Summary
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued a Notice of Intent to award a sole-source, firm-fixed-price purchase order to Kistler Instrument Corporation for a Kistler Dynamometer System upgrade. The upgraded data acquisition system will support an existing Kistler 9257B dynamometer used by NIST's Engineering Laboratory / Intelligent Systems Division at its Gaithersburg, MD campus to measure real-time, SI-traceable cutting forces during machine tool operations. Interested parties that believe they can satisfy the requirements must submit a written capability statement by the response date to Contract Specialist Marvin Jean at marvin.jean@nist.gov.