SOURCES SOUGHT
99 -- Plasma Ordnance Demilitarization System
- Notice Date
- 6/2/2009
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Army, U. S. Army Materiel Command, US Army, Army Contracting Command, Joint Munitions and Lethality (JM&L) Contracting Center, US Army, Army Contracting Command, Joint Munitions and Lethality (JM&L) Contracting Center, Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey 07806-5000
- ZIP Code
- 07806-5000
- Solicitation Number
- W15QKN-09-X-1208
- Response Due
- 6/30/2009
- Archive Date
- 7/30/2009
- Point of Contact
- Krista Ellison, Contract Specialist, (973)724-6894<br />
- E-Mail Address
-
Krista Ellison
(krista.ellison@us.army.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The Army Contracting Command Joint Munitions and Lethality Life CycleManagement Command, on behalf of The US Army, is conducting a market survey to identify potential sources that are capable of providing a solution to a recurring problem with the operation of the Plasma Ordnance Demilitarization System (PODS). PODS is an incinerator that will be used for the demilitarization (destruction) of Military ordnance and is located at Hawthorne Army Depot (HWAD) in Hawthorne, NV. The problem being experienced is plugging of off gas piping. PODS consists of a primary processing chamber followed by a series of interconnected pollution abatement equipment (PAE). Initial processing of ordnance occurs in the primary processing chamber (PPC), which is an enclosed, oxygen enriched reaction vessel heated by an internally mounted plasma arc torch. The torch, in addition to providing the heat to combust the ordnance, also melts co-fed soil and iron into a slag bath. Ordnance fed from the top of the PPC drops into the slag bath where it melts and combusts. Combustion gasses reach temperatures of up to 2,200 F and are continuously drawn off the PPC through the PAE train, which consists of an afterburner, a wet quench, a wet acid gas absorber, a wet high energy scrubber, a dry bag house, and a NOx catalytic reducer. Plugging occurs in the off gas piping in the hot section of the PAE, between the PPC, the afterburner, and the wet quench units. Piping in this section is six inch inner diameter and refractory lined (for the purpose of keeping gases at an elevated temperature and high velocity) and features a number of 90 degree elbows. Plug material typically builds up in the elbows but also settles out on the bottom of some horizontal pipe runs and builds to a point where the process must be stopped and the plug cleared out to allow processing to continue. Plugging has been experienced when processing pyrotechnic munitions, including a hexachloroethane white smoke, a flare and a simulator. It is believed these items create a very heavy particulate load, which is evidenced by the fact that the wet portion of the system contains a heavy solids load. Equipment or process changes that prevent plugging from occurring are being sought and will allow for sustained ordnance processing, which is necessary for cost effective operation. Interested Offerers shall provide information on their capability of providing a solution to a recurring problem with the operation of the Plasma Ordnance Demilitarization System (PODS). All data should be sent at no cost to the US Government by June 30, 2009 to the US Army Contracting Command. ATTN: Krista M. Ellison, Bldg 10, Picatinny Arsenal, NJ 07866- 5000, email: krista.ellison@us.army.mil, Tel # (973) 724-6894. In addition, please provide the firms name and address, point of contact with telephone number and email address, and size of business (small/large). TELEPHONE INQUIRES WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. The Government will accept written questions by email. This is a market survey for information only and shall not be construed as a Request for Proposal (RFP), nor is the Government obligated to issue an RFP. The US Government does not intend to award a contract on the basis of this market survey or otherwise pay for information solicited. The government is not obligated to notify respondents of the results of this survey.
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