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COMBINED SYNOPSIS/SOLICITATION Brand name or Equal Digital Oscilloscope This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in FAR Subpart 12.6 - Streamlined Procedures for Evaluation and Solicitation for Commercial Items, as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; quotations are being requested, and a separate written solicitation document will not be issued. This solicitation is being issued under the authority of FAR Part 13 Simplified Acquisition Procedures. This solicitation is a Request for Quotations (RFQ). The solicitation document and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular (FAC) 2019-05 effective August 13, 2019. The associated North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) code for this procurement is 334516 with a small business size standard of 1000 Employees. This acquisition is being procured as a Full and Open, Brand Name or Equal competition. The National Institute of Standards and Technology's, The Chemical Sciences Division (CSD), in NIST's Material Measurement Laboratory, serves as the Nation's reference laboratory for chemical measurements and standards to enhance U.S. industry's productivity and competitiveness, assure equity in trade, and provide quality assurance for chemical measurements used for assessing and improving public health, safety, and the environment. In the Division's plasma laboratories, radio-frequency electrical discharges are monitored using current and voltage probes. Oscilloscopes are used to digitize and display the probe signals and then transfer them to computers for further analysis. This application differs in important respects from more typical uses of oscilloscopes as general-purpose instruments for characterizing and debugging electrical systems. The signals to be measured are not the typical square-wave pulsed waveforms with fast rise times that most oscilloscope users are interested in. Instead, the waveforms to be measured vary from nearly sinusoidal signals, to two- or three-tone combinations of sinusoids, to highly non-sinusoidal waveforms that may contain large harmonics of the driving frequency or frequencies. All may contain large dc components as well. The signals are displayed on the oscilloscope screen to provide rapid feedback to the user that the electrical discharge is operating normally, but all detailed analysis of the signals occurs off-board, i.e., on the computers that get sent the waveforms, not on the oscilloscope itself. To further the NIST mission, a new digital oscilloscope is required. Equipment the Government has research and determined to be acceptable are models HDO4104A or HDO6104A, when combined with optional adapter model USB-GPIB manufactured by Teledyne LeCroy. Responsible quoters shall provide pricing for the following Line Item: Line Item 0001: One Digital Oscilloscope meeting all of the salient characteristics within the attached Requirements document. DELIVERY Delivery shall be within 60 days of the date of award. The items shall be shipped F.O.B. Destination to: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY 100 Bureau Drive Gaithersburg MD 20899-0001 FOB DESTINATION MEANS: The contractor shall pack and mark the shipment in conformance with carrier requirements, deliver the shipment in good order and condition to the point of delivery specified in the purchase order, be responsible for loss of and/or damage to the goods occurring before receipt and acceptance of the shipment by the consignee at the delivery point specified in the purchase order; and pay all charges to the specified point of delivery. ACCEPTANCE CRITERIA AND PAYMENT Government Acceptance: Acceptance will occur after the Government Technical Point of Contact has confirmed that all minimum requirements in this document have been met. Payment: Advance payment is not authorized. Partial Payments are not authorized. The contractor may submit and invoice after Government acceptance has occurred. EVALUATION CRITERIA AND BASIS FOR AWARD The Government intends to award a purchase order resulting from this solicitation to the responsible quoter whose quotation, conforming to the solicitation, is the lowest price, technically acceptable quotation. Technically acceptable means that the Contractor provides a oscilloscope system that meets minimum requirements in the requirements document. Price will be evaluated for all quoters whose quotations are determined technically acceptable. Price will be evaluated to determine that total price is consistent with the technical portion of the quotation and is a fair and reasonable overall price to the Government. REQUIRED SUBMISSIONS All Contractors shall submit the following: 1. For the purpose of evaluation of Technical Acceptability: Quoters shall provide documentation that demonstrates the quoted instrument's ability to meet or exceed the minimum specifications in accordance with the requirements document. For the purpose of Price: Quoters shall provide firm-fixed price quotations for Line Item 0001. 2. Quoters shall include a completed copy of all required solicitation provisions contained in the attached Applicable Provisions/Clauses document (required provisions are highlighted) 3. Any award resulting from this solicitation will contain the following statement: "The Government's terms and conditions, identified herein, shall be the prevailing terms and conditions governing this award. In the event of a conflict between the Government's and contractor's terms and conditions, the Government's terms and conditions take precedence." If the Contractor objects to any of the terms and conditions contained in this solicitation, the contractor shall state "The terms and conditions in the solicitation are acceptable to be included in the award document with the exception, deletion, or addition of the following:" [Contractor shall list exception(s) and rationale for the exception(s)]. It is the sole responsibility of the Contractor to identify in their quote any exceptions to the terms and conditions of the solicitation. If the contractor does not include such a statement, the submission of a quotation in response to this solicitation will be regarded as the Contractor's acceptance of the Government's terms and conditions for inclusion into the resultant purchase order as prevailing. 4. Quoters shall provide an active DUNS # for the System for Award Management (SAM) registration. Quoters must have an active registration at www.SAM.Gov in order to be technically evaluated.