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99 -- TECHNOLOGIES, PROCEDURES, CONCEPTS, SYSTEMS, ALTERNATIVE MATERIALS OR DEVICES TO REPLACE, MINIMIZE OR PROCESS POLLUTANTS PRESENT IN UNDERWATER SHIP HUSBANDRY DISCHARGE SOL N00167-99-SS-0094 POC Sheila Riggs, (301)227-5198 In support of the development of Uniform National Discharge Standards (UNDS), the Carderock Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (CDNSWC) seeks sources to provide technologies, systems, procedures, concepts, alternative materials, or devices to process, minimize, replace or otherwise control constituents present in underwater ship husbandry discharge generated by Armed Forces vessels. The underwater ship husbandry discharges are composed of materials discharged during the inspection, maintenance, cleaning, and repair of hulls and hull appendages performed while the vessel is waterborne. Underwater ship husbandry includes activities such as hull cleaning, painting, propulsion system repair, fiberglass repair, welding, sonar dome repair, propulsor lay-up, non-destructive testing, and masker belt repairs. The activity of primary concern is hull cleaning. This discharge may include marine organisms and paint particulate; solid and dissolved forms of copper and zinc. Secondarily the other ship husbandry activities may discharge paint and epoxy coatings, chlorine produced oxidants, ferrous iron particles and epoxies; respectively for each ship husbandry discharge. Potential offers may propose a solution focused towards the remediation of the constituents associated with the discharge of any singular ship husbandry activity or combination of activities. Potential offerors are requested to respond with technical documentation supporting the technology, system, procedure, concept, alternative material, or device. The proposed solution must demonstrate the ability to control, reduce, or eliminate the discharge or some or all of its constituents for the associated type of underwater ship husbandry activity. Additional information should include, but not be limited to, the following: process description, current commercial or military applications, specific applications in the marine environment (including customer references/ship class/name), processing rate capability, normal operative and maximum permissible pressures, physical size, total dry and wet weights, maintenance requirements, operational manning requirements, power consumption per hour of operation, utilities required, secondary wastestreams generated, and equipment performance and testing results. Technical, industry, or professional society certifications or endorsements should be provided, if available. A summary of agents or contaminants which could potentially interfere with the operation and performance of the technology is also requested. In evaluating the submissions, DoD will consider the following criteria: (1) the nature of the discharge that the technology, procedure, concept, system, alternative material, or device is designed to process, (2) the effectiveness of the technology, procedure, concept, system, alternative material, or device at mitigating the environmental effects of that discharge, and (3) the technology, procedure, concept, system, alternative material, or device's cost, practicability and effect on operations or operational capability when used on a vessel. This synopsis is for information purposes and to identify potential technologies and offerors. This sources sought announcement does not constitute an RFP and does not obligate the government in any way to purchase or test any of the potential solutions offered. Further, it does not commit the government to pay for any proposal costs in response to the sources sought announcement. Submit responses for this synopsis to Naval Surface Warfare Center, Attn: Sheila Riggs (Ship Husbandry), Code 633, 9500 MacArthur Boulevard, West Bethesda, Maryland 20817. Responses to this sources sought announcement are due within 45 calendar days of the date of publication. For additional technical information on underwater ship husbandry, refer to the nature of discharge (NOD) report available at http://206.5.146.100/n45/doc/unds/unds.html. For more information on this effort, please consult the Federal Register dated 25 August 1998 or visit the notice on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's homepage at http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-WATER/1999/May/Day-10/w11164.htm. Posted 09/30/99 (W-SN386557). (0273)

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