Cressington 208HR high resolution sputter coater dry system

NASA/JSC has a requirement for a Cressington 208HR High Resolution Sputter CoaterDry System.NASA/JSC intends to purchase this item from Ted Pella, Inc.The Cressington 208HR High Resolution Sputter Coater System will be utilized to sputtercoat and electronically conduct film/coating on to terrestrial and extraterrestrialsamples for analysis on a nine Ebeam instrument. This oil free unit will replace aging(and failing) equipment and will not contaminate the valuable, extraterrestrial samplesin our laboratory. The unit contains a unique Rotary/Planetary/Tilting sample stage thatenables metal coating of high-relief samples for analyzing in the in-house JEOL 6340 FEGand/or JEOL 5910LV Scanning Electron Microscopes (SEMs). The unit's size and thesmall-sized coating chamber allows for rapid sample chamber pump down time compared tothat of similar instruments on the market. The sputter coater meets our requirements fora high-resolution coating and also compatible (in terms of use, maintenance, spare parts,and unique exchangeable stages) with a similar sputter coater. Ted Pella is consideredthe only responsible source uniquely qualified to fulfill our requirements for theCressington 208HR High Resolution Sputter Coater Dry System.The Government intends to acquire a commercial item using FAR Part 12.Interested organizations may submit their capabilities and qualifications to perform theeffort in writing to vanessa.r.beene@nasa.gov not later than 1:30 p.m. local time onAugust 20, 2009. Such capabilities/qualifications will be evaluated solely for thepurpose of determining whether or not to conduct this procurement on a competitive basis. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed effort on a full and opencompetition basis, based upon responses to this notice, is solely within the discretionof the government.Oral communications are not acceptable in response to this notice.All responsible sources may submit an offer which shall be considered by the agency.An Ombudsman has been appointed. See NASA Specific Note "B".Any referenced notes may be viewed at the following URLs linked below.