Procurement Summary
Country: USA
Summary: Sources Sought Notice for Optical Table Delivery and Installation
Deadline: 08 Aug 2025
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Notice Type: Tender
TOT Ref.No.: 123917316
Document Ref. No.: NB684070-25-02453
Financier: Self Financed
Purchaser Ownership: Public
Tender Value: Refer Document
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Description
The purpose of this sources sought notice is to conduct market research and identify potential sources of commercial products/services that satisfy the Government-s anticipated needs.
BACKGROUND
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), requires instruments for acoustic primary measurement standards. This work is led by NIST-s Mass and Force Group in the Quantum Measurement Division, which carries out research for improved metrology of mass, force, and dynamic mechanical quantities to meet the needs and demands of U.S. industry, government, and the scientific community.
Ongoing mission-critical work includes the development of acoustic primary measurement standards. The refractive index sound standard project exploits the interplay between sound waves and light to create what may become a new, more accurate and flexible standard for measuring sound. The refractive index sound standard project requires a space for developing an expanded scope of measurements in the critical areas of infrasound, coupler-geometry, and broadband time-domain (high-throughput) techniques. A laboratory has been emptied and renovated for this purpose; completion of this project requires the purchase and installation of a new optical table in the laboratory. The optical table must be sufficiently sized, rigid, and damped to provide a platform for future opto-acoustic measurements in which vibrations are generated on the table.
NIST is seeking information from sources that may be capable of providing a solution that will achieve the objectives described above, in addition to the following essential requirements:
Line Item 0001:
Description: Optical table top
Quantity: 1 table top
Technical Specifications Overall dimensions shall be at least 4 feet wide, 10 feet long, and 12 inches thick. Maximum length 10 feet ±1 inch. The stainless-steel working surface skin thickness shall be at least 4 mm. Working surface flatness...
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Notice ID : NB684070-25-02453
Related Notice
Department/Ind. Agency : COMMERCE, DEPARTMENT OF
Sub-tier : NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY
Office: DEPT OF COMMERCE NIST
General Information
Contract Opportunity Type: Sources Sought (Original)
Original Published Date: Aug 04, 2025 09:53 am EDT
Original Response Date: Aug 08, 2025 11:00 am EDT
Inactive Policy: 15 days after response date
Original Inactive Date: Aug 23, 2025
Initiative: None
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Product Service Code:
NAICS Code: 334516 - Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing
Place of Performance: Gaithersburg, MD 20899 USA
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