SPECIAL NOTICE
99 -- This Request for Information is issued on behalf of the Government to create a Qualified Products List (QPL) for individual and collective protection filters.
- Notice Date
- 11/16/2005
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- Contracting Office
- RDECOM Acquisition Center - Edgewood, ATTN: AMSSB-ACC-E, 5183 Blackhawk Road, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD 21010-5424
- ZIP Code
- 21010-5424
- Solicitation Number
- USA-SNOTE-051116-002
- Archive Date
- 1/15/2006
- Description
- REQUEST FOR INFORMAITON: Filter Materials and End Items The Government does not intend to award a contract on the basis of this Request for Information (RFI) or to otherwise pay for the information solicited. This Request for Information is issued on behalf of the Joint Project Management Office for Individual Protection (JPMO-IP), the Joint Project Management Office for Collective Protection (JPMO-CP), and the Engineering Directorates Individual and Collectiv e Protection Business Unit (ICPBU) at the Edgewood Chemical and Biological Center (ECBC). The ICPBU is seeking responsible sources to provide, at no cost to the Government, technical information for market research purposes. Individual responses to this Request for Information that may contain company proprietary information must be marked accordingly. Such information will not be released outside the Government. This Market Research shall not be construed as a request for proposal. The Government does not intend to award a contract from the results of this RFI. The Government shall not be liable for, or suffer any consequential damages for any technical information identified (e.g., limited and/or restricted rights). Interested firms may submit techn ical papers, submit questions and provide company information at the following Internet web address: http://www.ecbc.army.mil/ps/fasq.htm no later than December 17, 2005 at 4:00 pm EST. No telephonic submissions will be honored. The Internet web address will be fully operational no later than 18 November 2005. Description: The ICPBU is the lead organization for a two-year initiative to create a Qualified Products List (QPL) for individual and collective protection filters. This qualification effort is full and open to all candidates, regardless of the origin o f its components. However, prior to being placed on a QPL, candidates must mitigate all risk of interruption in supply. The effort will evaluate the performance characteristics of candidate filter materials and end items configured to the military filter requirements. The qualification will be conducted in three phases, as follows: Phase I includes announcement of the RFI, an Industry Day and coordination among government, industry, and academia; Phase II encompasses all the testing in the form of gates. Phase III will consist of analysis and service review by the Government. Specific information relating to the proposed Industry Day will be provided in a future FedBizOpps.gov announcement. Phase II testing consists of four gates of tests. The regimen of testing performed on a candidate material depends on its maturity. Each gate consists of multiple, physical, reactive, interoperability, and environmental tests. Gate 1 will require sample s of physical (particulate) filtration materials/reactive (chemical) filtration materials/filter housing designs from each supplier for the testing. Items will be tested for all or part of the following; particulate pressure drop, adsorbent pressure drop, particulate filtration of polyalphaolefin and adsorbent filtration of cyanogen chloride (CK), hydrogen cyanide (AC), phosgene (CG) and dimethylmethylphosphonate (DMMP) gas life testing. Successful samples shall have performance equal to or greater than c omponents of filters currently used. Gate 2 testing will consist of breakthrough testing using toxic industrial chemicals, ethylene oxide (EO) at National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) conditions, ammonia at the Joint Service General Purpose Mask (JSGPM) conditions and possibly emerging filtration requirements. Gate 3 will include selected chemical breakthrough testing of end items after environmental exposures. Gate 4 will consist of Operational Testing using assembled filters. Du ring an Operational Test, assembled filters will be tested by a target user for such characteristics as comfort, ease of use, and protection factor testing. Upon successful passing of appropriat e Gates results for qualifying materials or end items will be analyzed and reviewed for inclusion on a QPL. Interested parties are not necessarily required to supply end items or pass all gates to be considered for the QPL. Candidates may qualify their products for the QPL as, but not limited to, particulate media, adsorbent media, or an assembled filter. Addit ional information relating to the testing protocols will be made available to the offerors.
- Web Link
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Website established for this notice.
(http://www.ecbc.army.mil/ps/fasq.htm)
- Record
- SN00932958-W 20051118/051116212138 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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FedBizOpps.gov Link to This Notice
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