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This is a SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE to determine the availability of all responsible sources, including large, non-profit, foreign, and small businesses (e.g., 8(a), service-disabled veteran owned small business, HUBZone small business, small disadvantaged business, veteran-owned small business, and women-owned small business) under NAICS code, 334516, that have the capability, experience, and expert knowledge to provide the NIST NSLS-II SST Beamline Backbones and NIST NSLS-II BMM Beamline Mirror Systems transfers and focuses the NSLS-II x-rays for the full field microscopes and other experimental stations and techniques described below. The x-rays are produced by NSLS-II canted tender and low energy undulators and a three-pole wiggler source.

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