US Army ARDEC, AMSTA-AR-PC, Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey 07806-5000

A -- DEVELOPMENT AND PROCESSING OF ENERGETIC MATERIALS SOL DAAE30-98-R-0305 DUE 033098 POC Sandra M. Chisholm, Contracting Officer, 973-724-4109 WEB: US ARMY TACOM-ARDEC Procurement Network, http://procnet.pica.army.mil/procacts.htm. E-MAIL: Sandy Chisholm, schishol@pica.army.mil. A -- The U.S. Army TACOM-ARDEC intends to award a Time and Material Task Order contract for Development and Processing of Energetic Materials.The RFP Issue date is Feb 27, 1998, Closing Mar 30, 1998. The text of the original synopsis is as follows: Contractor support will be solicited to produce quantities of energetic material compositions using the extrusion and slurry emulsion processes currently in various stages of development. This effort is part of the Army's Energetic Material Development Program, and through the course of the program promising formulations will be scaled up from bench scale to pilot plant scale batch sizes for the purpose of conducting sensitivity evaluations, energetic material qualifications, energetic material loading, Insensitive Munition assessments and performance testing in generic and actual munition hardware. Noncommercially available solvents, explosives, binders and/or energetic plasticizers will be furnished by the Government. Most of the materials that will bedeveloped and processed under this contract will fall under the classification guide for LOVA -- Low Vulnerability Propellant; the contractor must have a SECRET clearance prior to contract award and be able to handle classified information not releasable to non-US entities. Solicitation DAAE30-98-R-0305 (unclassified) will be issued electronically on or about Jan 9, 1998. NO HARDCOPIES will be issued. Therefore, no solicitation mail list will be generated. For questions or clarification, e-mail or FAX responses to this announcement will be accepted. Respond to the above named individual at U.S. Army TACOM- ARDEC, AMSTA-AR-PC-C, Bldg. 10, Picatinny Arsenal, NJ 07806-5000. (FAX number 973-724-4524) This solicitation, in MS-Word 6.0 format, will be available for downloading from the World Wide Web Electronic Commerce Home Page, available at the following address: "http//procnet.pica.army.mil". Reference Note 26. (0062)

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