Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Acquisition Management Division, 100 Bureau Drive, Building 301, Room B129, Mail Stop 1640, Gaithersburg, MD, 20899-1640
The National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST) seeks information on commercial vendors that are capable in providing On-Site Preventative Maintenance Service on a FEI NOVANANOSEM 600 Scanning Microscope (Serial Number D7974) located at NIST, Gaithersburg, Maryland.
The preventive maintenance service shall be for a period of twelve (12) months and include the following:
-A minimum of two schedule preventive maintenance visits per year
-Factory certified replacement parts and software updates
- Response to service calls Monday through Friday, during the hours of 8:00 AM and 5:00 PM.
- Unlimited corrective maintenance calls
- Repairs completed within 48 hours
- Replacement parts within 48 hours of determination of need
- Parts installed/replaced in the instrument as specified or certified by FEI Company in the instrument technical drawing or specification
-Full access to the latest FEI Company's NOVANANOSEM 600 Scanning Microscope repair procedures, application updates, diagnostic software, and planned maintenance procedures.

After results of this market research are obtained and analyzed for the Preventative Maintenance Service on a FEI NOVANANOSEM 600 Scanning Microscope that can meet NIST's minimum requirements, 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.
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, 811219, as those domestic sources having a size standard of $5.0M. Please include your company's size classification in any response to this notice.
Companies that provide FEI Preventative Maintenance Service are requested to email a detailed report describing their abilities to [email protected] no later than the response date for the sources sought notice. The report should include verification that the Offeror is an authorized FEI dealer, trained and certified by the manufacturer and any other relevant information that is not listed above which the Government should consider in developing its minimum specifications and finalizing its market research.
Point of Contact
Prateema Carvajal, Contracting Specialist, Phone (301) 975-8802, Email: [email protected]

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