NASA, George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, Procurement Office, Marshall Space Flight Center, AL 35812

66 -- BAFFLE-TYPE FILTER MODULE SOL 8-W-5-21-62440 POC Contact Patsy Hoffman, GP26-S/Contract Specialist, 205-544-7040, or Jane Maples, GP25-B/Contracting Officer NASA/MSFC plans to issue a Request for Offer (RFO) for a baffle-type filter module -- NASA/MSFC intends to purchase from Sulzer-Metco, Inc., 17426 Daimler St., Irvine, CA, the following item: Baffle-type filter module, including water-cooled transition pipe and butterfly valve, per the following salient characteristics: (1) System shall be capable of filtering metal and non-metal powder with a particle size of 5 to 500 micron and material density to 0.68 lbs/in to the third power -- (2) Capacity of at least 2500 in to the third power of trapped powder before removal is required -- (3) Must be vacuum compatible and maintain a pressure of 10 to the negative fifth torr (absolute) for any volume upstream of butterfly valve -- (4) Operating pressure range of 760 torr to 10 torr with no loss of filtering efficiency -- (5) Input for dust collection to be located on bottom and exhaust to vacuum pump to be on top-- (6) Equipment shall be compatible with existing low pressure plasma spray chamber and vacuum system manufactured by Sulzer-Metco (formerly Electro-Plasma, Inc) - (7) Vendor shall provide all hardware for installation, documentation for service and maintenance procedures, and recommended parts list -- (8) Vendor shall install system -- Quantity 1 system -- FOB destination NASA/George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, AL 35812 -- Delivery 80 days-- This procurement is being conducted under the NASA/MSFC MidRange Pilot Test Program approved by the Office of Federal Procurement Policy on April 16, 1993 -- Requests for copies of the RFO must be submitted in writing -- Transmission by facsimile to 205-544-9080 or by Internet e-mail to patsy.hoffman@msfc.nasa.gov is acceptable -- Note: This sole-source procurement described is based on system compatability requirements -- Interested firms have 15 days from the publication date of this synopsis to submit their qualifications/capabilities in the critical areas mentioned above, along with a request for a copy of the solicitation -- Such qualifications/capabilities will be used solely for the purpose of determining whether or not to conduct this procurement on a competitive basis -- Responses received after the 15 days or without the required information will be considered nonresponsive to the synopsis and will not be considered -- A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed contract, on a full and open competitive basis, based upon responses to this notice, is solely within the discretion of the Government -- Oral communications are not acceptable in response to this notice -- RFO will be released on or about 15 days after publication in the Commerce Business Daily (CBD) -- Firm date for receipt of offers will be stated in the RFO -- The solicitation and any related documents to this procurement will be available over the Internet -- These documents will be in ASCII format and reside on a World-Wide Web (WWW) server, which may be accessed using client browsers, such as, MOSAIC -- The WWW address, or URL, of the MSFC Procurement home page is: ''http://procure.msfc.nasa.gov''. (0164)

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