91 -- FUEL FILTERS, "SMART" FUEL FILTERS, OR ADDITIVES TO UPGRADE "OUT OF RANGE" INDIGENOUS FUELS OF SUSPICIOUS QUALITY

Notice Date

January 26, 2001

Contracting Office

NAVFACENGCOM Contracts Office, CODE NF20, BLDG. 41, NAVFACENGCOMDET-NFI, 3502 Goodspeed St., Suite 2, Port Hueneme, CA 93043-4306

ZIP Code

93043-4306

Solicitation Number

N47408-01-R-2211

Response Due

February 25, 2001

Point of Contact

John Scott 805.982.5080

E-Mail Address

Click here to contact the Contracting Officer via (scottjc@cbchue.navfac.navy.mil)

Description

PART: U.S. GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENTS THIS IS A SOURCES SOUGHT ANNOUNCEMENT, A MARKET SURVEY FOR WRITTEN INFORMATION ONLY. THIS IS NOT A SOLICITATION ANNOUNCEMENT FOR PROPOSALS- NO CONTRACT WILL BE AWARDED FROM THIS ANNOUNCEMENT. NO REIMBURSEMENT WILL BE MADE OF ANY COSTS TO PROVIDE INFORMATION IN RESPONSE TO THIS ANNOUNCEMENT OR FOR ANY FOLLOW-UP INFORMATION REQUESTS. NO TELEPHONE CALLS WILL BE ACCEPTED REQUESTING A BID PACKAGE OR SOLICITATION. THERE IS NO BID PACKAGE OR SOLICITATION. TO PROTECT THE PROCUREMENT INTEGRITY OF A FUTURE PROCUREMENT, IF ANY, THAT MAY ARISE FROM THIS ANNOUNCEMENT, INFORMATION REGARDING THE TECHNICAL POINT OF CONTACT WILL NOT BE GIVEN AND NO APPOINTMENTS FOR PRESENTATIONS WILL BE MADE. The Naval Facilities Engineering Service Center (NFESC) is seeking sources of technologies suitable for determining the parameters of "out of range" indigenous fuels of suspicious quality. NFESC is seeking sources of technologies suitable for upgrading "out of range" indigenous fuels of suspicious quality using filtration, "Smart Filter" or other methods (A "Smart Filter" is one wherein an inline "real time" fuel quality sensor controls fuel flow through the filter or otherwise alters the filter medium during fuel filtration). The fuel quality will be assessed by visual inspection and chemical analysis coupled with emerging fuel quality sensing technologies including handheld instruments and fuel quality test kits as well as smaller variants of typical fuel quality testing mobile stations. It is envisioned that several properties of diesel fuel (also kerosene's and gasoline's) which may become "out of range" to be used in Military vehicles and aircraft through storage and handling may be "cleaned" using the emerging filtration/additive technologies. These fuel properties include; Appearance, Color, Density, Distillation, Flash Point, Carbon Residue, Cloud point, Pour point, Copper Strip Corrosion, Cetane Index, Kinematic Viscosity, Water and Sediment, Particulate Matter, Accelerated Stability, and Total Sulfur. In addition to the fuel properties cited, emerging fuel contaminant issues such as "Apple Jelly" and Biological contaminants "Bugs" shall be addressed with emerging fuel filtration/additive technologies. Although technology focus is primarily for Kerosene (JetA and JetA-1), reasonable methods to improve all Kerosene, and Diesel fuel quality are of interest. Of particular interest is the ability to additize JETA-1 with the corrosion inhibitor, fuel-system icing inhibitor, and a static dissipator required by MIL-DTL-83133E for JETA-1/JP-8. All information shall be forwarded at no cost to the Government by 25 February 2001. This notice is not a request for proposals and no contract will be awarded by this office solely on the basis of the responses hereto, or any follow-up information subsequently solicited. .Interested sources must submit their qualifications/capabilities in writing to NAVAL FACILITIES ENGINEERING COMMAND CONTRACTS OFFICE, CODE NF20 BLDG. 41, NAVFACENGCOMDET-NFI, 3502 GOODSPEED STREET, SUITE 2, PORT HUENEME, CA 93043-4306 ATTN: J. SCOTT. Responses may also be sent by e-mail to scottjc@cbchue.navfac.navy.mil. Text sent by e-mail must be in Microsoft Word format. DEADLINE for receiving responses is February 25 2001. Responses received after the deadline or without the required information shall be considered unacceptable and will not be considered. As this is a Sources Sought announcement, no evaluation letters will be issued to the participants.

Record

Loren Data Corp. 20010130/91SOL002.HTM (W-026 SN50B9Q7)