SOURCES SOUGHT
X -- Training & Pilot Processing Laboratory Facility
- Notice Date
- 4/23/2013
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 531120
— Lessors of Nonresidential Buildings (except Miniwarehouses)
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, Food and Drug Administration, Office of Acquisitions and Grants Services, 5630 Fishers Lane, Room 2129, Rockville, Maryland, 20857-0001
- ZIP Code
- 20857-0001
- Solicitation Number
- 1113184
- Archive Date
- 6/28/2013
- Point of Contact
- Anthony S. Wimbush, Phone: 3018270305
- E-Mail Address
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anthony.wimbush@fda.hhs.gov
(anthony.wimbush@fda.hhs.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- This is not a solicitation announcement. This is a sources sought synopsis only. The purpose of this sources sought synopsis is to gain knowledge of potential qualified small business sources and their size classifications (i.e., HUBZone 8(a), 8(a), HUBZone, Service-Disabled Veteran-owned, Veteran-Owned, and Small Disadvantaged Business) relative to the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code. Responses to this sources sought synopsis will be used by the Government to make appropriate determinations about potential sources. Only small business sources shall respond to this sources sought synopsis. Project Title: Training and Pilot Processing Laboratory Facility Services for FDA's FD152 Food Processing and Technology Course Project Description: Background: The Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Division of Human Resource Development (DHRD) has a Food Processing & Technology Course (FD 152), which is the third in a three-part series of courses for the manufactured food curriculum for training Federal, State, local and tribal investigators/inspectors to conduct these regulatory inspections. The FD152 Food Processing and Technology course currently being delivered is 4-1/2 days in length, is standardized, and provides an overview of the basic principles in food processing, technology, and awareness of associated equipment used to ensure the safety of manufactured foods. Coursework includes detailed studies of food microbiology, food characteristics and properties, food chemistry, thermal processing and heat transfer, fluid flow, emerging technologies, preservation technologies, fillers and packaging technology. Extensive "hands-on" experience with processing equipment is provided in a pilot laboratory setting. The skills and knowledge obtained by investigators through this course will result in an increased protection of the public health. The purpose of this project is to obtain the services of up to three (3) contractors to provide a training facility equipped with A/V support (i.e., projector, screen, microphone, etc.) and a pilot processing laboratory facility equipped with a variety of food equipment used in food manufacturing/processing/packaging (i.e., retorts, heat exchange systems, thermal processors, evaporators, dryers and evaporators, freezing equipment, extruders, homogenizers, pumps, and packaging equipment). Course participants and FDA instructors will be traveling in from around the country, and the cost, availability and feasibility of air travel, ground transportation and lodging to attend the course are relevant factors for consideration. The number of courses offered per year will be based on training needs as dictated by DHRD, and upon the availability of funding, in the range of 4 to 8 courses per year per contractor (depending on how many awards are made). Annually, a course "content advisory group" (CAG) meeting will be convened to assess the need for course updates based on course evaluations, other relevant factors and the feasibility of blending course content. The CAG meeting members will consist of the subject matter experts (SME) developing and delivering these courses and may include additional SME identified by FDA/DHRD. Your responses to the questions provided below will assist the Government in selecting the appropriate acquisition method. Page limit: Maximum 15 pages (font size Times New Roman 11 or larger). A copy of the company capability statement will also be accepted (but not in place of the responses to the below questions). The anticipated period of performance is 12 months, plus four 12-month option periods. After review of the responses received, a pre-solicitation synopsis and formal solicitation may be published in the Federal Business Opportunities. Responses to this notice must include company name, address, point of contact, size of business pursuant to the NAICS code, and must respond to the following questions: 1. Is your business a small business under the NAICS code? 2. Does your firm qualify as a small disadvantaged business? 