SOLICITATION NOTICE
66 -- MATERIALS ANALYSIS INSTRUMENT
- Notice Date
- 7/21/2006
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 423490
— Other Professional Equipment and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers
- Contracting Office
- NASA/Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Houston Texas, 77058-3696, Mail Code: BH
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- NNJ06165378Q
- Response Due
- 7/28/2006
- Archive Date
- 7/21/2007
- Description
- NASA/JSC has a requirement for a sophisticated materials analyzer that can characterize an unknown material in great detail. NASA/JSC intends to purchase the items from Quantum Analytics. Quantum Analytics provides an instrument called the Frontier Pyrolyzer System. This instrument has unique technology and capabilities that no other company provides, or could provide. The technology provides the user with a choice of temperature gradients for the initial introduction of the sample into the pyrolysis chamber. The temperature gradient will be below the decomposition temperature of the sample and the evolved gas can be characterized and identified by the accompanying gas chromatograph/mass spectrometry system. After the gas analysis is completed, the sample is raised to the top of the pyrolyzer and cooled to room temperature. The pyrolysis chamber is then heated to temperatures above the initial gas evolution temperature and the sample is allowed to fall into the heated pyrolysis chamber. This process allows for the analysis of non-volatile components of the same sample. The Government intends to acquire a commercial item using FAR Part 12. Interested organizations may submit their capabilities and qualifications to perform the effort in writing to the identified point of contact not later than 3:30 p.m. local time on July 28th, 2006. Such capabilities/qualifications will be evaluated solely for the purpose of determining whether or not to conduct this procurement on a competitive basis. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed effort on a full and open competition basis, based upon responses to this notice, is solely within the discretion of the government. Oral communications are not acceptable in response to this notice. All responsible sources may submit an offer which shall be considered by the agency. An Ombudsman has been appointed. See NASA Specific Note "B". Any referenced notes may be viewed at the following URLs linked below.
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