Fleet and Industrial Supply Center, San Diego, Bid Officer, 937 N. Harbor Drive, San Diego, CA 92132-0212

20 -- SHIP AND MARINE EQUIPMENT SOL N00244-96-R-3054 DUE 101896 POC Fax Solicitation Request to Bid Officer (619) 532-2575, or call (619) 532-2692; Contract Specialist JAMES L. BROWLEY 619)532-3988;Contracting Officer, TEDDY M. SANTOS Fleet and Industrial supply Center, San Diego, California intends to award, on a sole-source basis, a firm fixed price contract to Eddy Pump Corporation, Santee California to acquire clog resistant sewage transfer pumps. The proposed contract will provide 47 clog resistant sewage transfer pumps designed todischarge salt water, sewage and other waste water from shipboard collecting, holding and transfer tanks. Configuration of the pump shall incorporate a rotor which creates a vortex action inside a hydrodynamically designed pump volute. Therotor/volute design shall be such that a negative pressure is maintained within the volute in the area of the pump seal. The pump seal arrangement shall use pressurized air as a sealing medium to insure sewage does not pass through the pump seal. Thepump assembly bed plate shall be configured to fit on existing shipboard foundations. Eddy pumps are uniquely configured to meet the requirement and are the only known source of pumps utilizing ''Vortex'' technology. Point of delivery is San Diego, CA.Request for solicitation should be in writing. See notes (22). (0261)

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