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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 G... 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 small businesses that are capable of providing one (1) broadly tunable narrow-band source. Summary of Requirements: The requested equipment shall include but is not limited to the minimum specifications below. The potential offeror shall provide information demonstrating that the small business entity is able to provide a broadly tunable narrow-band source that meets the following minimum specifications: 1. Spectral range shall be from 400 nm to 2300 nm. 2. Spectral bandwidth of monochromatic source (full-width, half-maximum power) shall be 3 nm or less from 400 nm to 1000 nm and 5 nm or less from 1000 nm to 2300 nm. 3. Spectral purity: out-of-band rejection < -60 db at ± 40 nm and < -60 db at ± 80 nm. If order sorting filters are used, introduction and removal from the system must be automated. 4. Output from the monochromator shall be unpolarized 5. Minimum power exiting the monochrometer: - 0.75 mW or greater from 400 nm to 420 nm - 1.5 mW or greater from 420 nm to 650 nm - 1.5 mW or greater from 650 to 1000 nm - 3.5 mW or greater from 1000 nm to 1750 nm - 3 mW or greater from 1750 nm to 2200 nm - 1 mW or greater from 2200 nm to 2300 nm - Extended range to 2400 nm, best effort. - Extended range to 380 nm, best effort. 6. Output power stability shall be 1 % or less over a measurement time of 5 minutes. Consideration will be given for feed-back stabilization of the output. 7. Output shall be either free-space or optical fiber; user-selectable. - Optical fiber: low OH, silica multimode fiber, core diameter 200 um or less 8. If the source is pulsed, a minimum repetition rate shall be 20 MHz. 9. Control software shall be provided along with a command set to enable independent software development and integration with larger NIST programs. 10. Pump source into the monochromator shall be fiber-coupled or have adequate baffling to meet standard safety requirements; 11. System shall come with a shipping container - with shock mitigation and the cover sealed with an o-ring or similar for moisture control. NIST is seeking responses from all responsible small business sources Small businesses are defined under the size standard of 1000 employees associated with the applicable NAICS code, 334516 - Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing. 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. Small 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 should 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 parties shall specify if they are the Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) of the proposed equipment. If the interested party is not the OEM, the OEM's information shall be provided. 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 small businesses 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 March 1, 2019 at 11:59 pm EST. Points of Contact: Tracy Bisson, Contract Specialist, Phone (301) 975-8448, Email: tracy.bisson@nist.gov Robert Cowins, Contracting Officer, Phone (301) 975-8335, Email: robert.cowins@nist.gov