SOURCES SOUGHT
66 -- Upright Microscope for Fluorescence Analysis and Polarized Light Microscopy
- Notice Date
- 1/3/2017
- 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 B130, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 20899-1410, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20899-1410
- Solicitation Number
- NIST-MML-17-SS6
- Archive Date
- 2/1/2017
- Point of Contact
- Grace H. Garrity, Phone: 3019752345
- E-Mail Address
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grace.garrity@nist.gov
(grace.garrity@nist.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST) located 100 Bureau Drive, Gaithersburg, MD, seeks information from vendors that are capable of providing an upright microscope for fluorescence analysis and polarized light microscopy. The purpose of this notice is to identify organizations capable of providing this instrument. This announcement is not a Request for Proposals or Quotes (RFP/RFQ) and does not commit the Government to award a contract now or in the future. The information contained in this notice is DRAFT only and as such, is subject to change prior to issuance of a solicitation. No solicitation is available at this time. After results of this market research are obtained and analyzed, NIST may conduct a competitive or non-competitive procurement and subsequently award a contract. If at least two qualified small business sources are identified during this market research stage, this acquisition may be solicited as a small business set aside. NIST is seeking responses from all responsible sources, including large and small businesses (SB, SDB, WOSB, HUB Zone, SDVOSB and VOSB). This requirement is assigned a NAICS code of 334516 (Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing) and has a small business size standard of 1,000 employees. Interested business organizations that believe they may be capable of meeting NIST's requirements detailed below should respond to this notice with a narrative demonstrating their ability to meet the requirements. Contractors may provide supplemental information at their discretion. Responses should be submitted to Grace.Garrity@nist.gov no later than 9:00 AM Eastern Time on 1/17/2017. NIST may require the following: The Contractor shall deliver one microscope that meets or exceeds the following minimum technical requirements. The Contractor shall deliver, install and provide training as described below. System Requirements: • The microscope must be able to achieve Kohler illumination, regular transmitted light, EPI-brightfield illumination, EPI-darkfield illumination, EPI-fluorescence illumination, and EPI-polarization, as well as differential interference contrast. The instrument is intended to be use in parallel with an MMSD owned Olympus VS-120 microscope in order to increase our research throughput. Therefore, the instrument must be completely compatible with the light sources, objectives, analyzers, and camera systems for the VS-120 microscope so that we can reconfigure the platform for different research projects. Additionally, MMSD developed custom software is currently compatible with Olympus microscope platform and the use of an incompatible microscope platform would cause significant delays in meeting important mission deadlines because of the need to rewrite the software. • The microscope shall include a motorized stage (in X, Y and Z directions) to do multiple image acquisition for large area (a.k.a. image stitching or tiling). Additionally, it shall include both a high-resolution stepper motor controller and a manual operating device to control the stage position in the X, Y, and Z axes. • The motorized stage shall be 130 mm by 85 mm in size and be able to accommodate a minimum of four 1"x3" microscope slides simultaneously with a slide holder, as well as glass and metal plate inserts. • Image acquisition software is required to perform image stitching. The acquisition software shall also function as an image analysis software for object detection and size distribution measurement, and shall be capable of doing shading correction. Additionally, it shall be compatible with a camera with the specification detailed below. • The microscope shall include a camera capable of producing both color and monochrome images for in situ brightfield and fluorescence analysis. Additionally, it shall include a camera adapter that is compatible with the camera. • The microscope shall include a circular, centerable, rotating stage (360 degrees with 45 degrees click stop) to do polarized light microscopy, and shall include a mechanical stage attachment with knurled X and Y controls. • The microscope shall have the ability to accommodate the rotating stage and the motorized stage interchangeably. • All manual and motorized parts included in the microscope shall be capable of being used interchangeably and must be compatible with each other. • The microscope shall include a control box for interfacing microscope hardware with a PC, as well as control shutter operation of the camera. • The microscope shall include a Z-axis motor focus drive to be positioned on the fine focus knob of the microscope. • The microscope shall include a