USDA, ARS, North Atlantic Area, Contracting Office, 600 East Mermaid Lane, Wyndmoor, PA 19038

66 -- UNIVERSAL PILOT PLANT POC Lisa M. Botella, Point of Contact, (215) 233-6551, fax (215) 233-6558, Eileen LeGates, Contracting Officer The USDA, Agricultural Research Service (ARS), intends to negotiate solely with Waukesha Cherry Burrell in Philadelphia, PA to furnish and deliver (F.O.B. Destination, within Consignee's Premises) to the USDA, ARS, Eastern Regional Research Center, in Wyndmoor, (Philadelphia), PA, for a new Universal Pilot Plant. This procurement also requires installation and start-up, training, two sets of manuals, and a standard commercial warranty. Used equipment is not acceptable. This equipment will be used to simulate full scale production and perform tests on most liquid dairy products such as yogurts, sour cream as well as liquid milk for the production of various cheeses. The research to be performed must be reproducible and compatible with the work conducted at other dairy centers (university and commercial) using the Waukesha Cherry Burrell Universal Pilot Plant. Any small difference in equipment can change the functional properties of the processed products. It is essential that the equipment be dimensionally and functionally identical to that used in the above referenced centers. The Universal Pilot Plant is fully pre-assembled and includes: (1) two vat processing tanks, each with temperature recording/controlling instruments and equipped with cooling and heating zones with both slow speed and high shear agitation; (2) stainless steel, sanitary centrifugal mix transfer pump and Clean-in-Place capability (CIP); (3) stainless steel, two stage homogenizer capable of operating at approximately GPM at 5000 psi; (4) plant and frame heat exchanger (two sections) capable of operating as a cooler for vat pasteurization products and, using both sections and a divert valve, heating and chilling products pasteurized via High Temperature Short Time (HTST); (5) temperature recording/controlling instruments for the HTST system; (6) Stainless steel covered shell and tube heat exchange system for producing adequate hot water for the heating section of the HTST including adequate circulating pumps, regulating valves and temperature controllers; (7) temperature indicating controller for control of product temperature at discharge. This equipment must be compatible with similar equipment used in other dairy centers located in the commercial industry and in Universities. SIC Code is 5084, NAICS is 42183 with a small business size standard of 100 employees. Companies with the demonstrated capability and financial capacity to provide and service such equipment must submit a written substantive statement outlining the Company's and systems' capabilities to the Contracting Officer within 15 days of publication of this notice. This is not a request for proposal. No solicitation is available. Posted 08/16/00 (W-SN486955). (0229)

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