3. If disadvantaged, specify if your firm is certified under Section 8(a) of the Small Business Act? 4. Are you considered a certified HUBZone firm? 5. Are you considered woman-owned or operated business? 6. Are you a certified Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned or Veteran-Owned business? 7. Describe your proven capability to provide qualified personnel (experience in a food manufacturing setting) for instructional services in the design, development and delivery of effective instruction to adult learners covering equipment in each of the following food manufacturing areas: • Thermal processing • Cooking • Microwave • Infrared • Ohmic Heating • Non-Thermal processing • Irradiation • High Pressure Processing • Ultraviolet Light • Ultrasound • Pulsed Electric Field • Water Activity Manipulation • Drying • Freeze Drying • Freezing • Hot Holding • Refrigeration • Modified & Controlled Atmosphere • Chemical Manipulation • Ph • Filtration • Product Manipulation Equipment • Support Equipment • Post Processing Equipment 8. Describe your proven capability to obtain and provide for hands-on demonstrations to trainees food manufacturing equipment at least capable of manufacturing pilot scale batches (generally, one-tenth of a full production scale batch) and food packaging containers, to include: • Steam injection unit (cutaway example for demonstration) • Steam infusion system • Plate Heat Exchanger (De-Laval or similar) for heating and cooling (minimum 2 - 3 sections) o Extra plates showing different surface flow configurations • Various Tubular Heat Exchangers (Stork, Cherry Burrell, Contherm or similar) o Triple Tube Design (cutaway example for demonstration) o Double Tube Design (cutaway example for demonstration) o Multi-tube Design • Scraped Surface Heat Exchanger (cutaway example for demonstration) o Extra blades - carbon, steel, and plastic for hands-on demonstration • Continuous Pasteurizer • Batch Pasteurizer • Boiler o Fire Tube o Water tube • Various pumps (cutaway examples for demonstration) o Centrifugal Pump o Lobe-rotor pump o Progressive/Eccentric-screw Pump o Piston Pump o High-Pressure Pump (Homogenizer- Cherry-Burrell, APV or similar) o Peristaltic Pump (Hose Pump) o Aseptic Pump (Fristam or equivalent) o Magnetic Flow Meter • Shaft Seal of a pump • Various valves (cutaway examples for demonstration) o Seat valve o Mixproof valve o Flow Diversion valve o Butterfly valve o Plug valve o Check valve o Gate valve o Globe valve o Ball valve o Diaphragm valve o Control valve o Petcock valve • Various retorts o Vertical Still Steam Retort o Horizontal Still Steam Retort o Continuous Agitating Retort (FMC Steritort) • Various filter systems o Plate disc or Multi-disc o Spiral o Hollow fiber o Ceramic o Cartridge o Plate and frame or filter press • Various filter media o Cast membrane o Sintered metal o Fibrous structures o Ceramic membrane o Hollow fiber membrane • Various filtration types o Reverse Osmosis Unit o Nano Filtration Unit o Ultra Filtration Unit o Microfiltration Unit o Carbon and gravel beds • Various evaporators (with the ability to view various parts inside of equipment) o Batch Pan o Rising film (forced recirculation) o Circulation o Falling film o Plate evaporator • Various preheaters o spiral-tube preheater o straight-tube preheater (shell & tube) (cutaway example for demonstration) o duplex preheating system • Various dryers (with the ability to view various parts inside of equipment) o Roller or drum drying o Box spray dryer o Cyclone spray dryer (Niro Atomizer or similar) o Fluid Bed Dryer • Extruder o Single Screw o Twin Screw • Freeze Dryer • Various freezers o Spiral freezer o Immersion freezer o Tunnel freezer o Chill - Freeze Fluidized bed • Various Fillers o Siphon o Vacuum o Pressure o Counter Pressure o Piston • Check Valve Piston • Rotary Valve Piston o Servo Driven Pump o Powder/ non-liquid • Net Weight • Auger • Cup/Volumetric/Gravimetric (pocket fillers) o Solbern Tumbler Filler o Aseptic Filler with capability to demonstrating filling of Tetra-Pak, Combibloc, Scholle or Inpaca containers o Thermoform cup filling (e.g. Hassia) o Retort pouch filler/sealer • Tetra-Pak, Combibloc, Hassia, retort pouch sealing equipment that seals by: o Induction o Impulse o Ultrasonic o Heat bar • Microwave Sterilizer • UV Sterilizer • Modified atmosphere packaging system • Various types of kettles o Steam Kettle o Agitated Kettle • Various types of industrial ovens • Single Head Double Seamer • Bottle capper system • Water activity meter • pH meter • Viscosity meter • Refractometer • Electro conductivity Test Equipment • Recording Temperature Devices and Thermocouples • Resistance Temperature Detectors/Devices (RTDs) and Dataloggers • Dye Test Equipment • Under Water Bubble Test Equipment • Double seam tear