SOLICITATION NOTICE
66 -- Ambient Air Mercury Trace Level Monitoring System
- Notice Date
- 1/5/2007
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 334516
— Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Acquisition and Grants Office, SSMC4 - Room 7601/OFA61 1305 East West Highway, 7th Floor, Silver Spring, MD, 20910, UNITED STATES
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- Reference-Number-NRMAC000-7-03297
- Response Due
- 1/22/2007
- Archive Date
- 2/6/2007
- Description
- The National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration's Air Resources Laboratory requires a fully automated gas and particle detection system, capable of measuring trace levels of elemental mercury (Hg?), reactive gaseous mercury (RGM) and fine particulate mercury (FPM). ARL envisions the detection system as three distinct components for Hg?, RGM and FPM. The units must be fully compatible with one another, and be capable of routine operation, unattended for periods of approximately one week. The Hg? detector must provide continuous data, time averaged over user-selectable intervals of 30 minutes to 6 hours. The units should be capable of self-cleaning and self-calibration and any adsorption or trapping medium necessary to collect the mercury compounds should be self-regenerating for a period of at least one week, before replacement of the collection medium is required. Detector module should have RS-232 signal and status outputs, as well as status and control input capability to allow remote instrument operation and calibration. Products must be durable and function extremely well in a variety of often-harsh operating environments. The analyzer shall be a compact, self-contained, rack mountable unit, complete with internal pump, user-serviceable pre-concentration traps, heaters, mass-flow meter and controllers, a cold vapor atomic fluorescence detector, and calibration source. It must be a portable unit that may be used indoors or in the field to monitor background vapor-phase mercury levels to a detection level in the *sub-ng/m3* regime at a cycle time of five minutes or less. The analyzer must be capable of operation without an external data-logger or computer, and should possess analog, digital and RS-232 outputs to allow it to be integrated with a serial data-logger, PC-based system or any air quality telemetry system. The analyzer must be equipped with dual, gold-column amalgamation cartridges which allow for true, continuous sampling of an air stream, with no gaps in the data collected. While one cartridge is sampling ambient air the other is in the process of being analyzed. The mercury vapor cartridges should be made of pure gold, and should be able to withstand many thousands of sampling and desorption cycles without degradation in performance. The duty cycle must be sufficiently short as to allow for near-real-time data collection, with a minimum rate of not more than 2.5 minutes per cycle. The analyzer must be equipped with an internal mercury calibration source that allows the instrument to re-calibrate itself automatically; thus allowing unattended operation for extended periods of time. The analyzer must be equipped with a bypass valve that prevents contaminated air from coming in contact with the detector, thus making cleaning operations infrequent. The detector in the analyzer must have an inert gas purge feature to improve stability, thus necessitating only infrequent adjustments to the GAIN and SENSITIVITY controls. The analyzer must utilize an electronic mass-flow meter or controller to measure ambient air sample flow rate. If using a mass flow meter, the analyzer must utilize a microprocessor controlled feedback loop between the mass flow meter and pump to ensure accurate sample flow rates and sample volume measurements. The analyzer must use an electronic mass-flow controller to regulate carrier gas flow during analysis, and should automatically shut off gas flow in the event of a power failure. This allows optimal usage of the UHP Argon carrier gas. The following items to be acquired are identified with Tekran-manufactured model numbers. Notwithstanding the identification of these model numbers, any product that has the capability of meeting form, fit and function of the identified products will be evaluated. Model 2537A Mercury Vapor Analyzer, with the following options: Internal Permeation Source (#001), Aluminum Transit Case (#020), Rack Mount Ears (#010). Model 1130 Mercury Speciation Unit with the following options: Replacement Denuders (#010) quantity six, Model 1102 Air Dryer, Shipping case for pump module (#020), shipping case for Denuder (#030). Model 1135 Particulate Mercury Unit with the following options: Spare quartz filter assembly (#010) quantity four, Aluminum shipping case (#020), DataCom (#100), 50' heated line with therrmostatic controller. All quantities are one, unless otherwise indicated. Incorporated clauses are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular Number 2005-15. The provisions and clauses may be downloaded at http://www.arnet.gov/far. The following provisions and clauses shall apply to this solicitation: FAR 52.212-l, Instructions to Offerors - Commercial, applies to this acquisition and there is no addenda to this provision; FAR 52.212-2, Evaluation - Commercial Items. The Government may award a purchase order resulting from this solicitation to the responsible offeror conforming to the solicitation which will be most advantageous to the Government, price and other factors considered. The following factors shall be used to evaluate offers: (i) approach, (ii) past performance, (iii) price; FAR 52-212-3, Offeror Representations and Certifications - Commercial Items, applies to this acquisition and there is no addenda to this provision; FAR 52.212-4, Contract Terms and Conditions - Commercial Items, applies to this acquisition and there is no addenda to this provision; FAR 52.212-5, Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statutes or Executive Orders - Commercial Items, applies to this acquisition. All interested contractors must be actively registered in the Central Contractor Registration (CCR) at the CCR website (www.ccr.gov). These items will be acquired using simplified acquisition procedures, FAR Parts 12 and 13 utilizing the Test Program for Certain Commercial Items, as supplemented with additional information in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; quotes are being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued. All responsible sources may respond to this Notice with a quotation addressed to Robin Prather, NOAA Acquisition Division, 1305 East West Highway, Room 7146, Silver Spring MD 20910, to be received no later than 1:00 p.m., January 22, 2007. Responses emailed to Robin.Prather@noaa.gov. Responses must be no more than five (5) pages. The Government reserves the right to make a single award, multiple awards, or no award as a result of this RFQ. It is the responsibility of the contractor to confirm NOAA's receipt of quote.
- Place of Performance
- Address: 1315 East-West Highway, Silver Spring MD
- Zip Code: 20910
- Country: UNITED STATES
- Zip Code: 20910
- Record
- SN01205797-W 20070107/070105220423 (fbodaily.com)
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