SPECIAL NOTICE
66 -- NOTICE OF INTENT FOR A SQUID READOUT 8-CHANNEL UPGRADE
- Notice Date
- 8/2/2024 11:52:20 AM
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 334516
— Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- DEPT OF COMMERCE NIST GAITHERSBURG MD 20899 USA
- ZIP Code
- 20899
- Solicitation Number
- NB682040-24-01832
- Response Due
- 8/16/2024 8:00:00 AM
- Archive Date
- 08/31/2024
- Point of Contact
- Joni L. Laster, Forest Crumpler
- E-Mail Address
-
joni.laster@nist.gov, forest.crumpler@nist.gov
(joni.laster@nist.gov, forest.crumpler@nist.gov)
- Description
- Notice of Intent to Noncompetitively Acquire one (1) Star Cryoelectronics, LLC �SQUID readout 8-channel upgrade This notice is not a request for a quotation. A solicitation document will not be issued, and quotations will not be requested. This acquisition is being conducted under the authority of FAR 13.106-1(b). The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this acquisition is 334516 with a small business size standard of 1,000 employees. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) �Radioactivity Group (RG) �is responsible for creating and disseminating standards for radioactivity measurements in the US. Ongoing NIST research in this field involves applying cryogenic Transition Edge Sensors (TES) being developed in the NIST Quantum Sensors group to measure radioactive samples with higher accuracy and specificity. The general field is referred to as Decay Energy Spectroscopy (DES). This work requires the Radioactivity Group to acquire an eight-channel Superconducting Quantum Interference Device (SQUID) readout system compatible with a dilution refrigerator cryostat for operating the DES-TES-based detector platform. This readout system should also be drop-in compatible with a previously installed Star Cryoelectronics eight-channel readout system, to provide a total of sixteen readout channels. The DES-TES are cryogenic low-impedance devices and only a SQUID based readout is suitable. Conventional semiconductor readout input noise is too high and will dominate the fundamental noise of the TES. This work is part of an active collaboration with another laboratory that currently conducts similar measurements with NIST produced TES and it is important that the Radioactivity Group utilize a drop-in compatible SQUID readout system to facilitate use of existing TES designs and the exchange of radioactive samples with the other system with minimal engineering. These types of measurements are exemplified by �Measurement of the 240Pu/239Pu Mass Ratio Using a Transition-Edge-Sensor Microcalorimeter for Total Decay Energy Spectroscopy�, Hoover et. al, Anal. Chem. 2015, 87, 7, 3996�4000. NIST conducted market research from April � May 2024 by participating in technical conference, searching GSA.gov, and general internet searches to locate any potential sources that could provide a direct drop in system that would be 100% compatible and interchangeable with the existing equipment. Star Cryoelectronics LLC does not have any resellers and is the only manufacturer that has the proprietary knowledge of how the existing SQUID works with the existing hardware and control software currently in use in the laboratory. Only Star Cryoelectronics can supply a 100% direct drop in system to increase the capability of the existing SQUID components. �The results of that market research revealed that only Star Cryoelectronics LLC; 25 BISBEE CT STE A, SANTA FE, NM 87508-1338; UEI: ES5SR32JX1L8 appears to be capable of meeting NIST�s requirements. However, any sources that believe they are capable of meeting NIST�s minimum requirements are encouraged to respond to this notice by the response date to provide the following information at a minimum: Company Unique Entity Identifier number in https://sam.gov; details about what your company is capable of providing that meets or exceeds NIST�s minimum requirements; whether your company is an authorized reseller of the product or service being cited and evidence of such authorization; and any other information that can help NIST determine whether this requirement may be competitively satisfied. �����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������
- Web Link
-
SAM.gov Permalink
(https://sam.gov/opp/5f6c3ba9b78f48748688f7387e37bf30/view)
- Place of Performance
- Address: Gaithersburg, MD 20899, USA
- Zip Code: 20899
- Country: USA
- Zip Code: 20899
- Record
- SN07154354-F 20240804/240802230116 (samdaily.us)
- Source
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