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COMMERCE BUSINESS DAILY ISSUE OF OCTOBER 4,1999 PSA#2447Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division, 9500 MacArthur Blvd.,
West Bethesda, MD 20817-5700 99 -- TECHNOLOGIES, PROCEDURES, CONCEPTS, SYSTEMS, ALTERNATIVE
MATERIALS OR DEVICES TO REPLACE, MINIMIZE OR PROCESS POLLUTANTS PRESENT
IN ELEVATOR PIT EFFLUENT DISCHARGE SOL N00167-99-SS-0088 POC Sheila
Riggs, (301)227-5198 In support of the development of Uniform National
Discharge Standards (UNDS), the Carderock Division, Naval Surface
Warfare Center (CDNSWC) seeks sources to provide technologies,
procedures, concepts, systems, alternative materials, or devices to
replace, minimize, process, or otherwise control pollutants present in
elevator pit effluent generated by Armed Forces vessels. This
discharge is the liquid that accumulates in, and is occasionally
discharged from, the sumps of elevator wells on vessels. For elevators
operating in a shaft, a sump is located in the elevator pit to collect
liquids entering the elevator and shaft areas. Deck runoff and elevator
equipment maintenance activities are the primary sources of liquids
entering the sump. Waste accumulated in the elevator pits is removed by
gravity draining, educting overboard using firemain powered eductors,
using a vacuum or sponges to transfer the waste to the ship's bilge
system for treatment as bilgewater, or containerizing it for shore
disposal. If firemain eductors are used to remove the waste accumulated
in elevator pits, the effluent is then a combination of the pit waste
and the firemain water that is used for eduction. Elevator pit effluent
may contain residues of fuels, grease, lubricating oil, hydraulic
fluid, solvents, dirt, paint chips, cadmium, chromium, lead, silver,
zinc, phenols, glycol, and sodium metasilicate. Firemain water used to
operate eductors that drain the elevator pits may contain
bis(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate, copper, iron, nickel, and various forms of
nitrogen. Potential offerors are requested to respond with technical
documentation supporting the technology, procedure, concept, system,
alternative material, or device. The proposed solution must demonstrate
the ability to control, reduce, or eliminate the discharge and some or
all of its constituents listed above. Additional information should
include, but not be limited to, the following: process description,
current commercial or military applications, specific applications in
the marine environment (including customer references/ship class/name),
processing rate capability, normal operative and maximum permissible
pressures, physical size, total dry and wet weights, maintenance
requirements, operational manning requirements, power consumption per
hour of operation, utilities required, secondary waste streams
generated, and equipment performance and testing results. Technical,
industry, or professional society certifications or endorsements should
be provided, if available. A summary of agents or contaminants which
could potentially interfere with the operation and performance of the
technology is also requested. In evaluating the submissions, DoD will
consider the following criteria: (1) the nature of the discharge that
the technology, procedure, concept, system, alternative material, or
device is designed to process, (2) the effectiveness of the technology,
procedure, concept, system, alternative material, or device at
mitigating the environmental effects of that discharge, and (3) the
technology, procedure, concept, system, alternative material, or
device's cost, practicability and effect on operations or operational
capability when installed and used on a vessel. This synopsis is for
information purposes and to identify potential technologies and
offerors. This sources sought announcement does not constitute an RFP
and does not obligate the government in any way to purchase or test any
of the potential solutions offered. Further, it does not commit the
government to pay for any proposal costs in response to the sources
sought announcement. Submit responses for this synopsis to Naval
Surface Warfare Center, Attn: Sheila Riggs (elevator), Code 633, 9500
MacArthur Boulevard, West Bethesda, Maryland 20817. Responses to this
sources sought announcement are due within 45 calendar days of the date
of publication. For additional technical information on elevator pit
effluent discharge, refer to the nature of discharge (NOD) report
available at http://206.5.146.100/n45/doc/unds/unds.html. For more
information on this effort, please consult the Federal Register dated
25 August 1998 or visit the notice on the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency's homepage at
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-WATER/1999/May/Day-10/w11164.htm.
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