The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has a requirement for vacuum capability for NIST 500 mm guarded-hot-plate apparatus. The Contractor shall provide one vertical baseplate assembly, fourteen feedthroughs and blanking flanges installed, hold-down clamp system, one enclosure chamber, engineering drawings and copies of engineering calculations. The Contractor shall assemble the items at the Contractor's facility and conduct testing. The Government will provide the Support Frame and Cart and Type N and Type T thermocouple wire to Contractor feedthroughs. Delivery shall be FOB Destination, NIST, Gaithersburg, Maryland. The government anticipates awarding a Firm-Fixed Price purchase order utilizing Simplified Acquisition Procedures. This acquisition is a 100% small business set-aside. The NAICS code is 334516 with a size standard of 500 employees. The competitive solicitation, solicitation amendments, and all questions and answers related to this procurement will be made available via the Internet at Hyperlink http://www.fedbizops.gov/. The solicitation, SB1341-02-Q-0195 is anticipated for release to the vendor community on or about January 22, 2002 and will only be available via the Internet at the above web site. Potential offerors are responsible for accessing the web site. Interested parties must respond to the solicitation in order to be considered for award of any resultant purchase order. There is no written solicitation document available, telephone requests will not be honored, and no bidders list will be maintained. Potential offerors are requested to direct all questions via email to [email protected]. See Notes 1 and 26.

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