SOURCES SOUGHT
99 -- LEAD-CONTAINING COATINGS ON SUBSTRATES FOR REFERENCE MATERIAL DEVELOPMENT
- Notice Date
- 10/14/2021 8:26:51 AM
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 325510
— Paint and Coating Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- DEPT OF COMMERCE NIST GAITHERSBURG MD 20899 USA
- ZIP Code
- 20899
- Solicitation Number
- NIST-MML-22-SS01
- Response Due
- 11/30/2021 9:00:00 AM
- Archive Date
- 12/15/2021
- Point of Contact
- Don Graham, Phone: 3019758567
- E-Mail Address
-
deg@NIST.GOV
(deg@NIST.GOV)
- Description
- Contracting Office Address National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Acquisition Management Division, 100 Bureau Drive, Mail Stop 1640, Gaithersburg, MD, 20899-1640 Sources Sought Notice NIST-MML-22-SS01 Title: LEAD-CONTAINING COATINGS ON SUBSTRATES FOR REFERENCE MATERIAL DEVELOPMENT This is a Sources Sought Notice ONLY.� Requests for copies of a solicitation will not receive a response.� This Notice is for planning purposes only and is not a Request for Proposal or Request for Quotation or an obligation on the part of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for conducting a follow-on acquisition.� NIST does not intend to award a contract on the basis of this Notice, or 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. � NO SOLICITATION DOCUMENTS EXIST AT THIS TIME. Requirement: NIST is seeking information from vendors capable of providing LEAD-CONTAINING COATINGS ON SUBSTRATES FOR REFERENCE MATERIAL DEVELOPMENT. Provide information regarding the following criteria 1.�� The coating must contain the element lead (Pb) at a nominal areic mass (aka �mass coverage�) of 1 mg/cm2 in a dried or cured coating film on a polymer substrate.� The coating must be a reasonable simulant or an example of the types of paints or other coatings commonly applied in the past on the interior or exterior surfaces of buildings used for all manner of purposes such as residential, institutional and industrial. ��� 2.�� The Pb should be incorporated into the coating as part of the compounds that were typically used in Pb-based paints, for example Pb in Pb-chromate or Pb carbonate.� Use of metallic Pb or thin coatings of metallic Pb are not acceptable.� The coating must contain the typical accompanying inorganic components found in Pb-based paints used for the purposes previously described.� Arsenic and arsenic compounds are not allowed in the paint coating as arsenic will interfere with the measurement of the Pb in the paint coating.� It is not necessary for the coating to contain any supplemental organic dyes to color the coating any specific color. 3.�� The coating should be cured on a polymeric substrate, approximately 0.2 mm thick.� The thickness of the cured coating should be on the order of 40 microns; however, the specification on coating thickness is open to discussion if there is an advantage to making the coating thicker or thinner.� An individual piece of the reference material will nominally be square with an approximate diagonal of 45 mm.� The final product is allowed to have a very thin plastic laminate coating on top of the Pb paint coating to protect the Pb coating.� The substrate and plastic laminate coating should be of known nominal thickness and material to be able to report that approximate information to the user.� The typical allowed variation in substrate or laminate thickness should also be reported.� The total allowable lead and arsenic content of the substrate and plastic laminate overcoating should be 0.01 mg/cm2 or less.� The substrate surface roughness should not affect the measurement of the Pb mass coverage.� The cured coating should adhere strongly to the substrate under flexure.� It is desired to have a product with a useable lifetime in excess of 10 years.� If the vendor can demonstrate durability of the paint coating without having the protective overcoating, bearing in mind that typical XRF handheld measurements are typically made by placing the instrument against the sample, then this protective overcoating is not required. 4.�� Piece to piece variance of the Pb areic mass (1 sigma relative) should be nominally 3%.� It is highly desirable for the vendor to have some non-destructive capability to verify the homogeneity of the Pb mass coverage during product production.� For example, a handheld radioisotope-based XRF system measuring the Pb(K) lines @ �74.2 keV might be a suitable way to measure all or some sampling of the pieces to verify product homogeneity.� Handheld systems can be leased for defined periods of time rather than purchasing the equipment.� Coating systems with on-line, real-time production control of the Pb mass coverage from batch to batch, would be highly desirable. 5.�� The total quantity of individual reference material pieces needed is approximately 8,000.� NIST will conduct testing on a randomized subset of the total manufactured set to ensure the above specifications are met prior to acceptance of the material. A good example of the material being sought is NIST Standard Reference Material 2573, although the requirement for the organic coloring of the material, in this case, red, has been dropped.� Please see NIST�s SRM website:� https://www-s.nist.gov/srmors/view_detail.cfm?srm=2573 NIST is seeking responses from all responsible sources, including large, foreign, and small businesses.� Small businesses are defined under the associated NAICS code for this effort, 334516, as those domestic sources having 500 employees or less.� Please include your company�s size classification in any response to this notice.� Interested parties shall describe the capabilities of their organization as it relates to the requirement described above.� NIST anticipates issuing a Request for Quotation in the first or second quarter of FY2022 and awarding a contract no later than the third quarter of FY2022. NIST is seeking responses from all responsible sources, including large and small businesses. The small business size standard associated with the NAICS code for this effort, 325510, is 1000 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 donald.graham@nist.gov no later than the response date for this sources sought notice. The following information is requested to be provided as part of the response to this sources sought notice: Name, Address, DUNS number, CAGE code, and point of contact information of your company. Any information on the company�s small business certifications, if applicable. Description of your company�s capabilities as they relate to the services described in this notice. A description of your company�s previous experience providing the services described in this notice. Indication of whether the services described in this notice are currently offered via your company�s GSA Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) contracts, Government-wide Acquisition Contracts (GWACs), or other existing Government-wide contract vehicles; and, if so, the contract number(s) for those vehicles. Any published pricing. Any other relevant information that is not listed above which the Government should consider in 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 8�-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.
- Web Link
-
SAM.gov Permalink
(https://beta.sam.gov/opp/527934285cc9423599f7072fe004a98c/view)
- Record
- SN06158121-F 20211016/211014230128 (samdaily.us)
- Source
-
SAM.gov Link to This Notice
(may not be valid after Archive Date)
| FSG Index | This Issue's Index | Today's SAM Daily Index Page |