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COMMERCE BUSINESS DAILY ISSUE OF MAY 18,1998 PSA#2097US Army ARDEC, AMSTA-AR-PC, Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey 07806-5000 B -- GAS METAL ARC WELDING (GMAW) ROBOTIC WELDING SYSTEM SOL
DAAE30-98-R-0112 DUE 060598 POC Christine Bernosky, Contract Specialist
(973) 724-2754 WEB: US ARMY TACOM-ARDEC Procurement Network,
http://procnet.pica.army.mil/procacts.htm. E-MAIL: Christine Bernosky,
cbernos@pica.army.mil. The U.S. Army Tank-automotive and Armaments
Command, Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center
(TACOM-ARDEC) seeks an industrial partner to share in the cost of
installing a fully automated Gas Metal Arc Welding (GMAW) robotic
welding system at TACOM-ARDEC's Welding Laboratory, Picatinny Arsenal,
New Jersey. The GMAW robotic welding system should represent a mature
off-the-shelf technology with minimal or no development effort
required. General system requirements shall include off-line planning
capability, fully coordinated robot/positioner workcell, and
sensor/adaptive control technology. The off-line planner shall include
as a minimum the following features: 3-D solid modeling capability,
weld path planning using CAD drawings, weld schedule definition, robot
workcell modeling and simulation, and collision avoidance/detection
algorithms. Sufficient system interface shall exist such that a
complete robotic weld sequence can be downloaded from the off-line
planner for execution by the robotic workcell with minimal operator
intervention. It is intended that this system shall be provided under
a cost sharing arrangement in which TACOM-ARDEC will provide up to
$300K. TACOM-ARDEC will use the installed robotic welding system to
populate a weld process database with weld process parameters for
armament applications, with potential commercial spin-off application.
The database will consist of a combination of approximately five
hundred (500) procedure qualification records (PQR) and weld procedure
specifications (WPS) for mild steel, alloy steel, and aluminum
weldments typical of those employed on towed and self propelled
howitzers. The database will be shared as part of this agreement. The
database will be generated by TACOM-ARDEC's inhouse technologists, and
as part of future development efforts (not part of this effort) to
create a mature automated welding system technology for armament
applications, and eventual implementation into the armament production
base. It is intended the partner will collaborate in the development
of the database. Future year efforts to develop a mature system may
involve competitive procurements. This effort, that is to install the
robotic welding system, may be made using either a cost-sharing
contract or a non-procurement agreement. If a non-procurement
instrument is utilized, it will not employ the standard Federal
Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Guidance, but rather will be governed by
DoD directive 3210.6-R and OMB Circular A-110, as applicable.
Interested parties need to submit a two- to three-page white paper
describing their planned cooperative arrangement, including the
specifications and capabilities of their robotic welding system, and
the cost share that they bring to this partnership. White papers are
due by the response date indicated above. Information regarding this
action can be accessed at http://procnet.pica.army.mil. (0134) Loren Data Corp. http://www.ld.com (SYN# 0012 19980518\B-0005.SOL)
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