National Institute of Standards and Technology, Acquisition and Assistance Division, Building 301, Room B117, Gaithersburg, MD

66 -- PORTABLE INFRARED IMAGING SYSTEM SOL 52SBNB6C9166 DUE 070396 POC Keith Kennedy (301) 975-6325/Contracting Officer, Phyllis Bower (301) 975-6336 The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) intends to buy a portable infrared imaging system for non-instrusive measurement of surface temperatures during full-scale fire field experiments. NIST shall use this system to continue its state-of-the-art measurement of fire phenomena. NIST seeks a hand-held, camcorder size unit which NIST can use in the field and operate with battery power. NIST seeks detector cooling through use of a closed cycle micro cooler-detector module which eliminates the need for liquid nitrogen or other cryogenic fluid at remote sites. NIST seeks excellent thermal sensitivity and spacial resolution for object discrimination and measurement through a state-of-the-art infrared focal plane array. NIST seeks a very light unit, preferably less than six pounds, with the standard (16 degree) lens attached, one that is totally self-contained and operates on a camcorder rechargeable battery. NIST requires a full-color LCD eyepiece, on-board 12 bit computer processing, PCMCIA digitial image storage, and a backlit keyboard with full-sized keys. NIST requires internal image processing functions of spot, spot peak hold, delta temperature, isotherms, thermal line, color, and saturation palette measurement. NIST requires storage of up to 256 frozen images on removable flash memory cards. NIST requires recording of real-time images on 8 mm videotape for analysis using companion image analysis software. NIST also requires a Microsoft Windows compatible computer program and hardware combination that provides an extensive range of image analysis tools which can be applied to static images, loaded from disk or images frozen using the supplied video capture card, as well as live images. When these tools are used on live images, NIST requires updating and continuous display of results in real time. NIST requires that the image analysis tools impose a user coordinate system onto an image to make real distance measurements and to label points on the image. Unit of issue-one each. Delivery - FOB destination 120 calendar days after contract award. NIST shall consider a proposal from all responsible sources. (0149)

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