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COMMERCE BUSINESS DAILY ISSUE OF APRIL 21,1999 PSA#2329US Army ARDEC, AMSTA-AR-PC, Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey 07806-5000 99 -- PAPER STUDY ON PRODUCTION BASE READINESS SUPPORT SOL
DAAE30-99-Q-1059 DUE 050799 POC MAGDA SZYMANSKI, CONTRACT SPECIALIST,
(973) 724-3066 WEB: US ARMY TACOM-ARDEC Procurement Network,
http://procnet.pica.army.mil/cbd/RFP/99Q1059/99Q1059.htm. E-MAIL: Magda
M. Szymanski, mszyman@pica.army.mil. This is a combined
synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with
the format in Subpart 12.6, as supplemented with additional
information included in this notice. This solicitation is issued as a
Request for Quotation (RFQ) number DAAE30-99-Q-1059. This solicitation
document, and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect
through Federal Acquisition Circular 90-38. The Army is interested in
working with industry in adapting commercial technologies and
capacities to the manufacture of energetics for normal yearly
production buys and replenishment production buys. A major objective of
this effort is to identify new methods in which the Army can work with
the private sector to make maximum use of non- government production
capacity to meet production and replenishment needs. The work proposed
under this scope is a paper study. REQUIREMENTS: Interested
contractors shall submit proposals, based on their short and long term
forecasts in technologies and production capacities, to conceptualize
and perform business evaluations for possible joint efforts with the
government in one or more of the following areas: new energetic
processing technology that can be supported in the commercial base, new
energetics that can be produced in existing commercial facilities,
commercial capacity that can be applied to DoD replenishment and
production needs, existing commercial production capacity that can be
used or modified to support both commercial and DoD items as well as
commercial items, and manufacturing processes that can be used in
commercial capacity to supplement replenishment. SELECTION CRITERIA:
Two or more proposals will be selected from the following three product
(existing/future) areas: (Note: * denotes anticipated annual production
volume to be about 100,000 to 200,000 lb. per year, ** denotes
anticipated annual production volume to be about 1,000,000 lb. per
year, and *** denotes anticipated annual production volume to be about
4,000,000 lb. per year; # denotes replenishment volume to be about
1,000,000 to 2,000,000 lb., ## denotes replenishment volume to be about
3,000,000 to 5,000,000 lb., ### denotes replenishment volume to be
about 10,000,000 to 15,000,000 lb., #### denotes replenishment volume
to be about 20,000,000 to 32,000,000 lb., and ##### denotes
replenishment volume to be about 74,000,000 lb; no * or no # denotes
anticipated annual production volume to be significantly less than
100,000 lb. per year and/or replenishment volume to be significantly
less than 1,000,000 lb. Quantities are provided for approximation and
guidance only. Additional data is available upon request.) 1.
Propellants: Benite, Grain Igniters for TOW-2 motor M114, Clean Burning
Igniter, M2 DB, M5 DB, M9 DB, DB WC 140, DB WC 844**##, DB WC 844T, DB
WC 846*#, DB WC 855*, DB WC 866*, DB WC 867*#, DB WC 872*, DB WC 750,
Aft Grain F/155mm M549, Fwd Grain F/155mm M549, RAD/ HC/CR F/25mm
M791, SB IMR 4475, SB IMR 4895, SB IMR 5010, SB M1 MP##, SB M1 SP#, SB
M10, SB M14***###, SB M6####, SM M6+2, SB NACO (Navy) #, Solvent DB
Rkt M7, Solvent DB Rkt M7 (MOD), Solvent SB/DB XM45 F/120mm Mortar,
Solventless DB JA-2#, Solventless DB M37#, Solventless DB N14
Solventless DB NOISH AA2**###, Solventless DB NOISH AA6, Solventless DB
Rkt N5#, Solventless DB XM44 F/120mm Mortar, Spheroidal M38, Stick TB
M31A1E1###, TB M30A1, WC 859, WC 860#, WC 890**##, WC/HC/CR F/25mm PGU,
Rocket Grain MK0*#. New propellant such as PAP-7993 and affordable
($10- $15 per pound) Thermo Plastic Elastomer propellants, and high
performance propellants. The primary thrusts are small arms, medium
caliber cannon, tank, and artillery propelants. Rocket propellants are
not of any interest to this program. 2. Explosives: Composition A-3,
Composition A-4, Composition A-5###, Composition B (Flaked) ####,
Composition C-4**####, Composition CH-6, Composition D-2#, CXM-6,
CXM-7*####, Cyclotol 70/30, HBX-1 Explosive, HMX, LX-14#, Octol 70/30#,
Octol 75/25, PBX 9407, PBX 0280##, PBX TY I, PBXN-10, PBXN-107,
