SOURCES SOUGHT
66 -- HIGH RESOLUTION AND HIGH PERFORMANCE ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY DETECTOR
- Notice Date
- 12/9/2008
- 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-09-SS05
- Archive Date
- 1/7/2009
- Point of Contact
- Todd D Hill, Phone: 301-975-8802
- E-Mail Address
-
todd.hill@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 resolution and high performance electron energy loss spectroscopy detector (EELS system) compatible with a 300 kV scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM). After results of this market research are obtained and analyzed and specifications are developed for an EELS system 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 has a need for an EELS detector that would meet the following requirements: 1. The EELS system must have an operating range from 80 kv to 300 kV, a cooled CCD based readout of at least 1024 pixels by 100 pixels, 16-bit data capability with multiple gain settings, have energy dispersion range from 1 eV per channel to 0.05 eV per channel, have maximum frame rates of at least 200 frames per second, have exposure setting range of 1 msec to 1 hour, integrate with and control the STEM scan generator system, provide for Spectrum Imaging / Mapping data collection and rapid quantitative analysis, accept input from auxilllary detectors such as bright field, dark field, high angle annular dark field detector, and X-ray energy dispersive detectors, and have energy and current drift compensation as well as specimen drift compensation. The EELS system must have automatic spectrometer focusing and AC field compensation, automatic location and alignment of the zero loss peak, automatic energy scale calibration, and automatic exposure optimization. The EELS system must be controlled automatically via a Windows-based software platform capable of saving data in an open format. 2. The EELS system must mount on the bottom flange of a Gatan Model 894 UltraScan CCD camera assembly mounted on an FEI Titan 80-300 STEM and provide X-ray shielding to allow safe operation at 300 kV, as well as be interoperable with the existing STEM and CCD instrumentation (vacuum and cooling systems, etc.). 3. The vendor would be expected to integrate the EELS system with the STEM/CCD while guaranteeing that the STEM/CCD continues to perform to the original manufacturer's (both FEI and Gatan hardware and software) specifications. 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 electron energy loss spectroscopy detectors are requested to email a detailed report describing their abilities to todd.hill@nist.gov no later than the response date for this sources sought notice. The report should include achievable specifications and any other information relevant to your product or capabilities. Also, 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 system components for which specifications are provided. 2. Name of company(ies) that are authorized to sell the system components, 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 systems. 4. Indication of whether each instrument for which specifications are sent to todd.hill@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.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: NIST, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 20899, United States
- Zip Code: 20899
- Zip Code: 20899
- Record
- SN01716288-W 20081211/081209220745-975d7029433af36983c68e091e6aa890 (fbodaily.com)
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