EVALUATION OF WALK-THRU METAL AND HAND-HELD METAL DETECTORS The Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Prisons (FBOP) would like to evaluate commercially available walk-thru metal and hand-held metal detectors. The purpose of the evaluation will be to test the detectors against the newly proposed National Institute of Justice(NIJ) walk-thru and hand-held metal detector standards that are being developed for NIJ by the the National Institute of Standards and Technology(NIST), Office of the Law Enforcement Standards(OLES). The tests will be conducted by a Cartesian robotic system which consists of three orthogonal axis units with independent motion control. The tests will be conducted in order to determine the effectiveness and applicability of the new standards for law enforcement and corrections. The test results will not be used by the FBOP to determine any eligibility of any make or model of detector for future award, contract, or purchase. All test data will be kept confidential and will only be released back to NIST/OLES who will be responsible for usingthe data in helping to establish the new NIJ standards. However, the FBOP may use the data gained from the test to assist in developing a broad based knowledge of pulsed and/or continuous wave detection and single zone versus multi-zone technologies and their associated performances under these new proposed test standards. All manufacturers and/or vendors interested in providing their detectors to FBOP for evalution, at no cost to the FBOP including the delivery and pick-up the equipments, should contact John Ely, Security Specialist, FBOP at (202) 307-3191 within 30 days of this CBD announcement to arrange for delivery schedules, setup, and pick-up when the tests are complete. All manufactures/vendors shall submit a Return Authorization Number along with pre-paid shipping information so that FBOP can return the equipments on a timely manner after the test is complete. All the testing will be conducted at the FBOP's Central Office at 500 First Street, NW, Washington, D.C. 20534. The FBOP expects to begin testing in the month of October, 1999 through November, 1999 time frame. Testing should take approximately one week for each walk-thru detector and the whole walk-thru testing program should be completed within three months depending on how many detectors are provided by the manufacturers and/or vendors. The hand-held detectors test should be relatively quick and will be conducted simuntaneously with the walk-thru. Posted 08/13/99 (W-SN367431).

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