SOURCES SOUGHT
59 -- MANHOLE ARC-FLASH TESTING
- Notice Date
- 3/8/2013
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 237130
— Power and Communication Line and Related Structures Construction
- Contracting Office
- NASA/John F. Kennedy Space Center, Procurement, Kennedy Space Center, FL 32899
- ZIP Code
- 32899
- Solicitation Number
- NNK13GUMKE_ARC-FLASH
- Response Due
- 3/22/2013
- Archive Date
- 3/8/2014
- Point of Contact
- Randall Gumke, Contract Specialist, Phone 321-867-3322, Fax 321-867-1166, Email randall.a.gumke@nasa.gov - Robert J Glanowski, Contract Specialist, Phone 321-867-7345, Fax 321-867-1166, Email robert.glanowski@nasa.gov
- E-Mail Address
-
Randall Gumke
(randall.a.gumke@nasa.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Competitive 8(a)
- Description
- Manhole Arc-Flash Testing Contracting Office Address: NASA/John F. Kennedy Space Center, Procurement, Kennedy Space Center, FL 32899 Description: SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE Manhole Arc-Flash Testing. INTRODUCTION The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) at the John F. Kennedy Space Center (KSC) is seeking capabilities from all categories of Small Businesses for the purpose of determining the appropriate level of competition and/or Small Business subcontracting goals for Manhole Arc-Flash Testing at Kennedy Space Center, Florida 32899. The NAICS code for this effort is 237130, title Power and Communication Line and Related Structures Construction, and the small business size standard is $33.5 million. The estimated price range of this project is between $500,000 and $1,000,000. SCOPE OF WORK The work to be performed under this project consists of providing all services as detailed below for electrical high power testing to determine the arc flash impact on cable splices inside a manhole/ vault to mimic the ground fault occurrences in KSCs 15kV power system. Provide all materials, labor, test lab services, permits, support services, tools, equipment, sub-contracts, transportation, per-diem, and lodging to provide support services at both the Contractors normal base of operation and an extended duration at the test lab location. The goal of this testing is to determine the Arc Flash effect on 15kV cable splices inside a manhole, when subjected to various fault levels ranging from 400A to 10,000A at 8kV phase to neutral, and to identify a condition, where the combination of reduced line to ground fault current level occurring on a splice within a manhole with a 6 cycle interrupting time significantly results in a reduced hazard to personnel who may be working within a manhole or cable vault located at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC). The work includes but is not limited to the following: A. Provide electrical high power testing laboratory services. 1. Provide electrical high power testing laboratory services. Testing shall occur at the laboratory site. NASA has identified two potential laboratories located in North America that can perform the testing: a. KEMA Powertest LLC, Chalfont, PA. b. Kinectrics Toronto, Canada Any other high power testing laboratories capable of providing the testing services required are requested to provide detailed information regarding their capabilities. 2. Test lab shall have the capacity and equipment to perform multiple arc-flash tests over a one to two week testing period duration. Test equipment shall be sized to inject and control current from 400A to 10,000A at 8kV phase to ground on a faulted 15 kV cable splices. The fault duration shall be controlled to 100ms (6 cycles) or a longer duration (up to 200ms) as required. All tests, equipment and test criteria shall conform to IEEE standard C37.20.7-2007 and IEEE standard 1584-2002. 3. Calibrated instrumentation shall record all testing results in two (2) laptop PCs, including. a. High speed video including any lens filters. b. Camera for still photos. c. Seven (7) Calorimeters arranged as described in IEEE 1584 section 8.2. d. Pressure level sensors and meters. e. Sound level sensors and meters. f. Oscillographic recording of voltage, current, and energy. 4. The 15kV cable to be used will be 350 kcmil and #4/0 AWG EPR cables with 1/3 concentric neutral per KSC specification. Splices will be Raychem (HVS-1510S-J 2-tube and HVS-1512S-J-NASA 3-tube) splice kit typically used at KSC. Cable core conductor is to be faulted to the cable shield only using a minimal sized fine strand copper wire that will vaporize on energizing and start the arc.The arc shall not extinguish before the set arc duration due to the reduced voltage applied. The test shall be considered valid in a premature arc extinguishing situation only if the test voltage was set to the maximum and the peak current requirement is met per IEEE Standard C37.20.7. 5. Per IEEE Standard C37.20.7:Test current and voltage for an arcing duration of more than 50ms shall be set to +/-10% of the rated frequency and the frequency of the waveform shall not deviate more than 8% during the test. All voltage and current tolerances shall be set to +5% to -0. 6. For the maximum 10 kA fault current test, the peak current provided by the DC component at the instant of closing shall be 2.6 times the arcing current. For this, X/R ratio of the test source shall not be less than 15 which will give an asymmetrical to symmetrical RMS current ratio of 1.6. Fault initiation switch shall be closed at voltage zero crossing instant to provide the DC offset. For all other tests from 5000A to 400A asymmetry is not required. B. Provide support services prior to, during, and after the high power laboratory tests. 1. Providing safety procedure and test procedure documentation and any necessary worker training. 