SOURCES SOUGHT
66 -- NanoFab Parts and Repair Services - Attachment 2 - Attachment 1
- Notice Date
- 6/17/2011
- 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-11-SS16
- Archive Date
- 7/15/2011
- 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
- NanoFab Tool List Description of NanoFab Operations The National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST) seeks information on commercial vendors that are capable of providing a cost effective solution for providing rapid procurement and delivery of parts and repair services to minimize tool downtime in the NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST) NanoFab (see description below). After results of this market research are obtained and analyzed and a Performance Work Statement/Specifications are refined for services/parts 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. NIST has a need for services/parts that would meet the following functional requirements: A. BACKGROUND INFORMATION The NanoFab consists of a large clean-room and several more specialized laboratory modules in an adjacent building. The NanoFab clean-room occupies 1,800 m2 (19,000 square feet) of floor area, which includes 750 m2 (8,000 square feet) of class-100 space. The NanoFab clean-room contains over 65 fabrication and processing tools, providing electron beam-, photo- and nanoimprint-lithography, laser writing and mask generation, an i-Line stepper, field emission scanning electron microscopy (SEM), metal deposition, plasma etching, chemical vapor deposition, atomic layer deposition, and silicon micro/nano-machining. Additional tools, which are located outside the clean-room, include three dual beam focused ion beam systems, an atomic force microscope, and a Titan 300 keV analytical transmission electron microscope (TEM) system with both x-ray and imaging electron energy loss analytical capabilities. B. PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVES OF THE PROCUREMENT In general, the NanoFab would like to identify a cost effective approach to minimize equipment downtime by consolidating as much as of the tool maintenance and repair activities into one service provider. Ideally, the service provider will be able to meet the following requirements: • Parts ordered from within 24 hours of being notified by NIST that the part is needed. • The parts shall be OEM or equivalent, substitutions can only be made with prior approval by NanoFab technical staff Optional services that increase value to NIST and can be leveraged to increase cost effectiveness include: • Providing tool maintenance and repair support for all or a subset of the tool set. • Negotiating, procuring and managing OEM service and/or parts contracts. C. SPECIFIC CONTRACTOR REQUIREMENTS • Specific tasks to be performed by the contractor. • The vendor shall staff a parts "hot-line" to be manned from 8 AM to 6 PM, Monday thru Friday, excluding Federal holidays, that NanoFab staff can reach the service provider to submit a parts request. • The vendor shall provide an email response that the request has been received within 60 minutes of receipt of the parts request. • The vendor shall send an email to the NanoFab technical staff when the parts order has been placed and its expected arrival. • If the part is not immediately available or subsequent discussions are required between the vendor and the part suppliers, the vendor shall keep the NanoFab staff informed daily about any delays in procuring needed parts. • This daily update can be in the form of one list that covers any or all parts requested but not yet delivered. • When the vendor orders the part from the parts' source, the vendor shall notify, via email, NanoFab technical staff by email. • The vendor shall be responsible for processing any part returns or factory warranty issues with the parts supplier. • Parts shall be shipped for next day delivery unless time is not of the essence as determined by NanoFab Staff. • The vendor is permitted to use reconditioned or remanufactured parts to assure timeliness and cost effectiveness. • The vendor is permitted to maintain an onsite presence in lieu of a telephone hotline. • The vendor could stock commonly needed parts to take advantage of volume discounts. D. GOVERNMENT RESPONSIBILITIES • NIST will supply to the vendor, a list of all tools, their model number and serial number • NIST will supply any data we have for known recurring parts orders to help plan. • NIST will supply any contact information we have with the OEM tool vendors E. REPORTING REQUIREMENTS AND DELIVERABLES Progress, management, financial and fiscal report data requirements: • Within 1 week of the end of each fiscal quarter, the vendor shall provide a report with part request response times, part order times and part delivery times and supply a quarterly report to the Nanofab Manager and COTR. F. PROGRAM MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL REQUIREMENTS Internal management and control systems (either specified by the Government or to be developed by the contractor) as part of the Technical Report. • The vendor will meet with Nanofab Manager to review the quarterly reports to assess success of the program and opportunities for improvement. G. ATTACHMENTS I. A description of NanoFab operations II. Tool list 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 could provide the required parts/services 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 and/or 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
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- Place of Performance
- Address: NIST, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 20899, United States
- Zip Code: 20899
- Zip Code: 20899
- Record
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