Inactive Total Small Business Set-Aside (FAR 19.5)

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 inte... 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 The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is actively seeking information on Small Business commercial manufacturers or distributers that are capable of providing a specific set of high-vacuum turbomolecular pumps, cryogenic pumps and dry roughing pumps. The pumps will be used to support a set of nanofabrication, processing, and analytical tools in the Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST) NanoFab that are used as a shared resource accessible to researchers from industry, academia, NIST, and other government agencies. After results of this market research are obtained and analyzed, 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. Tool down time causes delays in critical CNST NanoFab projects and increases operational costs. Vacuum pump failures constitute a large percentage of the tool failures, and repair or replacement of some vacuum pump models have long lead times. To minimize tool downtime and control costs the CNST intends to maintain a complete set of spare vacuum pumps to support the CNST NanoFab's tool set. The spare pumps will be drop-in replacements for the pumps listed in Table 1. The pumps being purchased include cryogenic pumps, turbo-molecular (turbo) pumps and dry roughing pumps as itemized in the table. The pumps shall meet the following requirements. 1. GENERAL REQUIREMENTS: a. Condition: NIST will consider both new and refurbished vacuum pumps. i. Refurbished pumps must include a full "as new" warranty. ii. For refurbished pumps, the vendor shall include information about how each vacuum pump is evaluated, refurbished, and tested. A general overview of the process is acceptable. b. Equivalence: The vendor may suggest equal performance pumps using other brand or model equipment however alternates must connect to facility and equipment in the same manner without modification. c. Supply: The vendor does not need to supply every pump listed in Table 1. Indicate which vacuum pumps can be provided. Indicate ‘new', ‘refurbished', or ‘both'. d. Lead time: The vendor shall indicate typical lead time for each pump supplied. If available in both new and refurbished, indicate lead time for each. e. Pricing: The vendor shall provide pricing for each pumps in Table 1. If the vendor offers both new and refurbished, indicate pricing for each. Table 1 Type Brand Model Cryo CTI Cryo CTI 16 Cryo CTI Cryo CTI 10 Cryo CTI Cryo CTI 4 Dry Rough Adixen ACP28G Dry Rough Adixen ACP40G Dry Rough Edwards iH80 Dry Rough Edwards iH1000 Dry Rough Adixen Drytel Dry Rough Edwards iH600 Pump pack Peiffer PK101T Pump pack Peiffer PKT01 Scroll ScrollVac SC30D Scroll Edwards XDS10 Scroll Edwards XDS15 Scroll Edwards XDS35 Turbo Adixen ATP 80 Turbo Adixen ATH 1600M Turbo Alcatel ATP 900C DN200 ISO-K Turbo Leybold TURBOVAC 361 C Turbo Adixen ATH 400M Turbo KYKY F-160/620E Turbo Peiffer HIPACE80 Turbo Peiffer 1400L/s (SPTS) Turbo Edwards STPA1300C 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, 333914, as those domestic sources having 750 employees or less. Please include your company's size classification and socio-economic status in any response to this notice. Companies that manufacture or distribute pumps are requested to email a detailed report describing their abilities to forest.crumpler@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 forest.crumpler@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.