SOURCES SOUGHT
80 -- Market Survey for Intumescent Paints/Coatings
- Notice Date
- 10/15/2008
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 332812
— Metal Coating, Engraving (except Jewelry and Silverware), and Allied Services to Manufacturers
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Army, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army Engineer District, New York, US Army Engineer District, New York, CENAN-CT, 26 Federal Plaza, New York, NY 10278-0090
- ZIP Code
- 10278-0090
- Solicitation Number
- W912DS-09-S-0002
- Response Due
- 11/5/2008
- Archive Date
- 1/4/2009
- Point of Contact
- Loretta E. Parris, 917-790-8182<br />
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Sources Sought: THIS IS A NOTICE FOR SOURCES SOUGHT ONLY. THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL OR INVITATION FOR BID. THERE IS NO BID PACKAGE, SOLICITATION, SPECIFICATIONS OR DRAWINGS AVAILABLE WITH THIS ANNOUNCEMENT. IT DOES NOT CONSTITUTE A PROCUREMENT COMMITMENT BY THE U.S. ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS, IMPLIED OR OTHERWISE. NO CONTRACT WILL BE AWARDED FROM THIS SYNOPSIS. RESPONSE IS STRICTLY VOLUNTARY; NO REIMBURSEMENT WILL BE MADE FOR ANY COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH PROVIDING INFORMATION IN RESPONSE TO THIS SYNOPSIS OR ANY FOLLOW-UP INFORMATION REQUESTS. THE GOVERNMENT SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR OR SUFFER ANY CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES FOR ANY IMPROPER IDENTIFIED INFORMATION. Responses are restricted to U.S. firms that are established and registered in the Central Contract Registration (CCR). The U.S Army Corps of Engineers intends to competitively solicit and award future construction projects within the northeast that may include name brand or proprietary components. This notification serves the following purposes: (1) to notify potential Offerors of the Armys intent to solicit a name brand or proprietary components under future construction projects; (2) to publicly identify the Armys needs, and; (3) obtain the sources that may be able to fulfill its needs, as described below. The Army has a need to protect exterior steel structural elements from fire exposure using epoxy in tumescent passive fire protection as follows: The protection material shall be an epoxy intumescent suitable for field application in exterior industrial applications and compatible with an epoxy zinc-rich primer and a urethane finish topcoat. Testing of the epoxy intumescent passive fire protection shall be in accordance with U.L. 1709 Rapid Rise Fire Tests of Protection Materials for Structural Steel except as modified herein. FULL-SCALE TEST METHOD 3. Furnace Control 3.1 Fire Environment. The fire environment within the furnace is to develop a total heat flux of 19,700 1270 Btu/h"ft2 (62.0 4 kW/m2) and an average temperature of 1490 100F (810 56C) within 5 min from the start of the test. A total heat flux range of +2540/-1270 Btu/h"ft2 (+8/-4 kW/m2) shall be acceptable during the first 10 minutes of the test. 5 Test Samples 5.1 The test samples shall be steel plates as follows: 12 inches wide by 3 inches thick (Hp/A = 32.8, 1/m) 12 inches wide by 2inches thick (Hp/A = 45.9, 1/m) 12 inches wide by 1inch thick (Hp/A = 85.3, 1/m) 5 inches wide x 5/8inch thick (Hp/A = 142. 1/m). The protection material shall be applied to the test samples in accordance with acceptable field practice. The length of the protected test samples shall be at least 8 ft (2.44 m). The steel samples are to be supported vertically during application of protection material and during fire exposure. 5.2 The temperature of the test sample is to be measured by no fewer than two thermocouples located at each of four levels (minimum of 8 thermocouples). Typical locations of thermocouples on the test sample are shown below. 6 Performance Criteria 6.1 The transmission of heat through the protection material during the period of fire exposure for which Classification is desired shall not raise the average temperature at any of the four levels of the steel column above 392F (200C) and no thermocouple shall indicate a temperature greater than 482F (250C). SMALL-SCALE TEST METHOD Small scale testing shall not be required for any protection material that has been successfully tested to U.L. 1709 exposure simulations (Appendix A) a, b, d and e and any period of fire exposure. 7 Furnace Control During Fire Test 5.1 The Fire Environment shall be as defined in paragraph 3.1 above. 8 Test Sample 8.1 The test sample is to be subjected to the environmental exposure simulations a, b, d and e described in Appendix A of U.L. 1709 9 Test Method 9.1 The thickness of the protective material shall be such that the time at which the test sample reaches an average temperature of 392F (200C), and no thermocouple indicates an individual temperature greater than 482F (250C), in no less than 30 min and no greater than 70 min after the beginning of the test. 10 Performance Criteria 10.1 The average temperature of the test samples shall not exceed 392F (200C) and no thermocouple shall indicate a temperature greater than 482F (250C)) within a time equal to three quarters of the control period (see 9.1). Epoxy intumescent coating thickness shall be optimized to meet the above requirements and to minimize weight, material costs, and installation costs. It is anticipated that the coating thickness will be less than 13 mm (0.5 in) and probably closer to 6 mm (0.25 in). In order to give further consideration the Offerors must provide specific information to the Army regarding their product or system to allow full evaluation by the government. The specific information required is as follows: a) Provide a description of the passive fire protection system; clearly indicate installation procedures and components, compatible primer and topcoat, and coating thickness. b) Indicate patent rights and/or other protection or rights to the system or device proposed. c) Provide independent tests results indicative of its performance for specific conditions stated above: Other information may be requested after initial response, either from individual respondents or all respondents. This synopsis is the only document that will be published notifying potential offerors of the governments intent. Offerors are advised that information provided to the Government in regard to the products or devices proposed will be considered For Official Use Only (FOUO) and will not be released to the public or other offerors. The government may retain this information for its records indefinitely. Any vendor wishing to propose an epoxy intumescent passive fire protection system must provide a copy of all relevant data and currently available independent test results demonstrating the system satisfies the above requirements by 2:00 P.M. on 5 November 2008 to Loretta Parris, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York District, Contracting Division, 26 Federal Plaza, Room 1843, N.Y., New York 10278. This is a market survey and notification of intent only. This is not a request to respond to a solicitation. This project will be solicited at a future date. Points of contacts: Loretta Parris, Contract Specialist, Telephone: 917-790-8182; FAX. 212-264-3013; Robert Philbrick, Technical Manager, Telephone: 917-790-8295 FAX 212-264-6494.
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- Zip Code: 10278-0090<br />
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