Combine Solicitation – 66– The US Army requires a safe, laser-Doppler Vibrometer to conduct its FY14-16 quote mark Assessment of the Middle-ear quote mark.

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Combine Solicitation - 66-- The US Army requires a safe, laser-Doppler Vibrometer to conduct its FY14-16 quote mark Assessment of the Middle-ear quote mark.

Notice Type: Combine Solicitation

Posted Date: 23-DEC-13

Office Address: Department of the Army; U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity; US Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity, ATTN: MCMR-AAA, 820 Chandler Street, Frederick, MD 21702-5014

Subject: 66-- The US Army requires a safe, laser-Doppler Vibrometer to conduct its FY14-16 quote mark Assessment of the Middle-ear quote mark.

Classification Code: 66 - Instruments & laboratory equipment

Solicitation Number: W81XWH-14-T-006

Contact: Hugo Robinson, 301-619-7811 mailto:hugo.m.robinson.civ@mail.mil [US Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity]

Setaside: Total Small BusinessTotal Small Business

Place of Performance (address): US Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity ATTN: MCMR-AAA, 820 Chandler Street Frederick MD

Place of Performance (zipcode): 21702-5014

Place of Performance Country: US

Description: Department of the Army

U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity

This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in Subpart 12.6, as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; proposals are being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued. Minimal Essential Characteristics [MEC's] for Laser-Doppler Vibrometer for Hearing Measurements The US Army requires a laser-Doppler Vibrometer to conduct its FY14-16 quote mark Assessment of the Middle-ear quote mark. This equipment must be safe for use with human volunteers. It will be used to examine the response of the middle ear musculature (affecting the tympanic membrane) to acoustic impulses. Manufacturer: Polytec quote mark Laser-Doppler Vibrometer for Hearing Measurements quote mark ; brand name or equal. Numbers in parentheses refer to Polytec part numbers.) The Laser-Doppler Vibrometer for Hearing Measurements must have the following characteristics: 1) Must be compatible with SONY PMW-10MD Full HD Medical Grade Camera System (Customer supplied). This will be a stand-alone camera for displaying the image of the microscope to an audience and acquiring very high resolution images while performing HLV measurements. Camera interacts with the HLV hardware through a microscope port but not with the HLV software. 2) Must be fully compatible with Carl Zeiss OPMI 1-FC ENT Microscope (Customer supplied), 3) Laser-Doppler Vibrometer for Hearing Measurements (OFV-5534-17) a) High Performance Modular Controller (OFV-5000) i) For operation with standard or fiber-optic laser sensor heads. Accepts up to two velocity decoders, one displacement decoder and one special (auxiliary) decoder. ii) 5 m interconnecting cable to sensor head. iii) Low pass (5, 20 and 100 kHz), high pass (100Hz) and tracking filters. iv) For digital decoders, adaptive filters are available and can be installed in addition to the standard filters. v) SPDIF interface (optical and electronic) for digital velocity decoders. vi) Rack mount brackets are needed. RS-232 interface for remote control of all settings via software. b) Velocity Output Decoder, Digital, Wide Bandwidth (VD-09) i) 8 velocity ranges from 5mm/s/V to 1000mm/s/V. Maximum bandwidth 2.5MHz (range dependent). Maximum velocity 10m/s. ii) Linearity 0.5% iii) Analog output iv) The VD-09 can easily be combined with the DD-900 decoder for providing an output signal proportional to displacement. c) Velocity Output Decoder, Digital, 8-Range m/s. (VD-08) i) Maximum amplitude +/- 0.5 ii) The VD-08 offers up to a 10 dB gain in sensitivity to backscattered light from poorly scattering surfaces. The actual gains are range sensitive and available upon request. Analog Output gain and maximum operating frequency: (1) 0.2 mm/s/V 5 kHz, (2) 0.5 mm/s/V 5 kHz, (3) 1 mm/s/V 10 kHz, (4) 2 mm/s/V 20 kHz, (5) 5 mm/s/V 20 kHz, (6) 10 mm/s/V 20 kHz, (7) 20 mm/s/V 25 kHz, (8) 50 mm/s/V 25 kHz, d) Adaptive Filter Module (LF-02) i) DSP-based filter, frequency range 0 - 22 kHz Improves signal-to-noise ratio in case of uncorrelated (random, not periodic) noise from DC to 22 kHz. ii) Three frequency ranges DC - 300 Hz, DC - 2 kHz, DC - 20 kHz allow optimal adaption. e) Compact Sensor Head with External Laser Unit (OFV-534) i) Compatible with high-end model OFV-5000 controller. ii) Manual variable focus lens from 200mm to infinity, compact dimensions of the IP50 protected sensor head housing and a 5m connection cable to the laser unit. f) Video Camera for OFV-534 Compact Sensor Head (OFV-A-534-CAM) i) Integrated color video camera providing an NTSC output signal via a connector on the laser unit. ii) Please note that video display is also supported by VibSoft/VDD from version 4.4 onwards. iii) OFV-A-534-CAM can only be ordered at the same time and together with model OFV-534 sensor. A subsequent installation is not possible. iv) 2 meter fiber optic cable extension for OFV-534 laser head (OFV-FL-005) 4) 4-Channel Data Acquisition System for Hearing Measurements (VIBSOFT-84-HLV) comprising: a) VIBSOFT with 80kHz Four-channel Data Acquisition System configured for hearing measurements (VIBSOFT-84) i) Data acquisition in time and frequency domain, digital filters, signal averaging and real-time integration and differentiation in time as well as frequency domain. ii) Advanced peak-hold function with quote mark Signal Enhancement quote mark for dropout protection. Extensive data analysis software package includes complex