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66 -- ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT;CHARGED COUPLED DEVICE CAMERA SOL 27-3K47-96 DUE 081296 POC Keina Burrier, Contract Specialist, 301/504-5888. This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with FAR Subpart 12.6 as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. The announcement constitutes the only solicitation; proposals are being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued. The solicitation number 27-3K47-96, is issued as a Request for Proposal (RFP), and incorporates provisions and clauses that in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 90-37. The standard industrial classification code is 3861, with a small business standard of 500 employees. This acquisition will be procured under a small business set-aside. The proposed contract will include one line item as follows: Charge Coupled Device (CCD) Camera with computer and software for data acquisition and processing. This (CCD) Camera with computer and software will be used by USDA Food Composition Laboratory as a detector for a continuum source atomic absorption spectrometer. The following are the minimum technical requirements: (1) must consist of a 2 dimensional array providing full coverage of an area 1 mm by 1 mm with a minimum pixel size of 12 um and a maximum pixel size of 30 um (2) must have a quantum efficiency of 35% or better at 200 nm (3) must allow uniterrupted integration for 16 ms and read full frame (with no binning) every 20 ms (4) configuration is a full frame transfer device with transfer of detection array to storage array in less than 4 ms (5) must have 12 bit analog-to-digital conversion at a frequency of 5 megahertz (6) must be compatible with, or come with, a PC, or similar computer, with appropriate memory and offer flexible software control (7) must offer flexible binning capabilities, for columns, rows, or sub-sections of the array (8) must have a read noise of less than 25 e- (9) must have capability of thermoelectric cooling to -25 degrees C. Delivery is FOB destination to the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, Beltsville, Maryland within consignee's premises. Delivery is required on or about December 30, 1996 or within 120 days after award. Any interested/qualified source who believes they can provide the required equipment must respond by 4:30 p.m. August 12, 1996. All such responses will be evaluated in order to determine the ability to meet the above stated capabilities. The Government will award a contract resulting from this solicitation to the responsbile offeror whose offer conforming to the soliciation will be most advantageous to the Government, price and other factors considered. The following factors shall be used to evaluate offers; Technical capability, past performances, and price. The offerors shall identify where the offered item meets or does not meet each of the Government functional and performance minimun specification listed herein. Responses shall include literature, brochures, and other such information corresponding to the required items which demonstrates the capabilities of the offeror's equipment. The following FAR clauses and provisions apply: FAR 52.212.1, Instruction to Offerors-Commercial Items; 52.212-2 Evaluation-Commericial item; with the following evaluation criteria; awarded to a technicall acceptable offeror, at fair and reasonable price; 52.212-3, Offeror Representations and Certifications-Commericial Items. The following FAR clauses in paragraph (b) of FAR 52.212-5, Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statues or Executive Orders-Commericial Items, will apply to the resultant contract; 52.203-6, 52.203-10, 52-219-8, 52.222-26, 52.222-35, 52.222-36, 52.222-37, 52.225-3, 52.225-9, 52.225-18 and 52.225.21. All offerors must include a completed copy of FAR 52.212-3 with their response. Because this is a commercial item FAR 12.603(c)(3)(ii) will be used for establishing the solicitation response time rather than the established in Note 22 which, in this instance, is not applicable to this commericial acquisition. (0198)

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