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FBO DAILY ISSUE OF JULY 17, 2002 FBO #0227
SOLICITATION NOTICE

40 -- Synthetic fiber ropes for the Aerial Cable Range (ACR)in White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico.

Notice Date

7/15/2002
 

Notice Type

Solicitation Notice
 

Contracting Office

US Army Robert Morris Acquisition Center, White Sands Contracting Division, ATTN: AMSSB-ACW, Building 126 West, Crozier Street, White Sands Missile Range, NM 88002-5201
 

ZIP Code

88002-5201
 

Solicitation Number

DATM05-AERIAL-CABLE
 

Response Due

7/30/2002
 

Point of Contact

Orlando Hernandez, (505) 678-1647
 

E-Mail Address

Email your questions to US Army Robert Morris Acquisition Center, White Sands Contracting Division
(hernandezor@wsmr.army.mil)
 

Small Business Set-Aside

N/A
 

Description

NA The U.S. Army Robert Morris Acquisition Center (RMAC), White Sands Contracting Division, Building 143, 2nd Floor, White Sands Missile Range, NM 88002-5201 is planning to negotiate a requirements contract for a period of five years with Whitehill Manufacturing Corporation for manufacture of synthetic fiber ropes for the Aerial Cable Range (ACR). This will be a sole source contract unless additional rope manu facturer?s with a proven history of manufacturing large (greater than one mile in length and break strengths in excess of 400,000 lbs) contact the above within 15 days of this publication. Interested sources must demonstrate the manufacturing capability a nd provide test data verifying that they can furnish ropes that meet the following criteria: The fiber rope design shall be a complex 30 (1/6/12/12) strand right regular lay nested wire rope construction, with DuPont?s Kevlar? 129 with 960 finish fiber (or approved equal). All inner strands shall have a braided polyester jacket. The outer strand s shall have a polyester and Kevlar? jacket. The minimum rope break strength based on an average of three rope samples shall be 490,000 pounds force. The rope diameter as delivered shall not exceed 2.45 inches. The mean diameter of the rope, as measured on the eleventh load cycle at a tension of 150,000 pounds force shall not exceed 2.10 inches. The rope elongation shall not exceed 2.4% when the rope is under a tension of 200,000 pounds force. This measurement shall be made on the tenth load cycle. Th e rope shall be capable of surviving 50,000 bending cycles over 60-inch diameter sheave at a tension of 100,000 pounds. The stroke length shall have been a minimum of 12 feet, and a minimum cycle rate of 500 bending cycles per hour. Test data shall verif y that no outer strand looseness was present when the rope samples used in the above tests were relaxed to zero tension. The ability to handle the rope as manufactured, for installation capability at the ACR, without experiencing bird caging or herniated inner strands shall be demonstrated. Note:22
 

Place of Performance

Address: US Army Robert Morris Acquisition Center, White Sands Contracting Division ATTN: AMSSB-ACW, Building 126 West, Crozier Street White Sands Missile Range NM

Zip Code: 88002-5201

Country: US
 

Record

SN00116701-W 20020717/020715213448 (fbodaily.com)
 

Source

FedBizOpps.gov Link to This Notice
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