SOURCES SOUGHT
P -- Recovery of Super Alloys
- Notice Date
- 9/28/2006
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 562111
— Solid Waste Collection
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Air Force, Air Combat Command, 355 CONS, 3180 S Craycroft Rd, Davis Monthan AFB, AZ, 85707-3522
- ZIP Code
- 85707-3522
- Solicitation Number
- Reference-Number-FA4877-06-RFI01
- Response Due
- 10/31/2006
- Description
- THIS IS A MARKET RESEARCH / SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE SEEKING INFORMATION ONLY. THE GOVERNMENT DOES NOT HAVE A REQUIREMENT FOR ACQUISITION. THE GOVERNMENT IS LOOKING FOR BUSINESS SOURCES THAT CAN OR COULD PROVIDE THE FOLLOWING: Information on the processes, capabilities, and resources required to perform the recovery of the super alloys from excess military weapon systems and components for the purpose of recycling/reintroduction into the DoD supply chain in support of military equipment and aircraft engine manufacture, 1. Background: The Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC) is a one-of-a-kind specialized facility within the Air Force Materiel Command structure. AMARC provides critical aerospace maintenance and regeneration capabilities for Joint and Allied/Coalition warfighters in support of global operations and agile combat support for a wide range of military operations. Functional responsibilities of the Center include storage, reclamation, regeneration and disposal of aerospace aircraft declared excess to military operational requirements. Located in the Sonoran desert of Tucson, Arizona, AMARC is a tenant on Davis-Monthan Air Force Base. A major industrial center occupying 2,600 acres, AMARC manages an inventory of more than 4,200 aircraft, 40 aerospace vehicles and 350,000 line items of production tooling. In addition to the historic storage and disposition mission, the Center?s highly skilled 662-member workforce regenerates aircraft, returning them to flying status or preparing them for overland shipment. The AMARC team also reclaims hundreds of millions of dollars worth of parts to support global warfighting operations. An Air Force 2004 Organizational Excellence Award recipient, AMARC provides a critical capability among AFMC war-winning organizations. The Center will continue to embrace new and innovative techniques necessary to best serve the DoD Services, joint and allied/coalition partners well into the future. 2. Goal: Seek and research vectors for focused recycle/reuse of super alloy elements found in components of aircraft engines, airframe structural elements, and components of aircraft stored at AMARC. 3. Purpose: This RFI is issued for the purpose of gathering information from Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service (DRMS) and commercial industry regarding industry practices of the processing of condemned/excess engines, airframes and components and recovery of critical materials from the residue of such processing. 4. Implementation Objectives: Please ensure that, at a minimum, the following is defined: 4.1. Retrieval, Segregation and Collection of Components Containing Super Alloys. These activities should be such that reflect minimal to no impact to existing production. Resource for asset recovery originating from surplus equipment and components of retired and condemned property. Include how disassembly would be accomplished for various configurations of aircraft and aircraft engines with examples of how this effort has been accomplished in the past 4.2. Control of Material: The material in question will include Flight Safety Critical Aircraft Parts (FSCAP) and other parts that typically require demilitarization prior to disposition. The vector should include a methodology for handling such material and include procedures/plans for complying with Department of Defense, Departments of the Air Force, Navy, Army and Marines regulations in handling such items. Include how items would be identified as to their containing super alloys and specifically how such specific components containing super alloys would be managed, packaged, processed, shipped and controlled to insure highest benefit to the U.S. Air Force. Include examples of past experiences with these process recommendations. 4.3. Environmental Compliance: The vector should include processes and procedures related to safe handling and processing (including disposal) components considered to be hazardous materials (i.e., as a stand alone part and/or a concentration of similar parts, etc.). Include what issues of Environmental compliance and what potentially hazardous materials/chemicals may arise as a result of the processes recommended for component disassembly, handling, recovery and residue disposal and how will those issues and materials be dealt with. How will these issues vary with process execution at other than the AMARC site (e.g. other counties, states) 4.4. Data: The vector should outline the viable management data elements associated with such a program along with data sources and key objectives and utility of each category. Data required for the management of the material, process and effectiveness of the initiative should be identified along with the measures/metrics recommended to ensure objectives are being satisfied. 4.5. Benefits: Immediate benefit to AMARC, and long range benefit to the Propulsion Environmental Working Group, the USAF, Department of Defense and the entire aerospace industry. The vector should reflect an economically solvent, efficient and effective business arrangement. Include estimated tangible and intangible benefits from the proposed process, address benefits for all parties including those not responsible for the recovery process itself but are recipients of the super alloys itself.. 4.6 Response Format: Responses to this request should be formulated to include addressing each of the issues identified in paragraphs 4.1 through 4.5 and submitted in Word document form (power point charts or excel spreadsheets may be included within the body of the submission or as attachments. Submission must be received in electronic format as a minimum (email and/or CD disk permissible depending upon FTP restrictions) with hardcopies if desired mailed to: AMARC Mining the Skies Attention: Robert Foley Resource Management Division 4860 S. Superior Ave, Bldg 7328 Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ 85707-6240 5. AGAIN THIS IS A SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE ONLY. WE ARE CONDUCTING MARKET RESEARCH. THE GOVERNMENT DOES NOT HAVE A REQUIREMENT FOR THE ABOVE STATED ITEMS. WE ARE LOOKING FOR BUSINESS SOURCES AND SUPER ALLOY MATERIALS RECOVERY PROCESS RECOMMENDATIONS ONLY. THE GOVERNMENT WILL NOT PAY FOR ANY INFORMATION SUBMITTED IN RESPONSE TO THIS REQUEST. If you have any questions of a technical nature regarding this request for informattion please contact Mr. Robert Foley via e-mail at robert.foley@dm.af.mil or phone (520) 228-8881. If you have any general questions, of a contracting nature, regarding this request please contact Mr. David Harrison via e-mail at david.harrison@dm.af.mil or phone (520) 228-5405. 6. Responses to this RFI shall be accepted until 31 October, 2006 at the address above.
- Place of Performance
- Address: Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ
- Zip Code: 85707
- Country: UNITED STATES
- Zip Code: 85707
- Record
- SN01156953-W 20060930/060928220500 (fbodaily.com)
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