66 -- PITOT TUBE PRESSURE DIFFERENTIAL MONITORING SYSTEM

Notice Date

September 19, 2001

Contracting Office

Department of the Treasury, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, Acquisition Division, Room 3290, 650 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20226

ZIP Code

20226

Solicitation Number

140500000045

Response Due

September 25, 2001

Point of Contact

Jim Huff PH# 202/927-7721

Description

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) intends to procure the following: Sole Source Basis with MKS Instrument, Inc. of Andover, MA for unique highly sensitive true differential and true absolute capacitance manometers and related instrumentation to be used at the new research center in Beltsville, MD. The instrumentation will be used within the Bureau's fire sciences program, where both differential and absolute pressure measurements in the range 100m Torr to 1 Torr with a 1 10,000 parts resolution are required. The 1 Torr full scale instrumentation must be NEMA1 compatible, 0-10 V and 4mA-20mA output while having its own internal power supply. The number of MKS Instruments, Inc. differential and absolute manometer used by other agencies doing similar research, including NIST provide for direct comparison of data from different research efforts. Award will be made to the offeror meeting all specifications listed above. This procurement will follow simplified acquisition procedures under FAR Part 13.5. Awardee must complete a SF-3381 ACH Vendor/Miscellaneous Payment Enrollment form, for payment via electronic funds transfer. All interested parties must submit a quote within 5 days after date of publication. Award will be based on best value to the government. Quotes must include price and product literature information, which list specifications, bullets per box and boxes per case. Quotes are acceptable by mail and/or facsimile machine at 202/927-7311 Attn: Jim Huff. No telephone request or inquires will be accepted.

Record

Loren Data Corp. 20010921/66SOL008.HTM (W-262 SN50Y0X7)