SOLICITATION NOTICE
B -- Develop & Validate Firefighter Structural Gloves Sizing System
- Notice Date
- 6/13/2012
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 541990
— All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Acquisition and Assistance Field Branch (Morgantown), 1095 Willowdale Road, Morgantown, West Virginia, 26505
- ZIP Code
- 26505
- Solicitation Number
- 000HCCJC-2012-48560
- Archive Date
- 7/28/2012
- Point of Contact
- Rebecca S Mullenax, Phone: 304-285-5880, Kimberly P Groves, Phone: 304-285-5885
- E-Mail Address
-
rmullenax@cdc.gov, kgroves@cdc.gov
(rmullenax@cdc.gov, kgroves@cdc.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- Title: Develop and Validate Firefighter Structural Gloves Sizing System NOTICE OF INTENT TO ISSUE A PURCHASE ORDER. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Division of Safety Research (DSR), Protective Technology Branch (PTB), 1095 Willowdale Road, Morgantown, WV 26505, hereby announces its intent to issue a purchase order to Total Contact Inc. to develop and validate firefighter structural gloves sizing system. The task is to use the NIOSH firefighter anthropometry database and current literature information to develop and validate a structural gloves sizing system that reflects the modern firefighting population, which includes the following components. 1. Define and identify performance and safety concerns of current firefighter structural gloves configurations and sizing systems. 2. Develop and conduct an experiment to determine tolerance ranges for thermal protection, dexterity, grip, donning/doffing, size accommodation, and daunting ensemble of requirements. Gloves that fit too tight may suppress thermal protection and gloves that fit too loosely are impossible for fine dexterity tasks. 3. Develop an improved structural gloves sizing system, based on results from item #2, NIOSH data of 951 2-D hand scans, NIOSH data of 63 3D hand scans, and other literature information. 4. Produce a set of prototypes of the newly developed gloves and conduct a validation test along with at least one gloves manufacturer for improved performance, safety, and accommodation capacity of the new design. 5. Complete a report documenting the above process and outcomes using the format of typical peer-reviewed journals in the areas of human factors and ergonomics, which would contain instruction, objectives, methods, results, discussion, and conclusion. 6. Provide NIOSH a set of old design and a set of newly developed prototypes of structural gloves to demonstrate the successfulness of this research to practice case. 7. The task should be completed within 12 months from the effective date of the contract. Responsible sources that believe they possess the expertise and capabilities identified above are encouraged to submit to the Contracting Officer within 15 days from the posting date of this notice, their written capabilities statement and pricing information in the format they choose, not to exceed 10 pages. Please forward the capability statement and pricing information to Rebecca Mullenax, Purchasing Agent, Reference 000HCCJC-2012-48560, Centers for Disease Control, NIOSH, ATTN: Rebecca Mullenax, MS: GD, 1095 Willowdale Road, Morgantown, WV 26505. All vendors must be registered in the Central Contractor Registry (CCR) prior to an award of a federal contract. The website is: www.ccr.gov. The Government will review any/all capabilities statements and pricing information submitted and determine if other qualified sources do exist that could provide this requirement. Information received in response to this announcement will be used solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. If no affirmative responses are received within 15 days, in accordance with FAR 13.106-1(b)(1), negotiations will be conducted with Total Contact Inc., 41 N. Main Street, Germantown, Ohio 45327-1349 as the only source and a purchase order will be issued without any additional notices being posted.
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