Amendment 0001 provides responses to questions received regarding this solicitation.

The National Museum of Health and Medicine (NMHM) requires the delivery of a Large Format Slide Scanner with the following functionalities and specifications:

System: Large Format Slide Scanner
- Includes three slide holder trays with choice of configuration
- Up to twelve 1x3” slides or six 2x3” slides, or one large slide up to 6x8”
- <1 minute scan for most slides
- Ability to scan and clearly capture images through thick slide cover slips between 0.7 to 1.2 mm.
- Ability to accommodate scanned slides up to 6x8” of irregular size slides glass with non-standard thickness
cover slip.
- Up to 40x magnification with 0.75 numerical aperture (na)
- Z-Stack Scanning
- Barcode reader
- One year warranty

 Onsite installation and training

 Computer and Monitor:
- Monitor minimum 24 inches
- Resolution: 2560x1440 with 2560 Pixels maximum vertical resolution
- CPU: Intel Xeon W-2255 CPU @ 3.7ghz
- RAM: 256 GB
- Windows 10 or 11 Operating System
- Storage 1 TB pc C drive, external or additional drive minimum 175 TB
 Shipping, Handling & One Year Warranty

The system needs to have the following capabilities:
- Ability to image in Brightfield Mode
- Accommodate slide Formats:
o 25mm x 75mm (1x3”)
o 50mm x 75mm (2x3”)
o Any slide up to 150mm x 200mm (6x8”)
- Optical Resolution 0.75 NA
- Resolution (ìm/pixel):
o Minimum of 0.2 at 40X
o Minimum of 0.4 at 20X
- Scan Speed <1 minute per slide 2 @ 15mm x 15mm @ 20X magnification
- File Formats:
o Non-proprietary 24-bit RGB pyramidal BigTIFF
o Uncompressed, JPEG or JPEG2000 compression
o Export to JPEG, Flat TIFF and LZW compressed TIFF

This equipment will be used to provide scanning capability for slide-based collections in general but specifically for large format slides with thick cover and base plates.

Questions pertaining to the solicitation requirements shall be submitted no later than 11:00 AM Eastern Time, 4 April 2024 to the Contract Specialist at daniil.y.pikus.civ@health.mil. The Quote due date is no later than 11:00 AM Eastern Time, 15 April 2024. Instructions to Offerors can be found under in the attached document under 52.212-1, and evaluation criteria can be found in the attached document under 52.212-2. Please see the attached document(s) for further details.

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