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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 five (5) low dark current, interference fringe free, temperature-controlled photometers. 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 five (5) low dark current, interference fringe free, temperature-controlled photometers that meets the following minimum specifications: 1. The detector chamber that includes the optical window, precision aperture, photometric filter, photodiode shall be sealed, filled with clean and dry nitrogen gas at one atmosphere, and temperature-regulated using a thermo-electric cooler. 2. The optical path of the detector chamber shall not have interference effect (fringes) with a coherent laser source (such as a helium-neon laser source). 3. The dark current of the photometer shall be less than 20 femto ampere when the detector chamber is controlled at 25 degrees Celsius. 4. The photodiode sensing area shall be 10 mm by 10 mm square, and its shunt resistor shall be greater than 5 Giga ohms at 25 degrees Celsius. 5. The aperture size shall be 4 mm diameter. 6. f1' value shall be less than 1.5 %. 7. Housing shall be in a cylindrical shape and not exceed 63.5 mm in diameter and 30 mm in length. NIST is seeking responses from all responsible small business sources Small businesses are defined under the size standard of 1,000 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 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 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 August 8,2019 at 11:59 pm EST. Points of Contact: Tracy Retterer, Contract Specialist, Phone (301) 975-8448, Email: tracy.bisson@nist.gov