DOT/RSPA/VOLPE National Transportation Systems Center, 55 Broadway, Kendall Square, Cambridge, MA 02142

20 -- PULPER PROCESSING TECHNOLOGY POC Mark Gentile, Environmental Engineer, (617) 494-2233 WEB: Volpe Center Acquisition Division Home Page, http://www.volpe.dot.gov/procure/index.html. E-MAIL: Environmental Engineer, gentile@volpe2.dot.gov. The Volpe National Transportation System Center (Volpe Center) is seeking manufacture information regarding the potential of the pulper processing technology to treat and dispose of shipboard sold waste(trash) in compliance with MARPOL 73/78 and the Clean Water Act. The Volpe Center is interested in pulper equipment waste handling capabilities, processing rates, installation (weight, space and power) requirements, marine environment compatibility, maintenance requirements, and cost information. The potential application is for use onboard U.S. Coast Guard cutters and includes the high-endurance cutters (WHEC), medium-endurance cutters (WMEC), seagoing buoy tenders (WLB), and icebreakers (WAGB). The crew sizes on these vessels range from 40 personnel on a typical WLB to 182 personnel on a WAGB and are estimated to generate from 100 to 700 total pounds of trash per day. The Volpe Center will be developing a technology assessment report for the U.S. Coast Guard. Submittals should include a manufacture's representative point of contact. The Volpe P.O.C. is Mark Gentile, Environmental Engineering Division (617) 494-2233. Mail address: Volpe Center; 55 Broadway, Kendall Square, Cambridge, MA 02142-1093 Attn: Mark Gentile, Bldg. 1, DTS-33. The solicitation and any document related to this procurement will be available on the Internet, these documents will be available on a WWW server which may be accessed using Web browsers. The WWW address, or URL, of the Volpe Center Acquisition Division home page is: "http://www.volpe.dot.gov/procure/index.html". Offerors desiring to receive electronic notification of the solicitation's posting and availability for downloading may register at the Volpe Center site. Contractors are warned that when they register to receive solicitations, amendments and other notices, the responsibility for providing the Government with an accurate and complete e-mail address lies with the contractor. The Government will make no additional efforts to deliver information when the system indicatesthat transmissions cannot be delivered to the e-mail address provided. Requests for a hardcopy of the solicitation may be mailed or sent via e-mail to gentile@volpe2.dot.gov. Telephone requests will not be honored. This notice is for informational purposes for Minority, Women-Owned and Disadvantaged Business Enterprises: The Department of Transportation (DOT), Office of Small and Business and Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU), has a program to assist minority, women-owned and disadvantaged business enterprises to acquire short-term working capital assistance for transportation-related contracts. Loans are available under the DOT Short Term Lending Program (STLP) at prime interest rates to provide accounts receivable financing. The maximum line of credit is $500,000. For further information and applicable forms concerning the STLP, please call the OSDBU at (800) 532-1169. For information concerning the acquisition, contact the contracting official listed above. (0307)

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