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B -- FEASIBILITY STUDIES AND APPLICATIONS IN PHOTOMETRY SOL 53SBNB867058 DUE 042298 POC Contracting Officer, Joan M. Smith, (301) 975-6458, Contract Specialist,, Tamara Grinspon, (301) 975-4390 WEB: NIST Contracts Homepage, http://www.nist.gov/admin/od/contract/contract.htm. E-MAIL: NIST Contracts Office, Contract@nist.gov. THIS IS A COMBINED SYNOPSIS/SOLICITATION PREPARED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE FORMAT IN FAR PART 13, AS SUPPLEMENTED WITH ADDITIONAL INFORMATION INCLUDED IN THIS NOTICE. THIS ANNOUNCEMENT CONSTITUTES THE ONLY SOLICITATION; QUOTATIONS ARE BEING REQUESTED, AND A WRITTEN SOLICITATION DOCUMENT WILL NOT BE ISSUED. This solicitation, #53SBNB867058, is a Request for Quotation (RFQ). The solicitation document and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 97-04. This procurement is set aside for small business. The associated Standards Industrial Classification Code (SIC) for this procurement is 8733, and the small business size is $5 million. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has a need for services to provide research and service assistance in photometry, as described below. (1) The contractor shall be responsible for building the external calibration source system for the 2.5m integrating sphere; (2) The Contractor shall perform experiments for realization of the detector-based luminous flux unit using the integrating sphere system; (3) The Contractor shall be responsible for implementation of the instrumentation of the spectral radiant flux measurement system with the integrating sphere; (4) The Contractor shall perform experiments for realization of the total spectral radiant flux scale; (5) The Contractor shall perform measurements needed for the maintenance of the NIST photometric units. (6) The Contractor shall build the hardware and develop the programming to improve the measurement systems for the photometric bench and other photometric equipment; (7) The Contractor shall provide support for maintaining the High Accuracy Cryogenic Radiometer; and (8) Deliverables: The Contractor shall have access to NIST facilities to run the experiments and collect and analyze the results as they are obtained. The Contractor shall provide quarterly reports to the Contracting Officer's Technical Representative (COTR) [Reports shall be provided by the Contractor with two copies of the face sheet (invoice) and with each report referencing: contractor's name, address, order number, date and reporting period, project title, and social security number]; shall co-author publications with NIST staff; and shall present talks at conferences. The Contractor shall wear safety glasses and follow other NIST-approved safety practices while on the NIST site. The Government anticipates award of a purchase order resulting from this combined synopsis/solicitation to the responsible offeror whose quotation, conforming to this synopsis/solicitation, will offer the best value to the Government, price and other factors considered. Evaluation Criteria to be included in this acquisition are as follows: Technical Ability to Meet or Exceed the Government's Requirements, Past Performance, and Price. Technical evaluation criteria, when combined, are significantly more important than price. Offerors shall include with their quotation evidence of the following capabilities (via Curriculum Vitae, List of Publications, etc. of key personnel to perform the required work): (1) Ability to construct, automate, and use the primary-standards-quality photometric instrumentation, as evidenced by experience in a leading photometry research laboratory and publication of original work; (2) Ability to perform experiments required to maintain the national scales for photometric units, as evidenced by experience in doing so with detector-based methods derived from advanced techniques using integrating spheres and photometers traceable to absolute cryogenic radiometry; and (3) Ability to provide support for high accuracy cryogenic radiometry activities, as evidenced by experience with such instrumentation, including cryogenics and specialized electronics and automation. Offerors shall address all requirements in this combined synopsis/solicitation, and shall provide clear evidence of understanding and the ability and willingness to comply with the Government's specifications of need. Failure to address a specification/requirement will be construed by the Government as inability to meet the need or the offeror's taking exception to it. The period of performance for this acquisition is from May 1, 1998 through April 30, 1999 (one man-year of work). The FOB point for deliverables is Destination, Gaithersburg, MD. The following Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) clauses apply to this acquisition: 52.213-4, Terms and Conditions-Simplified Acquisitions (Other Than Commercial Items); 52.219-Notice of Total Small Business Set-Aside; 52.228-5-Insurance on a Government Installation; 52.233-3-Protest After Award; 52.236-9-Protection of Existing Vegetation, Structures, Equipment, Utilities, and Improvements; 52.237-2-Protection of Government Buildings, Equipment, and Vegetation; 52.242-15-Stop Work Order; and Department of Commerce Agency-Level Protest Procedures Level Above the Contracting Officer, which can be downloaded from the NIST Web Page located at http://www.nist.gov/admin/od/contract/protest.htm. The following FAR provisions apply to this acquisition: 52.219-1-Small Business Program Representations, which can be accessed at http://www.arnet.gov/far/current/97-04/html/52_215.html. Offerors shall submit with their quotation package a completed, signed copy of FAR Provision 52.204-3-Taxpayer Identification, which can be accessed at http://www.arnet.gov/far/current/97-04/html/52_000.html, and 52.219-1-Small Business Program Representations. All interested, responsible, small business concerns should submit quotes, by 3:00 PM, Washington, DC time, on April 22, 1998, to the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Acquisition and Assistance Division, Attn: Tamara Grinspon, Building 301, Room B117, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899-0001. Faxed quotes will NOT be accepted. Copies of above-referenced clauses are available upon request by calling (301) 975-4390. See numbered Notes 1 and 26. (0097)

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