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To meet mission requirements; the MMSD needs to procure a microscopy cold stage system to provide temperature control of samples down to 4.3K. This acquisition will allow the Material Measurement Labo... To meet mission requirements; the MMSD needs to procure a microscopy cold stage system to provide temperature control of samples down to 4.3K. This acquisition will allow the Material Measurement Laboratory’s Microscopy and Microanalysis Research Group (MMRG) to make improvements in the technology of the measurement tools and techniques for the microanalysis of materials systems: imaging and analysis of inorganic/organic nanostructure and morphology. The purchase of this microscopy cold stage system is necessary to permit the imaging and analysis of chemically complex samples such as organic/inorganic nano-composites, compacted powders and fibers. Pursuant to this application, the Raman Microscopy Cryo-Stage System upgrade must be software compatible with REST API ™ as well as CryostationComm.dll TM due to pre-existing custom software and pin-to-pin to existing hardware. MMSD requires a Raman Microscopy Cryo-Stage System upgrade that is pin-to-pin compatible to the Montana Instruments, Generation 3 Cryostation s100 Series System platform. Market research has concluded no other equipment will be fully compatible with the NIST owned equipment and authorized resellers for Montana instruments are not available. Given these facts, Montana Instruments is the only source reasonably available to provide the required upgrades. The resulting purchase order will be a Firm Fixed Price purchase order. The NAICS Code is 334516 with a size standard of 1000 employees. No solicitation package will be issued. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive quotations; however, interested parties who regard themselves as capable of fulfilling these requirements are invited to submit responses to the Government for consideration. Responses received by 11:00 am EST August 25, 2020, will be considered by the Government. A determination by the Government not to compete the proposed acquisition based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information received will normally be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement.