SOURCES SOUGHT
66 -- PLASMA CLEANER FOR TEM SPECIMENS AND HOLDERS
- Notice Date
- 2/4/2010
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 334516
— Analytical Laboratory Instrument 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, Maryland, 20899-1640
- ZIP Code
- 20899-1640
- Solicitation Number
- AMD-10-SS47
- Archive Date
- 3/6/2010
- Point of Contact
- Todd D Hill, Phone: 301-975-8802
- E-Mail Address
-
todd.hill@nist.gov
(todd.hill@nist.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST) seeks information on commercial vendors that are capable of providing a Plasma Cleaner for transmission electron microscopy (TEM) specimen, holders and small components. Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST) is in the process of acquiring a TEM and an aberration corrected, monochromated FEI Titan 80/300 environmental scanning/ transmission electron microscope (ESTEM). One of the microscopes will be installed in summer 2010. We need the capability to clean the samples and sample holder before introducing them in the TEM column. After results of this market research are obtained and analyzed and specifications are developed for a plasma cleaners for TEM specimens and holders that can meet NIST's minimum requirements, NIST may conduct a competitive procurement and subsequently award a Purchase Order. If at least two qualified small businesses are identified during this market research stage, then any competitive procurement that resulted would be conducted as a small business set-aside. The following is a list of desirable attributes of the system: 1.Employs oil-free vacuum pumps. 2.Oxygen/Argon or other, possibly, reactive gasses can be used for plasma source. 3.Accepts side-entry specimen holders for the FEI Titan 80/300 TEM/ESTEM, as well as standard 15mm to 50mm SEM sample stubs, and other bulk materials. 4.Vacuum pumping station to store TEM side-entry specimen holders can be incorporated. NIST is seeking responses from all responsible sources, including large, foreign, and small businesses. Small businesses are defined under the associated NAICS code for this effort, 334516, as those domestic sources having 500 employees or less. Please include your company’s size classification in any response to this notice. Companies that manufacture plasma cleaners for TEM specimens and holders are requested to email a detailed report describing their abilities to todd.hill@nist.gov no later than the response date for this sources sought notice. The report should include achievable specifications and any other information relevant to your product or capabilities. In addition, the following information is requested as part of the response to this sources sought notice: 1. Name of the company that manufactures the system components for which specifications are provided. 2. Name of company(ies) that are authorized to sell the system components, 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. Indication of whether each instrument for which specifications are sent to todd.hill@nist.gov is currently on one or more GSA Federal Supply Schedule contracts and, if so, the GSA FSS contract number(s). 5. Any other relevant information that is not listed above which the Government should consider in developing its minimum specifications and finalizing its market research. Point of Contact Todd Hill, Contracting Officer, Phone (301) 975-8802, Email todd.hill@nist.gov
- Web Link
-
FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/DOC/NIST/AcAsD/AMD-10-SS47/listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Address: NIST, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 20899, United States
- Zip Code: 20899
- Zip Code: 20899
- Record
- SN02057955-W 20100206/100204235413-e1b5fca47d5dea7e6704faf3ad10b736 (fbodaily.com)
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