spectral analysis of H1, H2, FRF, phase and coherence includes, (1) Junction box with USB for automatic recognition of software for connecting input, gate and trigger signals (VIB-E-400) designed for use with ICP sensors, (a) Gate input software (VIB-S-GateIn) (b) Four-channel simultaneous sampling (VIB-S-Ch4) (c) extension to 12,800 FFT lines (VIB-S-FFT128) (d) VIB-S-VBEng Visual Basic Engine. (e) SAX Basic Engine and Polytec File Access Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) compatible programming interface to create Basic scripts for automation of measurements and data presentation. Includes integrated development environment (IDE) for programming and de-bugging. (f) Software DLL to access information and data stored in Polytec files via Microsoft's standard Component Object Model (COM). All programming languages that support COM can be used (only for Windows operating systems). Now includes UDDS User Defined Data Sets for adding external or post-processed data to existing Polytec measurement files. (g) With UDDS COM clients or Basic scripts overlays of measurement results, subtracting of results and various other user defined manipulations can be performed and displayed in Polytec software.VIB-S-ExpUFF Software for Conversion of Data Files to UFF Format. (h) Basic software maintenance for one year following delivery (VIBSOFT-S-SM-B) iii) VibSoft/VDD Software Maintenance Contract (VIB-S-SM-3) (1) 36 Months extra Commences on one year anniversary of delivery date of VIBSOFT system. Provides new releases of software for an additional 36 months period. b) VibSoft Video Option (VIB-S-Video), i) Video option for VibSoft and VDD software. Combined with a video camera equipped vibrometer sensor (OFV-534, MSV-050, MSV-100, OFV-T-031 etc.) (1) A live video image is displayed in the software and can be saved together with the measurement data. (2) VIB-S-Video is compatible with the model VCT-101 Firewire camera (requires PC system with Firewire connector) and with composite video output analog cameras (requires Polytec Graphics adaptor PC board, already included in PC-I and PC-D Polytec Data Management Systems). c) Internal Arbitrary Waveform Generator for VIBSOFT-84 (VIB-S-SIG-H), i) Includes signal generator board and software for providing the following sources: ii) Sine, Periodic Chirp, Pseudo Random, Burst Chirp, Burst Random, True Random, Rectangle, Triangle, Ramp and User-Defined. iii) Three output channels. Channels are uncorrelated if random or white noise functions are selected. Otherwise they output an identical signal. iv) Output voltage: +/- 10 V v) Max. output current: +/- 5 mA Max. signal frequency: 80 kHz d) FFT Line Number Extension (Polytec Part Number VIB-S-FFTEXT) i) Extended number of FFT lines. Possible settings are: (1) 25,600 lines (2) 51,200 lines (3) 102,400 lines (4) 204,800 lines e) Polytec Signal Processor for VibSoft and VDD Software (VIB-S-SigPro), i) The Polytec Signal Processor is the user interface to the math library included in the VibSoft software. ii) Designed as an easy-to-use spreadsheet, measurement data from different sources can be post processed by simple drag and drop operations. Data can easily be shown in one plot, subtracted from each other, and so on. Various operations can be applied such as: (1) FFT (2) Inverse FFT (3) Digital filters (4) Windowing functions (5) Basic math function (+; -; *; /) (6) Integration, differentiation (7) Extracting data iii) To apply these operations to a stored measurement is as easy as defining a formula to the contents of one or more cells in the spread sheet and drag the measurement file from the internal browser to the defined cells. iv) The operations can be applied to the complete sets of scanning data. The results are stored as User Defined Data Sets (UDDS). The operations (formulas) can be stored in a special file type (*.spd) to allow repeated operations on different measurement data, without storing the complete data sets. f) Industrial Polytec Workstation with Rack-mountable Industrial Housing (PC-I), i) Minimum configuration: Quad core CPU, 8 GB RAM 2 TB hard drive, DVD recorder, LAN, High-end graphics board with dual DVI monitor input, Optical mouse, Keyboard Windows 7 64 bit Ultimate Professional operating system with 24 quote mark flat panel monitor g) Mobile Cabinet (PSV-A-013) i) Mobile industrial cabinet for HLV. ii) Controller, junction box, data management system and accessories are mounted into a cabinet with wheels for easy transportation. iii) Front and rear protection covers. All cables can be left connected with exception of power cord and laser head cable. Includes full integration iv) For shipment KEEP ORIGINAL CRATE. 5) Hearing Laser Vibrometer in Vivo Measurement Kit (Polytec Part Number A-HLV-VIVO-KIT) comprises: a) Joystick-style Micromanipulator for Clinical (A-HLV-MM30), b) A-HLV-SPEC, Speculum Adapter for In-vivo Vibrometer Measurements. c) AER-72 Set of probe microphone and earphone for A-HLV- SPEC includes replacement probe tubing. d) A-GM093, high-current trans-impedance amplifier with 24-bit, 192kHz DAC for amplification of reference probe microphone. 6) 3-day on-site training (TRA-3-B) a) Training materials included for 3 to 4 participants, all travel expenses are included. b) Delivery at US Army Aeromedical Research Lab facilities (all shipping and insurance of all goods is covered by vendor). c) Partial installation done at Irvine CA offices, see quote JFO _42335_130227_USARMY_HLV_9 d) It is required that the customer provides onsite assistance as in the shape of forklift and operator assistance. What the Product/Equipment Accomplish: This item will support the USAARL Acoustics Branch research projects on modeling the effects of acoustic impulses on the middle ear.