Tobyhanna Army Depot, Bldg 11 Wing D, 11 Hap Arnold Blvd, Tobyhanna, PA 18466-5100

39 -- REPLACEMENT OF CONTROLLER ELECTRONICS OF CONVEYOR REAL TIME CONTROL SYSTEM SOL DAAC71-98-R-0002 DUE 123097 POC Contract Negotiator, Marilyn Watkins, (717) 895-7918; Contracting Officer, Joyce Bednar, (717) 895-6369 Tobyhanna Army Depot intends to negotiate on a competitive basis for award of a firm-fixed price contract for replacement of the controller electronics of the existing Government-owned Conveyor Real Time Control (CRTC) System resident and currently in operation in the Automated Storage and Retrieval System (ASRS) at Tobyhanna Army Depot, Tobyhanna PA 18466. Three obsolete E61000 control devices used to control the conveyor system which services the Mini-Load System will be replaced on-site at Tobyhanna Army Depot with state-of-the-art, industry standard Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs). In addition, the existing Digital Equipment Corportation PDP11/73 computer hardware and CRTC software will also be replaced with state-of-the-art replacements. Offerors are notified that modification of the proprietary Eaton-Kenway (currently HK Systems) manager software to enable the ASRS main computer control system to recognize and interact with the new PLC controllers and the PDP11/73 is prohibited -- Estimated issue/close dates are 03 Dec/30 Dec 97 -- DAAC71-98-R-0002 applies. (0317)

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