down equipment • Transparent tube that can demonstrate laminar flow of product through the tube • Transparent tube that can demonstrate turbulent flow of product through the tube • Examples of glass containers o Lug or twist cap glass container o Press-on Twist-off (PT) cap glass container o Continuous Thread Closure (CTC) glass container • Examples of glass container defects o Glass container with crushed lug o Closed glass container with product over the edge of finish "wicking" o Glass container with titled or cocked cap o Glass container with pinhole in cap • Examples of flexible containers o 3-side seal flexible pouch o 4-side seal flexible pouch o Semi-rigid Fusion sealed bowl or tray o Semi-rigid container with double seam metal ends o Semi-rigid paperboard carton o Semi-rigid erect fill paper carton • Examples of flexible container defects o Pouch with fracture o Pouch with leaker o Swollen pouch o Pouch with channel leaker o Pouch with contaminated seal o Pouch with seal wrinkle o Pouch with blister in seal area o Pouch with convolution in seal area o Pouch with waffling o Semi-rigid container with cut o Semi-rigid container with incomplete seal o Semi-rigid container with channel leaker o Semi-rigid container with contaminated seal o Semi-rigid container with abrasion o Semi-rigid container with uneven impression in seal area o Crushed semi-rigid container o Semi-rigid container with body abrasion o Semi-rigid container with foreign matter inclusion (imbedded) o Semi-rigid paperboard carton with corner leaker o Semi-rigid paperboard carton with pull tab leaker o Crushed semi-rigid paperboard carton o Semi-rigid paperboard carton with loose tab • Examples of types of metal containers o 2-piece Drawn & Iron (tin free steel bodies & lids) o 3-piece welded (tin free or tin coated steel) o 3 piece soldered (tin coated steel; tin solder) • Examples of types of metal container defects o Buckle o Sweller • Flipper • Springer • Soft Swell • Hard Swell o False seam o Knocked down end curl o Veer (Spur) o Cut over or Fractured seam o Cable Cut (Cut seam) o Deadhead (Skidder) o Incomplete double seam o Severe dent o Rusted can 9. Describe your proven capability to provide a classroom training facility capable of accommodating a classroom style seating to support up to 50 persons at a minimum of 6 ft tables and no more than 2 persons per table in a minimum 1,200 sq. ft. room equipped with the following: • Easel/Whiteboard • Podium • Projector (LCD preferred) • Document viewer/projector • Projector Screen(s) sized to be viewed from the rear of the room • Instructor laptop connection with internet access • Wireless lavaliere microphone or wireless lecture microphone • Wireless remote with laser pointer • DVD player capable of being connected to AV system • Audio sound system • Ability to turn lights on/off from inside the room • Room temperature control capability • Comfortable seating chairs designed for long periods of sitting • Classroom with unobstructed views • Capability of receiving and storing advance shipment of training materials 10. Describe your proven capability to provide access and use of a pilot processing laboratory facility located within or adjacent to the building used for classroom training. The current course design requires students to move between training facility and the pilot processing laboratory, frequently during a standard training day. The training facility and the pilot processing laboratory must meet Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Accessibility Guidelines for Buildings and Facilities (ADAAG). 11. Describe your proven capability to provide qualified logistical support personnel for: food manufacturing equipment and packaging container set-up, relocation, and operation; facilitating hands-on demonstrations and practical exercises of manufacturing equipment and packaging containers; and A/V equipment set-up, relocation, and operation during classroom presentations. This is not a request for proposals and in no way obligates the Government to award any contract. Responses to this notice shall be mailed to: Attn: Anthony Wimbush U.S. Food and Drug Administration Office of Acquisitions and Grant Services 5630 Fishers Lane, Room 2082 Rockville, MD 20857 Electronic mail responses will be accepted at: Anthony.Wimbush@fda.hhs.gov. Telephone responses will not be accepted. Responses must be received in writing, by no later than April 30, 2013, 4:30 PM, Eastern Standard Time. No solicitation is currently available. Responses to this sources sought synopsis will not be considered adequate responses to the solicitation, a request to be added to a prospective offerors list, or a request to receive a copy of the solicitation. Reference No. 1113184.
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