RFQ QUESTIONS.docx
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- Solicitation number
- 36C24524Q0080
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This document contains questions and answers regarding a federal solicitation for water treatment services and supplies at a Veterans Affairs facility. Key details include the following:
The solicitation is for boiler plant and cooling tower water treatment services and supplies at a Veterans Health Administration facility. The questions and answers indicate chemical storage tank capacities, brine tank salt capacities, softener preventative maintenance requirements, a request for safety data sheets and technical specifications on the currently used city water phosphate chemical, cooling tower makeup water usage numbers, Legionella testing requirements, bag filter type and replacement schedule, and the number of chemical injection points on the cooling tower controller. The facility uses approximately 2.5 to 3 million gallons of water per month.
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1. How big is each holding tank capacity for each chemical system? Specifically for the following: a) Steam Boiler Chemicals, b) Cooling Tower Chemicals, c) City Water Phosphate Drum 55 gallon
1. What amount of salt can each softener system brine tanks hold? Specifically for the following: a) Building 3 – Boiler Plant, b) Building 2, c) Building 20 (BRAC) Bldg 2. 900lbs Brac unsure but much smaller than the other two Bldg. 3 540lbs total
The 50lb weather proof bags are a must
1. What specific quarterly preventive maintenance services are to be performed on the softener? Is this a verification that the softener regeneration cycles are working as expected? Elution studies required? Please provide guidance and documentation of most recent maintenance performed to understand time and personnel requirements.
Checking hardness, analyzing a months’ worth of data to ensure it is soft and making programming adjustments accordingly Analyzing water treatment records to make chem feed pump adjustments Cleaning chemical pumps/piping Following manufacture recommendations on softeners
1. Please provide an SDS and Technical Data sheet for City Water Supply phosphate chemical currently used, and estimated usage.
No phosphate in use
1. The Cooling Tower system does not have any Make/Model information, nor does it have any indication of monthly/annual makeup water usage. Please provide these numbers to be able to estimate chemical consumption.
I would assume Yates
1. Clarify type of Legionella testing required (Standard ISO 11731 Spread Plate? qPCR?)
VHA DIR 1061 is the guidance we use. Test would need to satisfy this directive.
1. What type of bag filter is used, and size of bag? Historical usage? Monthly/Weekly replacement?
Monthly, its literally a standard cloth type bag
1. How many chemical injection feed points are on the cooling tower controller panel? Typically 3 or 4.
CT-72
CL-32
Biocide Foam agent Chlorine Tabs
1. I saw just now that on page 13 the solicitation that the “Vendor must treat the facility City Water supply with Phosphate to maintain a residual level of 1 -3 ppm.”
So that I can make a good estimate, can you tell me how much total water the facility uses each year? I thought that one of the guys said that practice was stopped?
facility water usage averages around 2.5 to 3 million gallons per month.
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