SOURCES SOUGHT
66 -- Upgrade to Existing Proprietary Tucker-Davis Electrophysiological Recording Equipment
- Notice Date
- 8/26/2013
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 334519
— Other Measuring and Controlling Device Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Drug Abuse, 6001 Executive Boulevard, Room 4211 - MSC 9559, Bethesda, Maryland, 20892, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20892
- Solicitation Number
- SS3033406
- Point of Contact
- Mario D. Gray, Phone: 3014352238
- E-Mail Address
-
Mario.Gray@nih.hhs.gov
(Mario.Gray@nih.hhs.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- I. Introduction and Purpose: This is a ‘Notice for Sources Sought' for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 10-Market Research, and, is supplemented with additional information. This is not a solicitation and request for proposals, proposal abstracts, and quotations. This is not an invitation for bids. This Government Issuing Agency and Contracting Office, on behalf of the Government Requiring Agency, seeks to obtain information regarding the interest and capability of any qualified business source to successfully meet the Government's requirements described in this notice. II. Business Interest and Capability: The purpose of this ‘Sources Sought Notice' is to allow any interested and capable business to identify itself and its capabilities. Thus, the Government is seeking capability statements from capable businesses including, but not limited to, the following types: 8(a), Veteran-Owned Small Business, Services-Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business, Historically Underutilized Business Zone Small Business, Small Disadvantaged Business, Women-Owned Small Business and Large Business. A business shall use its capability statement to demonstrate that: 1. The business possesses the capabilities to successfully meet the Government's requirements described in this notice; and, 2. The business is competitive in terms of quality, delivery, and market prices. Based on the business responses received, or not received, to this notice, the Government's requirements may be solicited as a 100% Full-and-Open Competition or a type of set-aside. III. Background: The NIH/NIMH has recently used laminar multicontact arrays to show that the perirhinal cortex provides a unique set of functional mechanisms that support memory formation. However, the role of the primate hippocampus in memory is poorly understood. This stands in contrast to a large body of evidence from rodent studies suggesting an involvement of the hippocampus in memory. However, rodent studies typically use tasks that are based on spatial navigation. To test whether the primate hippocampus is important for navigation-based spatial memory in primates, just like it is in rodents, we will record single unit activity from the primate hippocampus while monkeys perform a computer-based virtual-reality spatial memory task. IV. Scope: The aim of this project is to identify the neurophysiological mechanisms that underlie memory function in the primate brain. To that end we will record single neurons using bundles of up to 128 microwires. The recording system needs to be able to simultaneously record broadband activity at a high sampling rate, as well as to perform online spike sorting algorithms. Our present system is not fully capable of this, and, therefore, needs to be upgraded. V. Government Requirements and Need Description: A. The business shall demonstrate detailed knowledge, skill and abilities regarding the Government's requirements and need description as follows: - Upgrade to Existing Proprietary Tucker-Davis Electrophysiological Recording Equipment. - The Government's Existing Proprietary Tucker-Davis Electrophysiological Recording Equipment as follows: - Headstages - Amplifier - IO board for data acquisition - Computer and software solutions B. The business shall be able to provide an Upgrade to the Government's Existing Proprietary Tucker-Davis Electrophysiological Recording Equipment as follows: - Quantity/Description/Item: RZ2-4/Z-Series 4 DSP High Performance Processor/1. Trade-in/Trade-In Credit to Return RZ2-4 (2009)/1. RZ_DSP_S/DSP for RZ Processor for RS4 Streamer/1. RS4-1/Z-Series 1-Port Data Streamer/1. VI. Period of Performance or/and Delivery Information: Delivery Within: 8 - 10 Weeks After Receipt of Order. VII. Response: 1. Any interested and capable business shall submit its capabilities statement tailored to this ‘Sources Sought Notice'. The capabilities statement shall clearly define the interested business' capabilities using an Adobe PDF or Microsoft Office document which limited to 15 pages total. Any interested and capable business shall ensure that its response is accurate, complete, and sufficiently detailed to allow the Government to assess the business' capabilities. The interested business' capabilities statement shall include the interested business' accurate and complete DUNS Number, Legal Business Name, "Doing Business as Name", Physical Address, Point of Contact Information, applicable North American Industry Classification System Code, Type of Business, and Business Size. Responses shall be submitted ONLY to Mario.Gray@nih.hhs.gov by the closing date of this ‘Sources Sought Notice'. 2. Respondents who believe that they are manufacturers or authorized resellers of the items specified in this announcement must provide as part of their response: 1. product, catalog, model, and/or part number(s); 2. product description(s); 3. all relevant information and documentation that the item(s) offered meet(s) the specification requirements: salient physical, functional, and performance characteristics, as specified in the specification requirements and item description section; 4. quantity; 5. estimated price or cost; 6. shipping, handling, and/or installation charges; and, 7. delivery date after receipt of order. VIII. Legal Considerations: The Government is under no obligation to acknowledge receipt of a response or to provide feedback to a response to this ‘Sources Sought Notice". This notice does not obligate the Government to award a contract or order to a respondent to this notice or pay for the information provided by a respondent to this notice. A respondent whom provides classified, confidential, proprietary, or/and sensitive information, does so entirely at its own risk and without the Government being subject to liability. The Government reserves the right to use information provided by any respondent for any purpose the Government deems appropriate and lawful. The Government reserves the right to use information provided by any respondent for any later announcement, notice, solicitation or/and synopsis.
- Web Link
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- Place of Performance
- Address: Bethesda, Maryland, 20892, United States
- Zip Code: 20892
- Zip Code: 20892
- Record
- SN03162047-W 20130828/130826235042-6e9f6399f9f80a9fd0e37f30a9501b51 (fbodaily.com)
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