Sources sought AMD SS22-27.docx

Document Type: Sources Sought Notice Solicitation Number: AMD-SS22-27 Response Deadline: July 14, 2022 11:59 PM, EST Title: Onsite coating of NIST 2.5m sphere Contracting Office Address Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Acquisition Management Division (AMD) 100 Bureau Drive Building 301, Room B129, Mail Stop 1640 Gaithersburg MD, 20899-1640

This is a Sources Sought Notice ONLY. Requests for copies of a solicitation will not receive a response.

This Notice is for planning purposes only and is not a Request for Proposal or Request for Quotation or an obligation on the part of the NIST for conducting a follow-on acquisition. NIST does not intend to award a contract on the basis of this Notice, or otherwise pay for the information requested. No entitlement or payment of direct or indirect costs or charges by NIST will arise as a result of submission of responses to this Notice and NIST’s use of such information. NIST recognizes that proprietary components, interfaces and equipment, and clearly mark restricted or proprietary components, interfaces and equipment, and clearly mark restricted or proprietary data and present it as an addendum to the non-restricted/non-proprietary information. In the absence of such identification, NIST will assume to have unlimited rights to all technical data provided in the response.

NO SOLICITATION DOCUMENTS EXIST AT THIS TIME.

NIST is seeking information from sources that are capable of providing one (1) Closed-cycle optical cryostat with integrated temperature-stabilized microscope objective.

Summary of Requirements:

NIST uses a 2.5 m integrating sphere to realize total luminous flux scale and provide related calibration services to customers. The sphere is coated with diffuse reflectance material - barium sulfate, which requires periodical re-coating to ensure calibration quality. Details of the calibration facility are described in the NIST Special Publication 250-95 “Photometric Calibrations,” https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.SP.250-95, and in the paper “Detector-based integrating sphere photometry,” Proceeding of the CIE 24th Session, June 24-30, 1999, Warsaw, Poland, 155-160. The 2.5 m integrating sphere is shown below.

II. SCOPE OF WORK

The scope of work for this order is a service contract for NIST coating the NIST owned 2.5 m integrating sphere. The vendor is to provide all labor, materials, and equipment at the NIST facility in Gaithersburg, MD.

Description of Equipment Being Coated:

Table 1: NIST 2.5 m integrating sphere, made by Labsphere

III. SPECIFIC TASKS:

Contract Line Item Number (CLIN) 0001: The Contractor shall perform the following coating service for the 2.5 integrating sphere in Table 1:

1. On-site strip, clean, and recoat of the 2.5 m integrating sphere in NIST Building 220, Room B311, Gaithersburg, MD.

2. The coating material shall be barium sulfate, which is the inorganic compound with the chemical formula BaSO₄.

3. The coating shall be sprayed on the sphere wall many times so that the coating is sufficiently thick (i.e., negligible light penetrates to sphere’s ABS substrate to ensure uniform reflectance over entire sphere surface.

4. The coated sphere surface shall be smooth, especially at the hot spot region (see the attached paper).

CLIN 0002: The Contractor shall travel to NIST Gaithersburg Campus to complete this coating service.

Travel expenses under this CLIN shall include transportation, lodging, and meals pricing only and shall be billed in accordance with FTR rates for Montgomery County, MD listed at http://www.gsa.gov/portal/category/100120

CONTRACTOR’S MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

The Contractor shall provide engineers or technicians that are fluent in the operation of the covered equipment throughout the period of performance of this requirement.

NIST is seeking responses from all responsible business sources to include small businesses AND U.S. manufactured items.

Small businesses are defined under the size standard of 16.5 million revenue associated with the applicable NAICS code, 238320– Painting and Wall Covering Contractors. Please include company’s size classification and socio-economic status in any response to this notice. Interested parties shall describe the capabilities of their organization as it relates to the requirements described herein.

Businesses able to provide the requested equipment are directed to email a detailed response describing their capabilities to tracy.bisson@nist.gov no later than the response date for this source sought notice. The report shall include any information relevant to the organization’s capabilities to meet the requirements detailed in Summary of Requirements. Also, the following information is requested to be provided as part of the response to this sources sought notice:

1. Name of company/companies that are authorized provide product, their addresses, and a point of contact for the company (name, phone number, fax number and email address).

3. Number of days, after receipt of order that is typical for delivery of product.

4. Indication of whether the product is currently on one or more GSA Federal Supply Schedule contracts or any other government-wide contracts. If so, please provide the applicable contract number(s).

5. Indication of whether the product proposed is a commercial item, currently offered in the market place.

6. Interested vendors shall address their capability of providing Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) parts.

7. Any other relevant information that is not listed above which the Government should consider in developing its minimum performance requirements.

Responses are limited to a total of twelve (12) pages in MS Word or PDF format. NIST invites all interested vendors to submit any questions or comments regarding the Draft Summary of Requirements via email to tracy.bisson@nist.gov within 3 calendar days of the posting of this notice. NIST intends to then post an amendment providing responses to any questions received. Official responses to the Sources Sought Notice shall be submitted by July 14, 2022 at 11:59 pm EST.

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