The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Acquisition Management Division, on behalf of the NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST), intends to negotiate on a sole source basis with Integrated Dynamics Engineering, Inc., located in Randolph. MA, under the authority of FAR Subpart 13.106-1(b), soliciting from a single source.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) requires vibration isolators for a custom designed vibration isolation system. The vibration isolation system is required for an advanced cryogenic scanning tunneling microscope in the Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST) Nanolab at NIST. This is a resource accessible to researchers in the CNST and to outside users via collaboration to measure a wide range of physical properties of materials. Measuring the properties of new nanostructured materials is a critical part of the CNST mission.

CNST requires the vibration isolators to be compatible, interchangeable, and controllable with the existing Integrated Dynamics Engineering (IDE) model TCN500 isolators and controllers manufactured and previously purchased from IDE. This requirement results from having the need to interchange isolators and spare parts in case of failure to keep critical experiments running for NIST staff and outside facility users. In addition, these isolators will be operated from existing IDE active control systems in situations, which demand active control. Only IDE TCN500 isolators can operate from our existing TCN500 control systems.

IDE does not license others to utilize their propriety designs. As a result, IDE is uniquely qualified to provide the required vibration isolators.

Delivery shall be FOB Destination, Gaithersburg, MD., and provided within 3 months from date of an award.

The NAICS Code is 334519 with a size standard of 500 employees. NIST anticipates negotiating and awarding a firm-fixed-price purchase order for this requirement.

No solicitation package will be issued. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive quotations; however, the Government will consider responses received by established date and time.

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.

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