstrates their ability to meet this requirement. The capabilities statement must demonstrate your organizations� ability to provide the product(s) and/or service(s) capabilities as described within this notice, as well as the associated Specifications Document. Only responses received by 10:00A.M. Mountain Daylight Time on August 3, 2020, will be considered by the Government directly to Patricia Rose, Contracting Officer, at patricia.rose@nist.gov and email subject header must include title and special number identified herein this posting. No solicitation package will be issued. Responses received will be evaluated; however, a determination by the Government not to compete the proposed procurement based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information received will typically be considered solely to determine whether to conduct a competitive procurement. NIST shall not reimburse for any cost(s) connected with providing the capabilities statement. Therefore, The United States Department of Commerce (DOC), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Acquisition Management Division (AMD) intends to negotiate on a sole-source basis with Intermodulation Products of Sweden. The statutory authority for this acquisition is 41 USC 1901 and FAR 13.501. The requirement is assigned NAICS code 333314 � Optical Instrument and Lens Manufacturing, and Small Business Size Standard is 500 employees. DELIVERABLES: Optical Cavity Fabrication per attached Specifications. ������������ATTACHMENTS/REFERENCES:� see attached specifications. JUSTIFICATION: The Advanced Microwave Photonics Group performs highly sensitive experiments using high speed modulation of microwave fields at cryogenic temperatures to control and measure superconducting quantum circuits. The Group requires the ability to perform fast feedback, where the control signals can be changed in real time based on the outcome of a quantum measurement. These experiments therefore need an instrument which combines arbitrary waveform generation with complex signal analysis, integrated on a common low-latency FPGA control board based. The instrument requires a bandwidth of 4GHz or more for both output and input channels. The Group requires the instrument to provide 8 or more output channels, and 4 or more input channels. All the channels need to be phase coherent with each other. The firmware and software must have the tools to perform low latency feedback without the need to program the instrument at the FPGA level. Market Research identified only one vendor capable of meeting all required specifications for the signal generation platform designed for superconducting quantum circuits capable of low-latency feedback which also include both the number of channels (8 or more) and bandwidth (4GHz or more).
- Web Link
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- Record
- SN05737344-F 20200731/200729230141 (samdaily.us)
- Source
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