MODIFICATION
67 -- High-Speed Digital Camera
- Notice Date
- 8/4/2003
- Notice Type
- Modification
- Contracting Office
- Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, South Atlantic Area Office/Athens, GA, 950 College Station Rd., Athens, GA, 30605
- ZIP Code
- 30605
- Solicitation Number
- RFQ-035-4384-03
- Response Due
- 8/21/2003
- Archive Date
- 9/5/2003
- Point of Contact
- Elaine Wood, Contract Specialist, Phone 706-546-3534, Fax 706-546-3444,
- E-Mail Address
-
woode@saa.ars.usda.gov
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- This notice is modified to read as follows:This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for a commercial item 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; quotations are being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued. The solicitation number RFQ-035-4384-03 is issued as a request for quotations and incorporates provisions and clauses that is in effect through FAC 01-13. This procurement is set aside for small business. The NAICS code applicable to this acquisition is 334119. For a company to qualify as a small business, the small business size standard is 1000 employees. USDA ARS has a requirement for a high speed camera to aid in the study of dispersal and infection processes of the citrus canker pathogen in south Florida. The equipment will be used in conjunction with the wind tunnel facility to compliment ongoing research projects on citrus canker. A high speed camera is required to freeze in motion airborne water droplets (ca. 1 mm - >5 mm diameter) in wind speeds up to 70-100 mph. It must be a system that is straightforward to operate, dismantle, reassemble and transport between sites. The high speed camera will be used to study the infection and dispersal processes of the citrus canker pathogen. Citrus canker is a notifiable disease under strict eradication policy in south east (Dade and Broward counties) and southwest (Hendry and Collier counties) and west central Florida (Manatee and Hillsborough counties). Our understanding of the epidemiology of the disease is limited. A thorough knowledge of the factors that allow infection and dispersal of the pathogen will contribute to developing a fundamental understanding of the disease epidemiology and will pave the way to a better, more informed and rational approach to its management and eventual eradication. To ascertain effects of wind driven and rainsplash and spray on dispersal of and infection by the citrus canker pathogen visualisation of droplet size and speed is required. No other system apart from a high-speed camera can record the size and speed of droplets of water in strong wind. The range of windspeeds from still to those experienced in tropical storm conditions (40-70 mph) need to be tested. Thus the camera must be capable of freezing in motion a droplet traveling at at least 70 mph in a wind tunnel facility. Wind speeds in the presence of different types of rain will be applied to plants and tested for their effect on both infection and dispersal of the pathogen. Visualizing the droplets will allow us to relate droplet characteristics (speed and size) in different wind types to subsequent infection. The combinations of rain and wind that causes maximum infection and dispersal will be ascertained, as will those conditions that cause negligible infection or dispersal. The role of water soaking of leaves and the wind speeds associated with this phenomenon will be investigated as a factor facilitating infection. The digital camera must be sold as a complete working system with peripherals and must have the following specifications/capabilities: It must have a camera lens suitable of recording images through the side of (or port in) a plexiglass wind tunnel at distances of ca. 20-80 cm. The wind tunnel is 100 cm x 100 cm cross section. The camera must come inclusive of a light source kit that can be used as back or front-source lighting (including a stand, suitable bulbs, a reflector etc). It must come equipped with tripods, friction arm and super clamp to allow positioning of the camera head to a hight of ca. 1.5 m. It will come equipped with a suitable trigger kit. It must have a hard case for transport/storage. The camera head should be a compact digital camera head (not more than 25x10x10 cm, LxWxH ). The shutter must be able to freeze splash and spray drops in windspeeds of up to 70-100 mph and have an ability to take sufficient frames per second to allow tracking of individual splash droplets (as small as 1->5 mm diameter) down wind (so appropriate frames per second, shutter speed and resolution must provide this capability). The resolution of the image must be sufficient to allow estimation of droplet speed and size (pixcels numbers at higher shutter speeds must be consistent with image resolution). The camera must be capable of recording and storing sufficient numbers of frames (recording time) to allow for estimation of droplet size at 70-100 mph. It must be possible to control the camera from a PC and have an independent control pad for remote use. The images should be downloadable to a PC or notebook in regular JPEG formats. The camera will come with software that will be capable of both camera control and image replay and downloading. Full playback control is required, image sequence loop, zoom, contrast and brightness adjustment, and image pan. The software should have the capability for estimating individual droplet size and speed. It must also be possible to use the software to save a selected section of a recorded image sequence. The images should be able to be saved as JPEG (additional optional formats are OK). The camera should have a playback mode in both forward and reverse and be able to do this at speeds up to ca. 30 fps. Descriptive literature showing that the offered equipment meets all specifications must accompany the quotation. Delivery time is 60 days ARO. Equipment price should be FOB Ft. Pierce, FL. Quoted price must include delivery costs. The government anticipates award of a contract resulting from this solicitation to the responsible offeror whose offer conforming to the specifications will be most advantageous to the Government. PAYMENT: Any award made under this solicitation is subject to 31 CFR Part 208 which requires all payments made by the government to be made by electronic funds transfer. Vendors may meet this requirement by acceptance of government purchase card or providing a Vendor Express Number. If a company has not previously enrolled in the Vendor Express Program with USDA, they should call the National Finance Center at 1-800-421-0323 for an enrollment package. All offers must include with their quotation a completed copy of FAR 52.212-3 available at www.arnet.gov/far. The following FAR clauses apply: Data Universal Numbering System (DUNS) Number, 52.204-6; Instructions to Offerors-Commercial Items, 52.212-1; Evaluation of Commercial Items awarded to a responsive/responsible offeror at a fair and reasonable price, 52.212-2; Offeror Representations and Certifications-Commercial Items, 52-212-3; Contract Terms and Conditions-Commercial Items, 52.212-4. The following FAR clauses cited in 52.212-5 are applicable to this acquisition: 52.203-6, 52-211-5, 52.222-35, 52.222-36, 52.222-37, 52.225-3 Alt II, 52.225-9, 52.225-10, 52.225-13, 52.225-18, 52.225-21, 52.247-64. All sources wishing to provide a quotation must respond by 1:00 PM EDT, August 21, 2003 . Quotations should be addressed to USDA Agricultural Research Service, 950 College Station Rd, Athens, GA 30605-2720 (or POB 5677, Athens, GA 30604-5677). POC Elaine Wood, Contract Specialist, 706/546-3534 or fax 706/546-3444. Faxed responses are acceptable
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