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66 -- SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE SOL 1-074-DMB.5030 DUE 072298 POC Artistine Lethcoe-Reid, Purchasing Agent, Phone (757)-864-2432, Fax (757) 864-9774, Email A.LETHCOE-REID@larc.nasa.gov -- James W. Cresawn, Contracting Officer, Phone (757)-864-2500, Fax (757) 864-7898, Email J.W.CRESAWN@larc.nasa.gov WEB: Click here for the latest information about this notice, http://nais.nasa.gov/EPS/LaRC/date.html#1-074-DMB.5030. E-MAIL: Artistine Lethcoe-Reid, A.LETHCOE-REID@larc.nasa.gov. This notice is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in FAR Subpart 12.6, as supplemented with additional information included in this otice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; quotes are being requested and a written solicitation will not be used. The Scanning Electron Microscope will be utilized to evaluate experimental composite materials fabricated under a broad range of processing conditions. The following are specifications for the purpose of acquiring the Scanning Electron Microscope Scanning Electron Microscope shall be in accordance with the following Specifications: 1. Shall have accelerating voltage range of 0.5 kV to 30 kV, with 100 Volt increments from 0.5 kV to 3kV and 1kV increments from 3kV to 30kV. The filament will be pre-centered at the factory for easy replacement with a probe current range of 10-12 to 10-6 A. 2. Electron gun shall have auto controls that include bias voltage, filament heating, gun alignment, specimen focus and stigmator functions. The gun shall contain a 2 stage zoom condenser lens, objective lens of conical type, and an objective lens aperture with 3 stages. The electron gun will have built in functions of dynamic focus, wobbler and stigmator memory. 3. The SEM shall have resolution of 3.5nm using 30kV, a magnification range of 18x to 300,000x and have an image mode using secondary electron detector for backscattered electron image and secondary electron image. 4. Specimen stage shall be an eucentric goniometer stage with five functions of movement : X, 80 mm range ; Y, 40mm range; Z, 43mm range; tilt, -100 to +900 range; and rotation, 3600 continuous. The stage shall have specimen holder options of 100mm dia. x 10mm height and 32mm dia. x 10 mm height. The stage shall be adaptable to hold four 10mm specimens or hold a 6 dia. specimen of which 5 inches can be observed. 5. Evacuation system shall be completely automated with a rotary and diffusion vacuum pumps, which have minimum evacuation ratesof 100 liter/min and 420 liter/sec respectfully, and an ultimate vacuum minimum to the order of 10-4 Pa. 6. Shall have safety devices to protect against electricity leakage, loss of vacuum, loss of water supply, and power failure. 7. Operating system shall have an operating system of windows 95 or higher, a minimum of 32 MB of RAM, 2 Gbyte hard drive, removable magneto optical drive, a 1.44 Mbyte floppy drive, and shall have mouse control of all SEM functions. The system shall support recipes for a minimum of 20 users having a minimum of 100 files for each user, and automatic functions of gun control, focus, stigmator, and contrast and brightness controls. 8. Monitor shall have a minimum of 5 scanning speeds ranging from 0.064 sec/frame to 133.3 sec/frame with a digital image of 640 x 480 or 1280 x 960 pixels and 2 photo speeds ranging from 66.67 sec/frame to 133.3 sec/frame, each having 1280 x 960 pixels. Monitor shall have a multi image display of 2 or 4 images with a zoom of 2x and 4x and have the capability to write text on the image with a minimum of 36 characters on 24 lines using alphabetor numeric characters with a background of the image and having photo data recording of accelerating voltage, magnification, micron bar, photo number and comments with a minimum of 10 characters. All of which can be turned off or on. The storage shall be to hard disk in PC BMP or TIFF format or to the removable magneto optical drive or to the 1.44 Mbytes floppy drive. Installation Requirements: 1. Company shall supply personal to determine if location designated for SEM satisfies all vibration and stray magnetic field requirements. 2. Power and water requirements : Shall operate from a single phase AS 100 volt, 50Hz/60Hz, 2.5 kVA with a 100 ohm ground. Shall operate from a water supply of 2 liter/minutes with a water pressure of 0.05 to 0.2 Mpa. Shall operate in a temperature range of 150C to 250C with humidity of 60% or less. The outside dimensions shall be no greater than 2500mm x 2500mm. 3. Company shall supply personal for training of designated personal in branch after successful completion of installation and proof of performance in designated location of set-up. Also company shall provided 2 sets of operators manuals for SEM. 4. Company shall set-up and demonstrate full operation of SEM before 9-30-98. Company shall supply closed loop water re-circulation unit with a water to water heat exchanger for SEM cooling water supply. The provisions and clauses in the RFQ are those in effect through FAC 97-04. This procurement is a total small business set-aside. See Note 1. The SIC code and the small business size standard for this procurement are 3826 and 500 employees respectively. The quoter shall state in their quotation their size status for this procurement. All qualified responsible business sources may submit a quotation which shall be considered by the agency. Delivery shall be FOB Destination. The DPAS rating for this procurement is DO-C9. Quotations for the items(s) described above may be mailed or faxed to the identified point of contact [or bid distribution office, by the date/time specified and include, solicitation number, FOB destination to this Center, proposed delivery schedule, discount/payment terms, warranty duration (if applicable), taxpayer identification number (TIN), identification of any special commercial terms, and be signed by an authorized company representative. Quoters are encouraged to use the Standard Form 1449, Solicitation/Contract/Order for Commercial Items form found at URL: http://procure.arc.nasa.gov/Acq/Standard_Forms/Index.html to submit a quotation. Quoters shall provide the information required by FAR 52.212-1. Please note that payments are to be made by electronic funds transfer, accordingly, you must provide the mandatory information for electronic funds transfer with your representations and certifications. Failure to provide this information may delay or prevent the receipt of payments through the Automated Clearinghouse Payment System. If the end product(s) quoted is other than domestic end product(s) as defined in the clause entitled "Buy American Act -- Supplies," the quoter shall so state and shall list the country of origin. The Representations and Certifications required by FAR 52.2l2-3 may be obtained via the internet at URL: http://ec.msfc.nasa.gov/msfc/pub/reps_certs/sats/ FAR 52.212-4 is applicable. Addenda to FAR 52.212-4 are as follows: 52.214-34, 52.214-35, 52.219-6, 1852.215-84, 1852.225-73. FAR 52.212-5 is applicable and the following identified clauses are incorporated by reference. 52.222-3, 52.233-3, 52.222-26, 52.222-36, 52.225-3, 52.225-18. Quotations are due by July 21, 1998. Selection and award will be made (on an aggregate basis) to the lowest priced, technically acceptable quoter. Technical acceptability will be determined by information submitted by the quoter providing a description in sufficient detail to show that the product quoted meets the Government's requirement. Quoters must provide copies of the provision at 52.212-3, Offeror Representation and Certifications -- Commercial Items with their quote. See above for where to obtain copies of the form via the Internet. An ombudsman has been appointed -- See Internet Note "B". It is the quoter's responsibility to monitor this site for the release of amendments (if any). Potential quoters will be responsible for downloading their own copy of this combination synopsis/solicitation and amendments (if any). Any referenced notes can be viewed at the following URL: http://genesis.gsfc.nasa.gov/nnotes.htm. Posted 07/07/98. (0188)

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