Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division, Philadelphia Purchase Branch, Code 335, 5001 South Broad Street, Philadelphia Business Center, Philadelphia, PA 19112-5083

R -- NEW SPECIFICATIONS FOR SHIPBOARD CLEANING PRODUCT DUE 071200 POC Bruce Lundy, (215)897-7640 WEB: New Specifications for Shipboard Cleaning Products, http://www.SHMLReduction.com. E-MAIL: New Specifications for Shipboard Cleaning Products, lundyb@nswccd.navy.mil. The Carderock Division of the Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC)-Ship Systems Engineering Station (SSES)seeks participation from private industry in standardizing materials used aboard U.S. Navy Ships for general cleaning applications. Presently,Ships carry a large variety of cleaning efficiency and for routine maintenance and shipboard sanitation. These products can vary in both cleaning efficiency and the degree of safety and health precautions necessary for their use. NSWC-SSES plans to revise and/or develop Commercial Item Description (CID) for those cleaning applications required aboard ship. The overall goal of this initiative is to improve the safety and health aspects (i.e., reduce requirements for Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)), and environmental friendliness of the cleaning products that the Navy uses afloat without compromising the mission. A secondary goal is to eliminate those categories of materials, which are not needed aboard ship. The three main focus areas are (1) Identify all required categories of general cleaning compounds, (2) Eliminate superfluous categories by setting standards for and authorizing only these required categories and (3) Evaluate currently available products to establish Safety, environmental and Performance standards on which to base CIDs. NSEC-SSES will issue future announcements to solicit product information(e.g. cleaning efficiency, Material Safety Data Sheets, etc.) from industry on specific categories. That is not the purpose of this request. Also, it is not the purpose of this effort to solicit comment from Industry on dispensing systems or delivery systems for their products. Standardization of dispensing systems will be addressed at a later date. Interested sources shall respond by 12 July 2000, with a general interest statement, background and literature to the above address and point of contact. Posted 06/22/00 (W-SN467569). (0174)

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