Trade Agreement: Agreement on Internal Trade (AIT)
Tendering Procedures: Generally only one firm has been invited to bid
Non-Competitive Procurement Strategy: Exclusive Rights
Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement: No
Vendor Name and Address:
Vertilon Corporation
66 Tadmuck Rd
Westford Massachusetts
United States
01886
Nature of Requirements:
Electronics for Muon Tomography
W7714-176236/A
Advance Contract Award Notice (ACAN)
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Requirement
Department of National Defence (for Defence Research and Development Canada) has a requirement for the procurement of supply of Electronics for Muon Tomography with a requested delivery date of 2017-03-31.
Background
Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC) Ottawa Research Centre’s Radiological Analysis and Defence (RAD) Group have been involved in muon scattering tomography (MST) research and development since 2008. The RAD Group collaborated on the successful Cosmic Ray Inspection and Passive Tomography (CRIPT) project which produced Canada’s first (and currently only) MST system. The RAD Group is now developing a smaller, mobile MST system called Muon Passive Inspection for Counter-terrorism (MuPIC). MuPIC employs plastic scintillators and wavelength shifting (WLS) plastic optical fibres (POFs) to detect and track muons produced by cosmic-ray-atmosphere interactions. A critical part of MuPIC is the read-out electronics and light detectors which detect the photons from the WLS POFs. This statement of requirements (SOR) describes the read-out electronics and light detectors that a contractor will produce for MuPIC.
GSIN: N5975.
Acronyms
CRIPT Cosmic Ray Inspection and Passive Tomography
DRDC Defence Research and Development Canada
MST muon scattering tomography
MuPIC Muon Passive Inspection for Counter-terrorism
POFs plastic optical fibres
RAD Radiological Analysis and Defence
SOR Statement of Requirements
TA Technical Authority
WLS wavelength shifting
SIPm Silicon Photomultiplier
Technical Requirements
The electronic system for all submitted statements of capabilities must meet the following technical requirements:
1. ELECTRONICS FOR PORTABLE MUON TOMOGRAPHY SYSTEM
Required quantity: One complete electronics system for reading out muon tomography system.
In order to confirm compliance, Contractors interested in submitting a statement of compliance must clearly demonstrate that their product meets each of the criteria in Table 1.1 Requirements.
Table 1.1 Requirements
Specification 1.1.1 : Detector Module Boards (DMBs); dimensions.
Value 1.1.1 : Each of the 56 DMBs must be 250 mm wide and no more than 200 mm long.
Specification 1.1.2 : Number of light detectors and electronics channels per DMB
Value 1.1.2 : Each DMB must include 16 surface-mounted light detectors to read out the light produced by the scintillator bars. Must be able to perform pre-amplification, charge integration and 14-bit digitization of each SiPM signal. There must also be a 50 ns delay on the signal before it is charge integrated.
Specification 1.1.3 : Light detectors
Value 1.1.3 : Light detectors must be SensL MicroFJ-30035-TSV-TA 3mm x3mm silicon multipliers (SiPMs).
Specification 1.1.4 : Discriminator
Value 1.1.4 : Each DMB must include a discriminator for the summed SiPM signals with a programmable threshold between 1% of 50% of the maximum possible signal voltage.
Specification1.1.5 : Read-out architecture
Value 1.1.5 : The DMBs must be daisy-chained via serial interfaces to minimize the total length of cables used to connect the DMBs to the DAU
Specification 1.1.6 : System throughput
Value 1.1.6 : The system must handle event rates, without loss, of up to 10kHz (i.e. the inter-event time must be
