Defense Special Weapons Agency, 6801 Telegraph Rd., Alexandria, VA, 22310-3398

A -- HIGH TEMPERATURE INCENDIARY (HTI) SMALL SCALE TESTING POC Tanya Stasiuk, Negotiator, (703) 325-5029, Scott G. Morton, Contracting Officer, (703) 325-1200. This procurement is to be made in accordance with DFARS Subpart 235.70, Research and Development Streamlined Contracting Procedures. Offerors are advised that a conventional solicitation will NOT be issued but that the solicitation will appear in a subsequent edition of the Commerce Business Daily (CBD). The Defense Special Weapons Agency (DSWA) is seeking assistance in an effort to screen High Temperature Incendiary (HTI) materials, through small scale tests, for the best lethality performance of equipment or chem-bio agents; to generate and measure physical and chemical environments through combustion of HTI materials in scaled chambers; and to utilize engineering codes to support test planning and data analyses. To meet this objective, the contractor must perform small scale test preparation, including developing mechanical designs of the experimental apparatus; conduct shakedown live fire tests with some standard HTI materials to assess the response of a facility and its contents; perform HTI material screening, which involves thermochemical calculations, preliminary tests to assess effects of thermal and/or corrosive environments on chemical or biological agents and their equipment, low pressure HTI burn experiments, and observation of lethality of equipment/chemical agents/biological agents by HTI generated thermal and corrosive environments; and develop and execute a planned test program utilizing the candidate HTI mterials in the small scale experimental apparatus. The contractor must also utilize available engineering codes to support test planning and data analysis. All contractor personnel will require access to a DoD security clearance of SECRET. Offerors must provide address information to the contract negotiator in order to be included on the mailing list in case any supplemental package and/or amendments are issued to the solicitation which will appear in a subsequesnt edition of the CBD. Address information must be in writing. Faxes are acceptable to the attention of Tanya Stasiuk/AMB at fax number (703) 325-9295. Information on DSWA solicitations, already released, can be obtained by calling the DSWA Hotline at (703) 325-1173. As of 31 May 96, Acquisition Management has added ''Procurement Opportunities'' to the DSWA Home Page available on the World Wide Web. Information will include the synopsis and more. Please check us out at w.w.w.dswa.mil. Reference Synopsis No. 96-82 (0219)

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