Bertrand type lens for conoscopic and orthoscopic observations. • The microscope shall have a tilting trinocular in order to adjust for the additional height that the Bertrand lens will add to the system. (50:50, 100:0, and 0:100% positions) • The microscope shall have two eyepieces, one that is fixed and another that has a properly aligned crosshair. • The microscope shall have a four position coded illuminator with possible coding functions for differential interference contrast, polarization, brightfield, darkfield, and fluorescence. Additionally, compatible mirror cubes for reflected light brightfield and darkfield illuminations are required. • The microscope shall include polarizers and analyzers for both reflected and transmitted light illuminations, where a rotating analyzer must be used for polarized light microscopy. • The microscope shall include an Abbe type swing-out condenser (strain free; numerical aperture = 0.90 in air; adjustable aperture iris diaphragm; suitable for 4x-100x magnifications) for polarized light microscopy. Additionally, a condenser (numerical aperture = 0.65; aperture diaphragm; working distance = 12 mm) for long working distance is required for the use of glass plates in the 130 mm by 85 mm motorized stage. • The microscope shall include objective lenses that are appropriate for regular transmitted light, differential interference contrast, and EPI- brightfield, darkfield, fluorescence, and polarization. The objective lenses should be non-coverslip lenses and cover a wide range of magnifications: 1.5x, 2.5x, 5x, 10x, 20x, 50x, and 100x, where the 1.5x and 2.5x objective lenses do not need to be suited for EPI-darkfield. • The microscope shall include a manual and centerable nosepiece that is compatible with the size of the objective lenses specified above, and therefore with brightfield illumination, darkfield illumination, differential interference contrast, and combined brightfield and darkfield illumination methods. Additionally, it shall include any adapters needed to mount brightfield objectives. • The microscope shall have a Nomarski type differential interference contrast prism slider, suitable for reflected light, and should fit in the microscope's nosepiece slot. • The microscope shall include a compensator adapter with a 6mm by 20mm slot to fit standard compensators. • The microscope shall include the following compensators: a first order (full wave) red gypsum plate and a quarter wavelength mica plate, and they must be fit in the slot of the compensator adapter. • The microscope shall have an LED slider for directional darkfield and combined brightfield and darkfield illumination methods. • The microscope shall have a hood type dust cover. • The microscope shall include a Windows 7 Pro OS 64-BIT desktop computer with 32GB DDR, Intel Xeon processor E5 family, 512 GB SDD, 2TB of HDDs, and graphic card with a 2GB of DDR3 GPU memory and DVI-D DL + DP 1.2 display connectors. • The microscope shall include a calibration slide to properly align the motorized stage and use as a standard for size measurements. • The microscope shall have a halogen lamp housing for Kohler illumination. • The microscope shall use a white LED light source for both reflected and transmitted light. • The microscope shall include an apochromatic lamp housing collector lens system to compensate for chromatic aberrations from visible light to near-infrared light. • The motorized components and light housing of the microscope shall plug into a standard US 120V outlet. • All cables and connections needed to operate all of the functions and capabilities of the microscope shall be included. Installation: The Contractor shall install the instrument in Building 217, Room C111, at NIST Gaithersburg, MD. Installation shall include, at a minimum, uncrating/unpacking of all equipment, set-up and hook-up of all equipment, start-up, demonstration of specifications, and removal of all trash. Instrument will operate to manufacturer's specifications upon installation. Installation will take place during normal business hours, between 8:30 am and 5:00 pm Eastern Time, Monday through Friday except Federal Holidays, and will be coordinated with the NIST Technical Point of Contact (TPOC). Installation is to occur within 120 days of award. Warranty: The Contractor shall provide, at a minimum, a one-year warranty for the equipment. The warranty shall cover all parts, labor and travel. The warranty shall commence upon successful completion of delivery, installation, training and demonstration of all required specifications. Training: Include training at NIST for up to 2 NIST personnel covering normal operation, troubleshooting, and routine maintenance. Training will be provided during normal business hours, between 8:30am and 5:00pm Eastern Time, Monday through Friday, except Federal Holidays, and will be coordinated with the NIST Technical Point of Contact (TPOC) to ensure maximum availability of NIST personnel. Training is to occur within 10 days of installation. The training may be completed on-site at NIST immediately after installation and demonstration of specifications.
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