SOURCES SOUGHT
66 -- High Speed Oscilloscope / Sampling Doublers / High Resolution Realtime Oscilloscope System
- Notice Date
- 2/10/2012
- 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-12-SS16
- Archive Date
- 3/3/2012
- Point of Contact
- Paula Wilkison, Phone: 301-975-8448, Patrick Staines, Phone: (301)975-6335
- E-Mail Address
-
paula.wilkison@nist.gov, patrick.staines@nist.gov
(paula.wilkison@nist.gov, patrick.staines@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 high speed oscilloscope with sampling doublers as well as a high resolution (12-bit) real-time oscilloscope. The CMOS Reliability and Advanced Devices Group of the Semiconductor and Dimensional Metrology Division of the Physical Measurements Laboratory has a requirement for a high speed oscilloscope with sampling doublers as well as a high resolution (12-bit) real-time oscilloscope to support the high-definition electron spin resonance research efforts in the CMOS Device and Reliability Project. The high speed oscilloscope with two sampling doublers (to achieve a sampling rate up to 80GS/s ) will serve as a key tool to facilitate the design of a balanced microwave bridge circuit which serves as the "heart" of the high-definition electron spin resonance spectrometer currently being developed. The high resolution (12-bit) oscilloscope is necessary to read-out the microwave bridge output for accurate data acquisition. Our high-definition electron spin resonance research requires a high-speed (analog bandwidth of at least 20 GHz) real-time serial data analyzer oscilloscope to aid the design and implementation of a balanced microwave bridge circuit. Our proposed measurements require minimum of four channels of hardware acquisition capable of 20 GHz analog bandwidth at 40GS/s sampling rate. Our measurement also has a particularly necessary specification of two sampling doublers to combine two channels to achieve an 80GS/s effective sampling rate. The high frequency (20GHz) and high sampling rate (80 GS/S) are required to measure the high-frequency signal (> 9GHz) utilized in our balance bridge microwave circuit that serves as the "heart" of our high-definition electron spin resonance bridge. Our high-definition electron spin resonance research also requires a high-resolution (true 12-bit analog to digital conversion) oscilloscope with a bandwidth of at least 400 MHz to readout the balanced microwave bridge circuit output. Our ability to balance the bridge centers on the accuracy with which we can read-out the microwave bridge output. Consequently our design requires at least 12-bits of vertical resolution and 72 dB of dynamic range on 4 different channels to increase our sensitivity to the required level necessary for successful electron spin resonance detection. The required oscilloscope must be built on a high speed architecture that allows for extremely fast computations on the acquired waveforms. Our experiment requires this capability in order to average sets of sequenced waveforms to generate a single averaged waveform in near real time. After results of this market research are obtained and analyzed and specifications are developed for a High-Speed Oscilloscope/Sampling Doublers/High Resolution Realtime Oscilloscope 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 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 such High-Speed Oscilloscope/Sampling Doublers/High Resolution Realtime Oscilloscopes are requested to email a detailed report describing their capabilities to paula.wilkison@nist.gov no later than the response date for this sources sought notice. 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 instruments for which specifications are provided. 2. Name of company(ies) that are authorized to sell the instruments, 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 instruments. 4. Indication of whether each instrument for which specifications are sent to paula.wilkison@nist.gov are 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 Paula Wilkison, Contract Specialist, Phone (301) 975-8448, Email paula.wilkison@nist.gov
- Web Link
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FBO.gov Permalink
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- Place of Performance
- Address: 100 Bureau Drive, MS 1640, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 20899, United States
- Zip Code: 20899
- Zip Code: 20899
- Record
- SN02673085-W 20120212/120210233600-a23a37427c2e2129dfdc3a7db2598679 (fbodaily.com)
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