SOURCES SOUGHT
36 -- Water Jet Cutting Machine
- Notice Date
- 5/9/2017
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 333515
— Cutting Tool and Machine Tool Accessory Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Army, Army Contracting Command, MICC, MICC - West Point, 681 Hardee Place, West Point, New York, 10996-1514, United States
- ZIP Code
- 10996-1514
- Solicitation Number
- W911SD17WaterJet
- Archive Date
- 5/30/2017
- Point of Contact
- Robert L. Pizzano, Phone: 8459388176
- E-Mail Address
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robert.l.pizzano.civ@mail.mil
(robert.l.pizzano.civ@mail.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- THIS IS A SOURCES SOUGHT NOT A SOLICITATION. The United States Military Academy, West Point, NY is looking for a small business to supply and install a complete waterjet cutting machine system. The specifications and requirements for this equipment are listed below. If your company can meet this requirement please send your companies capability statement to Bob Pizzano - robert.pizzano@usma.edu no later than Monday May 15, 2017 at 10am est. A site visit will set up at a later date. SPECIFICATIONS AND STATEMENT OF WORK FOR WATER JET CUTTING MACHINE Scope A. The Contractor will furnish and install a complete waterjet cutting machine system to include transportation, unpacking, rigging support, facilities connections to device, filling/installing all operating fluids, cutting materials and cutting heads, full functional testing and basic operational instruction. B. Waterjet system must include all components, materials, fixtures, attachments, software and configurations to provide a fully-functional system. C. Contractor is required to provide customer all facility requirements to include but not restricted to power, water, compressed air, support, clearance, plumbing, ventilation, lighting and safety. D. Upon receiving specifications from contractor, customer is responsible for providing required facility resources (power, water, drainage, compressed air, etc). E. Contractor must provide transformer if power requirements exceed 208V 3Phase. F. The contractor will provide the rigging services to include manpower, transformer if required, off-loading, setting in place and debris disposal. System Description A. Abrasive waterjet cutting system will include a minimum of a waterjet table, cutting system, computer-based control system to include all software (CAM and control), high pressure pump, multiple cutting heads, abrasive material and all hoses, cables, cords and connectors to provide a fully-operational cutting system. B. Specifications 1. Maximum work envelope: There is very limited space to transport, set up and operate a waterjet system in our machine shop. Maximum system envelope is therefore critical. a. Must fit through a door opening of 78.5" x 83.5" b. Maximum operating vertical clearance 105" c. Must be able to fit all components into a 140"x 140" working space to include maintaining a minimum of 48" clear floor space on at least two access sides of the catcher surface and sufficient floor space to safely access the other two sides for maintenance operations. 2. Must be capable of cutting a wide variety of hard materials to include steel, aluminum, titanium, composites, glass, plastic, acrylics, and brass 3. Must be capable of cutting soft materials with a contractor-provided ‘water only' nozzle and controls configuration. Soft materials include but are not limited to soft plastics, foam, Styrofoam and rubber. 4. Provides piercing function that allows for piercing laminate and composite material without delamination or breakage. Ability to pierce holes in either a stationary or dynamic mode. 5. Machine position accuracy (+/- 0.005 inch) over full travel length of X and Y axis, machine repeatability (+/- 0.0025 inch), minimum positioning speed of 400 inches/min, capable of Z-Axis contouring and contouring speed of 200 inches/min. 6. Minimum XY-Axis travel of 4' 1" x 4' 1" (fully cut a 4'x 4' work piece) and Z-Axis of 7" 7. The machine must be made of rigid steel structure, not aluminum, to prevent thermal expansion concerns along with short-term and long-term rigidity concerns. 8. Utilize a ball-screw or other system that insures no slippage or loss of position if cutting head boom is impacted or loss of power occurs. 9. Have at least 3 sides open for operator access to catcher work area without the need to lean over machine rails. 10. Pump capable of 55,000 psi of continuous output at a minimum of 0.8 gallons per minute while utilizing a 0.013" water stream orifice. 11. Pump must have integral water filtration and all special tools for pump maintenance must be provided. 12. Enclosure will be provided around entire pump system and be fan cooled. 13. Full environmental protection provided to protect machine, pump, and control components from abrasive cutting environment. 14. Positive over-pressurization protection will be accomplished through the use of a pressure safety relief valve. 15. To avoid inconsistent abrasive flow rate, abrasive cannot be forced by pressurized air into the cutting head. 16. The water/abrasive mixing tube must have a minimum average life of 120 hours. 17. Control system will provide the operator/programmer with the means of cutting a part to the desired quality level without the use of look-up tables listing discrete cut speed data points and will have the kerf compensation capabilities. 18. Ability to resume cutting anywhere along the part geometry or nest of parts geometry after a cutting interruption. Retracing of the part pattern should not be required to resume cutting. 19. The software will be able to perform a part transformation to rotate and translate the cutting program to match skewed placement of a plate on the machine bed. 20. Control system must provide an easily moveable roll-around operator's station that can reach at least half of the way across the front of the machine. 21. A minimum of three (3) copies of programming software must be included. 22. The machine must have a network interface to allow for control of the machine through a network. 23. Parts should be able to be nested within scrap of larger parts 24. Waterjet and pump must be manufactured by the same manufacturer. 25. Initial supply of spare parts and consumable parts should be provided with the machine. Operation and Maintenance Manuals Physical or electronic equipment operation and maintenance manuals should be provided with each assembly and include instruction leaflets, instruction bulletins and renewal parts lists where applicable. Additional Requirements A. All debris must be removed and disposed of by contractor. B. All work MUST be completed between the dates of 19 June through 31 August 2017.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: United States Military Academy, West Point, New York, 10996, United States
- Zip Code: 10996
- Zip Code: 10996
- Record
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