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99 -- PRESSURE VESSEL FOR HUMAN OCCUPANCY AND ACCUMULATORS SOL N47408-97-R-1874 DUE 012898 POC Contract Specialist Linda B. Dearing (202)433-5311/Fax (202)433-5244; Contracting Officer Rita D. Palmore This project will be UNRESTRICTED. This is a procurement of two pressure vessel chambers for human occupancy and two accumulators for delivery within 380 days after contract award. The procurement includes design, fabrication, shipment, installation, and testing of the pressure vessels and accumulators at the Naval Medical Center, Portsmouth, Virginia. The pressure vessels include a 20 foot inside diameter sphere and a 14 foot inside diameter upright cylinder with 2:1 ellipsoidal heads. The accumulators are 8 feet 6 inches inside diameter horizontal cylinders with 2:1 ellipsoidal heads. The pressure vessel chambers shall have interconnecting passageways; pass-through locks; internal and external passageways and doors; and viewports, penetrators, attachments, and supports. This procurement includes an option to procure future passageway sections with flanges equipped with flange cover plates to be exercised within 15 days after contract award. This procurement also includes an option to deliver the baseitems, two pressure vessel chambers for human occupancy and two accumulators, described above, in 285 days after contract award to be exercised within 15 days after contract award. The contractor shall provide all labor and materials for the work herein. This contract shall call for the fabrication and modification of life sensitive systems. Failure to adhere to the highest standards of metallurgy, welding, and workmanship will create severe hazards to the personnel working on or near these systems when they are pressurized. Failure to meet these requirements will be cause for termination for default and, in any event, will be cause for Government rejection of components. The solicitation will be a Request for Proposals, whereby offerors will be required to submit a technical proposal, a cost proposal, and past performance information. Award shall be made to the responsible offeror whose proposals, conforming to the solicitation, represent the best value to the Government in terms of price, past performance,and other non-price factors. The contract will be awarded with fixed price provisions. The tentative date for award is April 1998. Requests for the solicitation may be mailed to Naval Facilities Engineering Command Contracts Office, Washington Navy Yard (WNY), Bldg 218, 901 M Street, SE, Washington, DC 20374-5063 or sent via facsimile by using (202) 433-5244. Contractors within the local area are encouraged to pre-arrange, by contacting the Contract Specialist noted above, to pick up a copy of the solicitation at Bldg 218 (third floor) of the WNY between the hours of 0730 and 1500, Monday-Friday. There will be no charge for these documents, however, there will only be one set issued per contractor. Proposals should be submitted to the Naval Facilities Engineering Command Contracts Office (NAVFACCO), Bldg 218, 901 M Street, SE, WNY, Washington, DC 20374-5063. (0343)

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