PBXN-5#, PBXN-9 Type II, RDX Bulk, Trinitrotoluene (TNT) **#####,
Acetal/Formal, Black Pwd, Potassium Nitrate, Lead Azide (Dextrinated),
Lead Azide (RD1333), Lead Azide (Special Purpose), Tetryl. There are
several explosives and explosisve compositions under development. These
include but are not limited to CL-20 and PAX-2A. 3. Pyrotechnics: Flare
Aircraft IR CTMS M206**##, Flare Aircraft IR MJU-32/B*#, Flare IR
Aircraft MJU-10/B*#, Flare IR ALA-17/B, Flare IR CTMS MJU-7A/B**##,
MJU-27 IR Decoy Device, Signal Flare MAR MK 132-0 ORG, Signal SMK &
ILLUM MAR MK 124-0 ORG, Signal SMK & ILLUM MAR MK99-3 YEL, Signal SMK
MAR MK 131-0 RED, Smoke Pot Floating HC M4A2. Additional flare
compositions of interest include those used in mortar and artillery
projectiles, tracer and delay compositions, electric match igniters,
and covert flare compositions. The Army also has particular interest in
the following technologies: Totally Integrated Munitions Enterprise
(TIME), Model Bassed Control Systems (MBCSs), and Twin Screw
manufacturing of energetics. The objective of TIME is to establish
manufacturing methodology to enable cost effective, agile, rapidly
reconfigurable, readily transferable, and distributed control
technologies for munitions manufacture. This includes establishing
integrated seamless interaction among discrete and distributed design,
production, and administration units over a high speed communication
network, with a backbone environment and operating system for real time
process data acquisition and model based remote control. TIME is
extendible to energetics, assemblies, electronics, and composites. MBCS
methodology uses mathematical models developed from first principle
conservation equations for mass, momentum, and energy and constitutive
equations of fully characterized raw, in-process, and final materials.
Unlike other control methodologies proposed, such as smart and
neuro-network systems which are based only on past experiences, the
model is predictive and uses real time data to establish ral time
feedback/feed forward loops to readily addressnew situations without a
prolonged and costly learning period. The model leads to optimization
of the process, the operating conditions, and the product. MBCS for
energetics is readily adaptable to TIME manufacturing systems. For Twin
Screw manufacturing, there has been a worldwide trend toward using Twin
Screw processors for the manufacture of energetics. Twin Screw
technology has been applied to compounding and extruding energetics
and, in some cases, compounding and extruding have been combined into
one operation. The benefits include lower labor costs, less solvent
loss to the environment, better product uniformity, and safety. As a
part of the proposal, each company shall provide the following: (1)
description of business opportunity, (2) its long-range commercial plan
and plans to incorporate new technologies, (3) an explanation of how
Army production capacity needs can be adapted to its long range goals,
(4) an explanation of the benefit to DoD, (5) the percentage of the
production line used for commercial work, and (6) a description of how
the contraction plans to implement the work proposed. Each offeror may
submit one or more proposals for one or more of the product areas
listed above. However, only one proposal from each offeror will be
accepted for each of the three product areas. A proposal may cover
multiple product areas. The Government will award a purchase order
resulting from this solicitation to the offeror whose offer conforms to
this solicitation, is the most advantageous to the Government, and the
acceptable, responsible offer does not exceed $40,000. Any resulting
purchase order will contain appropriate FAR and DOD FAR Supplement
clauses (and any implementations thereof) for commercial items. Two (2)
complete copies of each proposal shall be sent to Mrs. Magda Szymanski,
AMSTA-AR- PC-H, Building 9, TACOM-ARDEC, Picatinny Arsenal, NJ
07806-5000 by 4:00pm ET, May 7, 1999. Telephone and/or written requests
are not necessary, as this announcement constitutes the technical
requirement in full text. Additional information on the above listed
technologies will be provided to the interested offerer upon request.
All proposals should be received by the date and time stated above.
Posted 04/17/99 (D-SN321476). (0107) Loren Data Corp. http://www.ld.com (SYN# 0328 19990421\99-0006.SOL)
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