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67 -- PHOTOGRAPHIC EQUIPMENT SOL 53SBNB860132 DUE 082498 POC Teresa A. Reefe, Contract Specialist, (301) 975-6364, Anita K. Tolliver, Contracting Officer, (301) 975-6308 WEB: NIST Contract Homepage, http://www.nist.gov/admin/od/contract/contract.htm. E-MAIL: NIST Contract Office, Contract@nist.gov. THIS 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 NOTICE. THIS ANNOUNCEMENT CONSTITUTES THE ONLY SOLICITATION; QUOTES ARE BEING REQUESTED AND A WRITTEN SOLICITATION WILL NOT BE ISSUED. SOLICITATION NUMBER 53SBNB860132 IS BEING ISSUED AS A REQUEST FOR QUOTATION (RFQ) USING SIMPLIFIED ACQUISITION PROCEDURES. Incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 97-04. This acquisition is set aside 100% for small business. The SIC code is 3829 and the related small business size standard is 500 employees. The National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST's) Chemical Science and Technology Laboratory has a requirement for a Scientific Grade 1 Charge Coupled Device (CCD) Camera System which will be used to measure the rotational and vibrational Raman scattering spectra of gases in a chemical vapor deposition reactor. The ContractLine Item Number (CLIN), quantity, and unit issue are as follows: CLIN 0001, CCD Camera System (as described in the technical specifications below), one (1) each. The following are the technical specifications of the equipment: A) DETECTOR HEAD: 1) All metal, hard vacuum-sealed detector head with single quartz window; 2) Back-Illuminated, grade 1 chip; 3) UV anti-reflection coating; 4) Thermo-electric cooling; 5) Minimum achievable operating temperatures: a) with 20 degrees C air cooling: less than or equal to -75 degrees C; b) with 10 degrees C water cooling: less than or equal to -90 degrees C; 6) Pixel Format: greater than or equal to 2048 by greater than or equal to 512; 7) Pixel Dimensions: less than or equal to 13.5 by less than or equal to 13.5 microns (square); 8) Typical Pixel Well Depth: greater than or equal to 150,000 electrons; 9) Readout Register Well Depth: greater than or equal to 600,000 electrons; 10) Typical Sensor Readout Noise: less than or equal to 2 electrons at 20 kHz and less than orequal to 6 electrons at 1 MHz; 11) Dynamic Range: greater than or equal to 16 bits at 1 MHz; 12) Dark Current at -70 degrees C: less than or equal to 0.03 electrons per pixel per second; 13) Quantum Efficiency at 300 K: a) greater than or equal to 50 % at 300 nm; b) greater than or equal to 70 % at 350 nm; c) greater than or equal to 80 % at 400 nm; d) greater than or equal to 80 % at 450 nm; e) greater than or equal to 80 % at 500 nm; f) greater than or equal to 80 % at 550 nm; g) greater than or equal to 75 % at 650 nm; h) greater than or equal to 65 % at 750 nm. B) CONTROLLER: 1) Single ISA or PCI buss PC controller card (no external box/supply); 2) dual 16 bit A/D converters with software selectable readout rates up to and including 1 MHz; 3) Multiple TTL I/O connections from DB25 connector. C) SOFTWARE: 1) Spectroscopic and imaging data acquisition compatible with Windows '95; 2) LabView and Windows '95 .DLL drivers; 3) Automatic variable delay for data acquisition; 4) Software selectable internal and external triggering capabilities. The vendor shall deliver all line items FOB Destination to NIST, Building 301, Shipping and Receiving, Gaithersburg, MD 20899. Desired delivery time is 4 weeks from date of award. Required delivery time is 8 weeks from date of award. The provisions at 52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors-Commercial Items, applies to this acquisition. The provision at 52.212-2, Evaluation-Commercial Items applies to this acquisition. The Government will award a purchase order resulting from this solicitation to the responsible offeror whose offer conforming to the solicitation will be most advantageous to the Government, price and other factors considered. The following factors in descending order of importance shall be used to evaluate offers: 1) Technical Capability to Meet the Government's Needs; 2) Past Performance; and Price. Technical and past performance when combined, are significantly more important than price. The clause at 52.212-4, Contract Terms and Conditions-Commercial Items applies to this acquisition. The clause at 52.212-5, Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statutes or Executive Orders-Commercial Items, applies to this acquisition, including subparagraphs (6) 52.222-26, (7) 52.222-35, (8) 52.222-36, (9) 52.222-37, (10) 52.225-3, and Department of Commerce Agency-Level Protest Procedures Level Above the Contracting Officer, which can be downloaded from the NIST Web Page located at http://www.nist.gov/admin/od/contract/protest.htm. All offerors shall submit the following: 1) Three (3) copies of quotation which addresses CLIN 0001; 2) Technical description and/or product literature; 3) Description of commercial warranty; 4) Two (2) copies of the most recently published price list(s); 5) A list of three contracts completed during the past three years for similar equipment with the following information: name of contracting activity, contract number, contract type, total contract value, contracting office and telephone number, and program manager and telephone number; and 6) A completed copy of the provision at 52.212-3, Offeror Representations and Certifications-Commercial Items which may be downloaded from http://www.nist.gov/admin/od/contract/repcert.htm. All offers should be sent to the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Acquisition and Assistance Division, Attn: Teresa A. Reefe, Building 301, Room B117, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-0001. For information, call the POC identified above. Submission must be received by 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time on August 24, 1998. Faxed offers will not be accepted. See numbered Note 1. Posted 08/13/98 (W-SN236621). (0225)

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