2. Obtain all necessary Governmental approvals required for travelling to and performing work at the test laboratory site. 3. Fabricate a test set-up for use at the high voltage laboratory. Test set-up is to be completely pre-assembled and demonstrated for the Government at the Contractors location. Equipment will subsequently be disassembled and shipped to the test laboratory for use in the testing. The following major elements are included: a. Concrete manhole including customized access provisions, cable racks, and lighting. b. Dead-front medium-voltage cable sectionalizing cabinet and dead-break connectors. c. Schweitzer Engineer Laboratory (SEL) protective relay and cabinet, including potential transformers and cabinet, current transformers, instrument transformer secondary cables, personal computers and (SEL) software. d. Power supply cable sections and terminations. e. Manikin, arc-flash PPE, and arc-flash blankets. f. Initial supply of faulted cable (splice) sections. g. Misc. test equipment including 5 kV DC megger and micro-ohmmeter. 4. Provide support at the test laboratory site including: a. Provide work crew at the test laboratory site for the entire test duration for preparing splices and supporting the laboratory requirements. Augment crews as required for initial set-up of equipment and removal of equipment. b. Transport and unload all materials and equipment at the site. Provide any crane and fork-lift services required to set the manhole and other equipment. c. Set-up and connect equipment and cables; execute procedures and checklists for the initial set-up and each subsequent test. d. Provide manikin with PPE and arc-flash blankets as required for the various test sequences. e. Remove faulted cables and install additional faulted cables for the various test sequences. Fabricate faulted cables on site based on test results. f. Provide photographs before and after the tests clearly documenting each test. Capture and save SEL relay data for each test. g. Disassemble and remove all materials and equipment from the test laboratory site. Provide any crane and fork-lift services required to remove the manhole and other equipment. Provide required materials back to the Government; reuse, recycle, or dispose of the rest in accordance with all Governmental regulations. 5. Prepare and submit test report with all test results and documentation to the Government. CAPABILITY STATEMENT It is requested that interested business firms having the capabilities necessary to meet or exceed all aspects of the effort described herein, submit to the contracting office a capabilities statement demonstrating ability to perform the services listed above. The capability package shall be no more than ten (10) pages in length and printed in not smaller than 12 point type. The capabilities statement will consist of a: 1 page cover sheet referencing Source Sought Notice NNK13GUMKE_ARC-FLASH, Capabilities Statement Manhole Arc-Flash Testing. And; 4 pages discussing: 1. Company Name, DUNS Number, Address, Description of Principal Business Activity, Primary Point of Contact (E-mail address and phone number). 2. Business size and number of employees. Specifically state whether your firm is a large or small business in NAICS Code 237130. Description of principal business activity; number of employees; and specifically identify if you are a HUBZone small business, a service-disabled veteran owned small business, an economically disadvantaged woman-owned small business, or an 8(a) small business. 3. Financial Capability Provide bonding capacity of your firm and the most current Balance Sheet and Income Statement, and the firms average annual revenue for the past 3 years. 4. Experience Provide the number of years in business and listing of relevant work performed in the previous 5 years. Relevant work for the purposes of this Notice can be defined as, but not limited to, the following: a. The contractor shall be capable of subcontracting with a high power testing laboratory capable of performing the required testing services, and the contractor shall be capable of performing the support services at the testing laboratory site. b. The contractor shall have demonstrated utility and power system construction experience with the procurement, installation, activation, and testing of medium voltage cable systems. c. The contractor shall have demonstrated experience with the installation, set-up, and data retrieval of Schweitzer Engineering Laboratory relays. d. The contractor shall have demonstrated experience with power system electrical hazard analysis and detailed job hazard analysis. Remaining pages can be used to further elaborate on experience or testing lab information. Capability packages must be submitted electronically, via e-mail, to Randall Gumke, NASA Contract Specialist, at the following address:randall.a.gumke@nasa.gov on or before (10 working days) 03/22/13NASA/KSC will review all responses that comply with the submission instructions using the following criteria: breadth, depth and relevancy of experience as it relates to the work described above. NASA does not plan to respond to individual responses and does not intend to post information or questions received to any website or public access location. DISCLAIMER: This Sources Sought Synopsis is for planning purposes only, subject to FAR Clause 52.215-3, entitled Request for Information or Solicitation for Planning Purposes. It does not constitute a Request for Proposal, Invitation for Bid, or Request for Quotation, and it is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government to enter into a contract. Moreover, the Government will not pay for the information submitted in response to this Notice, nor will the Government reimburse an offeror for costs incurred to prepare responses to this Notice. This invitation to submit capability packages is for the purpose of determining the appropriate level of competition and/or small business subcontracting goals for a potential KSC acquisition. No solicitation exists at this time; therefore, do not request a copy of the solicitation. If a solicitation is released it will be synopsized on the Federal Business Opportunities Website, FedBizOpps, (https://www.fbo.gov/ ) and on the NASA Acquisition Internet Services, NAIS, (http://prod.nais.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/nais/index.cgi ). Interested firms are responsible for monitoring these sites for the release of any solicitation or synopsis. Failure to respond to this notice does not exclude any interested party from future consideration for proposals which may be announced or solicited by NASA.
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