SOURCES SOUGHT
66 -- various stainless steel capacity Liquid Nitrogen Dewar?s
- Notice Date
- 7/14/2006
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 332439
— Other Metal Container Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Acquisition Management Division, 100 Bureau Drive, Building 301, Room B129, Mail Stop 1640, Gaithersburg, MD, 20899-1640
- ZIP Code
- 20899-1640
- Solicitation Number
- Reference-Number-06-192-SS03
- Response Due
- 8/4/2006
- Archive Date
- 8/19/2006
- Description
- NIST seeks information from commercial vendors that may provide rental and maintenance of various stainless steel dewars. NIST may procure such dewars after results of this market research are obtained and analyzed and specifications are developed for dewars that can meet NIST's minimum requirements. Vendors are requested to provide rental information of various stainless steel capacity Liquid Nitrogen Dewar?s with a neck opening of one inch (1?) as follows; Type Quantity *-25 15 Each *-50 with welded casters 45 Each *-100 with welded casters 25 Each Repairs and replacement will be in accordance with the terms of the contract/rental agreement. Repair services shall include but are not limited to the following: * Completely strip valve * Dismantle Dewar * Re-assembly * Test for pressure * Replace casters Damaged dewar?s shall be shipped to the Contractor's facility at NIST's expense. Upon completion of repairs, or exchange the Contractor will returned the dewar?s to NIST at the Contractor's expense. All dewar?s shall be returned with Dust Cap. Dewar?s shall be exchanged and stock rotated every X (vendor to recommend) years. Please provide turn-around time for Dewars that need repairs or exchange. NIST also seeks to trade-in older, painted Dewars as part of this procurement. Please comment as to whether or not this may be facilitated NIST is seeking responses from both large and small businesses. Small businesses are defined under the associated NAICS code for this effort, 332439, as those having 500 employees or less. Please include your size classification in any response to this notice. Companies that rent commercially available stainless steel capacity Liquid Nitrogen Dewars are requested to email detailed specifications for such commercially available products to todd.hill@nist.gov no later than the response date for this sources sought notice. Specifications shall include detailed functional and performance capabilities for the dewars. Also, the following information is requested to be provided as part of the response to this sources sought notice: 1. Name of the company that manufactures the dewars for which specifications are provided. 2. Name of company(ies) that are authorized to rent the dewars, their addresses, and a point of contact for the company (name, phone number, fax number and email address). 3. Indication of number of days, after receipt of order that is typical for delivery of such systems. 4. Any other relevant information that is not listed above which the Government should consider in developing its minimum specifications.
- Record
- SN01089179-W 20060716/060714220518 (fbodaily.com)
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