SOLICITATION NOTICE
36 -- Fiber Placement Machine
- Notice Date
- 11/1/2011
- Notice Type
- Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
- NAICS
- 333298
— All Other Industrial Machinery Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- N68936 NAVAL AIR WARFARE CENTER WEAPONS DIVISION DEPT.1 Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division Dept.1 429 E. Bowen Rd - Stop 4015 China Lake, CA
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- N6893612T0009
- Response Due
- 12/1/2011
- Archive Date
- 12/1/2012
- Point of Contact
- Benson Kamau (760)-939-8896 Tara Brandt
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- This is a combined synopsis solicitation prepared in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation Part 12. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; proposals are being requested and a written solicitation will be not issued. The solicitation (N68936-12-T-0009) is being issued as a request for quotation. This notice and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in affect the FAR. The Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division (NAWCWD) China Lake, CA intends to procure a QTY of 1 Fiber Placement Machine. 3.0Requirements (Fiber Placement Machine) 3.1.1The machine shall be capable of handling part diameters from 1 inch up to 48 inches, including flat surfaces, concave and convex contours. 3.1.2The machine shall be capable of parts from 1 foot to 10 feet in length. 3.1.3The machine shall be capable of handling tooling and parts up to 3 tons. 3.1.4The machine must fit into a footprint of 20 feet long by 15 feet deep by 15 feet high. 3.1.5The machine must use available resources, (The existing facilities have electrical power available up to 200 Amp 480 VAC/ 3 phase 60 Hz, as well as compressed air at ~100 psi maximum and ~500L/minute.) 3.1.6The machine shall be capable of processing commercially available Automated Tape Laying (ATL) grade thermosetting resin and fiber systems to include: fiberglass, PAN graphite, Kevlar, epoxies, cyanate esters, bismaleimides and polyimides. These materials may be in slit tape or tow-preg format. 3.1.7The head of the machine shall have a provision for being interchangeable to allow for use of other materials such as thermoplastics and phenolic tapes. 3.1.8The machine shall have at least 5 axes of motion to adequately place fiber in the correct locations and orientations. 3.1.9The machine shall have a placement head that holds at least 4 tows/tapes. Each tow/tape will be up to 0.250" wide. The head shall be capable of independently placing all of the tows/tapes (minimum 4). 3.1.10The tows/tapes shall be placed with angle accuracy of ± 0.50o of the programmed angle. The fiber angle shall be adjustable in 1.0o increments at a minimum. 3.1.11The machine must be capable of mid-path angle changes. 3.1.12The head must be capable of placing material as short as 3.5" in length, up to the entire length of the part (10 feet). 3.1.13The machine shall have a compaction roller on the head capable of applying up to 200 lb to the part, adjustable in 10 pound increments (minimum). 3.1.14The machine shall have a provision for maintaining some tension on the fiber creels so that fouling of the fiber is avoided. 3.1.15The fiber placement machine shall have a method for tacking in place the composite material. The material does not need to be cured in place, but must hold shape through construction and transfer to an oven or autoclave. 3.1.16The fiber placement machine shall include all control hardware and software. There are two essential pieces of software to be included with the system. 3.1.16.1There shall be software to control the fiber placement hardware. The machine shall automatically control material feed rate, compaction roller pressure, quantity of tows, fiber angles, fiber lengths, tacking heat temperature, and machine axis speeds. 3.1.16.2Software to model fiber placement on the tool mandrel is also required. The machine shall have a method to either generate a model of the part and tool or accept standard CAD/CAM files of parts and tools. The software shall also provide an optimized layup schedule to reduce excessive buildups and minimize gaps. These models must be accurately transferred to the machine control software to maintain the layup pattern. 3.1.17The fiber placement machine shall have interfaces and controls for the operator. There shall be controls for axes, feed rates, tack temperature, compaction pressure, machine speed, and tow enable/disable. 3.1.18The machine shall also have a display to show the operator what the machine is doing. The display shall show in real time axial positions, estimated layer completion time, tack temperature, material feed rate, machine speed, compaction load and warnings/errors. 3.1.19The machine shall have manual control buttons to move axes of the machine outside of a software program running. 3.1.20The fiber placement machine shall have hard or soft stops to prevent the head from crashing into any part of the frame. There shall also be soft stops to prevent the head from crashing into the tool/part while running a program. Further, there must be emergency stops (E-stops) available for an operator to stop the machine from critical locations around the machine. These E-stops shall lock all axes, disable the tacking heat and compaction roller, shut out power to the head and turning chuck. 4.0Deliverables 4.1Fiber placement machine 4.2Hardware instruction manual 4.3Software instruction manuals 4.4Electrical wiring diagrams 4.5Mechanical interface drawings 4.6Maintenance manuals 5.0Special Considerations 5.1All deliverables shall be delivered in an efficient and effective manner using best practices to the Procuring Activity - Composites Engineering Lab Code 476400D Building 5 Room 150J China Lake, CA 93555 5.2The Contractor shall oversee installation and shall assemble the fiber placement machine in the Lab after delivery, as required. 5.3The Government shall be responsible for electrical and air pressure connections to the machine. 5.4The Contractor shall be responsible for developing and implementing checkout procedures to verify the capability of the machine after installation. 5.5The Contractor shall train Lab personnel for 1 week minimum at NAWCWD in the proper use of the machine “ to include safety, programming and hardware operation. The following clauses are applicable to this requirement: 52-212-1 Instruction to Offerors - Commercial Items 52.212-2 Evaluation - Commercial Items 52.212-3 Offeror Representations and Certifications - Commercial Items 52.212-4 Contract Terms and Conditions - Commercial Items 52.212-5 Contract Terms and Conditions Required Implementing Statutes or Executive Orders - Commercial Items In accordance with 52.212-2, the fill-in applicable to this requirement is below: 52.212-2 Evaluation-Commercial Items. As prescribed in 12.301(c), the Contracting Officer may insert a provision substantially as follows: Evaluation-Commercial Items (Jan 1999) (a) The Government will award a contract resulting from this solicitation to the responsible offeror whose offer conforming to the solicitation will be most advantageous to the Government, price and other factors considered. The following factors shall be used to evaluate offers: (i) Technical Capability (ii) Price In accordance with 52.212-5, the following clauses are applicable to this requirement: 52.225-1 Buy American Act - Supplies (February 2009) 52.232-33, Payment by Electronic Funds Transfer-Central This acquisition is for a commercial item and will be conducted using FAR Part 12 and 13.5. Delivery requirements shall be F.O.B Destination China Lake, CA. The required delivery date is 37 weeks from the date of contract award. This combined Synopsis and Solicitation notice is a request for competitive quotations. All responsible sources may submit a written quotation which shall be considered by the Agency. All responses shall be submitted in writing to the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division, Code 210000D, Attn: Benson Kamau, 429 E. Bowen Road Mail Stop 4015, China Lake, CA 93555-6108 no later than 3:00 P.M. on December 1, 2011. All responsible sources must be registered in the Central Contractor Registration (CCR) database at the following website: https://www.bpn.gov/ccr/default.aspx. In accordance with FAR 4.1201, prospective contractors shall complete electronic annual representations and certifications via the Online Representations and Certifications Application (ORCA) at http://orca.bpn.gov in conjunction with required registration in the CCR database.
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