JA_Robotic_Depaint_System_Solicitation_Redacted.pdf

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Justification and Approval – Robotic Laser Depaint System

1. IDENTIFICATION OF THE AGENCY, CONTRACTING ACTIVITY, and document being approved:

Contracting Activity: General Services Administration (GSA) Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) General Supplies and Services (GSS) Large Special Order Program (Large SOP) 819 Taylor St., Fort Worth, TX 76102

Requiring Activity: Marine Depot Maintenance Command (MDMC)

Description of Requirement: Robotic Laser Depainter System Components

Procurement Vehicle: Firm Fixed Price Purchase Order

Component Manufacturers:

Brand Name or Equal to Fanuc

Global, Allen-Bradley, and Rockwell Automation

Preponderance NAICS 333249 - Other Industrial Machinery Manufacturing

Federal Supply Code (FSC) 4910 - Motor Vehicle Maintenance and Repair Shop Specialized Equipment

Period of Performance (POP)

Estimated Procurement Value:

2. NATURE OR DESCRIPTION OF THE ACTION BEING APPROVED:

This document seeks to provide a justification and approval to procure various system components for a Robotic Laser Depaint System to be installed at

The overall procurement also includes delivery, accessories, installation, site preparation and building modification (after approval from Government POC has been received), testing/verification, training/familiarization, and warranty for the basic and second option system as applicable.

Laser depainting systems are eco-friendly, energy-efficient, and complete the job in half the time. Laser cleaning removes paint, contaminants, rust, and other materials with a high-energy laser beam which leaves the substrate untouched. To prevent thermal damage to the vehicles and equipment, the laser

General Services Administration

JUSTIFICATION AND APPROVAL FOR BRAND NAME OR EQUAL PURCHASE (J&A)

FAR 13.501(a) energy must be delivered rapidly and briefly, either by pulsing the laser beam or by sweeping a continuous laser beam across the painted surface. In either case, the top layer of paint is heated and then vaporizes, followed by immediate combustion as it leaves the surface and encounters oxygen in the air.

The heat of combustion in laser paint stripping can be many times higher than the laser energy deposited to the surface, and efficient removal of this heated effluent is essential for process efficiency and workplace safety. Robotic laser depainter system allows for a more precise and automated process for vehicles and equipment to be stripped and painted again to support repair of surface damage. These components listed in the J&A are required as part of the overall Robotic De-Paint System.

This requirement is a new action under FAR 13.5 where the government intends on awarding a firm fixed price purchase order for depainter and other assorted components that are the actual brand name or equal to certain products manufactured by the following companies: Fanuc Global, Allen- Bradley, and Rockwell Automation.

3. DESCRIPTION OF SUPPLIES/SERVICES REQUIRED TO MEET THE AGENCY’S NEEDS

This list below contains the brand name or equal components and software with associated salient characteristics and special capabilities and unique attributes that are necessary in order to meet the government’s requirement.

Robotic Laser Depainter Component Salient Characteristics

BRAND NAME SPECIFICATION / SALIENT

CHARACTERISTICS

Component unique attributes and specialized capabilities

FANUC Robot with a payload capable of handling the End of Arm Tooling/Laser Unit

Minimum Payload of 150kg (~330 lbs.)

FANUC Robot shall employee Fanuc Dual Check Safety (DCS) and Collison Guard

Position Check, Safe Zones, Safety Speed Check, & Cartesian Position Check.

Safety Zones for operators help assure the operator's safety in a Robotic Industries Association (RIA) safety compliance manner, while keeping the robot moving.

Safety Speed Check function can be used to slow down a robot under specific conditions, in a fail- safe, safety related manner.

Cartesian Position Check can be used by the robot cell designer and programmer to simply and quickly define the physical envelope of the robot and its end of arm tool. The designer/programmer can in turn use this physical envelope to restrict motion of the robot.

Rockwell Automatio n

The HMI software shall be the latest version of Rockwell Automation Rockwell Software (RSView) Site Edition (SE) (local) and shall be loaded on the Human Machine Interface (HMI) Personal Computer (PC).

Minimum Specification: Integration with plc controllers View and interact with alarm conditions throughout the architecture with easy to use graphical alarm objects Categorize alarms into alarm groups to control how they are viewed, filtered, and annunciated.

Align with ISA 18052 alarm management standards with built in alarm features.

Provide a centralized development environment for managing and editing any components in the HMI application.

Make and save edits to the application while the system is running with changes rolled out to clients dynamically.

Easily edit displays, alarms, and tags with XML Expot.

Ability to quickly visualize the situation and navigate to a more detailed screen is essential when monitoring an alarm condition.

Production system security can be integrated with an existing IT infrastructure.

Access to manufacturing data through reports.

Rockwell Automatio n

Factory Talk View Studio shall also be loaded on the PC

Minimum Specification: Create graphical representation of your system for easier system modifications.

Rockwell Automatio n

Logix 5000 Pro Edition: The PLC software shall be the latest version of the PLC and shall be loaded on to the PC

Minimum Specification: Supports Ladder Logic Programming Has Function Block Diagrams (FBD) Has Structured Text (ST) Has Sequential Function Char (SFC) Programming languages Has Phase Manager PIDE Autotuner PLC Emulator

Fanuc Roboguide Minimum Specification: Offline programming robot simulation software. Allows user to create, program, and simulate robotic work cell in 3D without the need and expense of a prototype work cell setup.

Total estimated value for the Robotic Laser Depainter system is should the option to purchase and install and additional depainter system be exercised.

4. IDENTIFICATION OF STATUTORY AUTHORITY PERMITTING BRAND NAME OR EQUAL

PROCEDURES

_x_ Authority. There is not a specific authority to reference for Brand Name or Equal procurements.

The simplified acquisition procedures being used for this requirement are authorized under FAR

13.500. FAR 13.106-1(b)(2) authorizes sole-source (including brand name) acquisitions of commercial products and commercial services conducted pursuant to subpart 13.5. While this requirement is not being restricted to brand name only, in accordance with section 888(a) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 (Pub. L. 114-328), DFARS 213.501(a)(ii) - Special documentation requirements, the justification and approval addressed in FAR 13.501(a) is required in order to use brand name or equal descriptions or proprietary specifications and standards. The procedures in FAR subpart 13.5 were used in accordance with 41 U.S.C.1901.

5. DEMONSTRATION OF THE NATURE OF THE ACQUISITION REQUIRES USE OF THE

AUTHORITY CITED

The brand name or equal components listed in the table below are required in order to meet the government’s requirement for a robotic laser depainter system. This system would be used to remove the operator from hazardous working environments (Safety), reduce maintenance cost by replacing ancient maintenance intensive equipment, increase production throughput, and increase our quality on our production assets by reducing rework from human error. The procurement and use of the listed components will enable the government to perform its mission in a safer, quicker, and more cost effective manner. The components demonstrate the specialized of capability, level of quality and functionality required to meet the government’s requirement for a fully operational and sustainable robotic laser depainter system. Further, the salient characteristics are required because when all these individual specifications and salient characteristics are combined together into the Robotic De-Paint System as a whole, it allows for more autonomous, user friendly system. As a result, the depainter system will be more of an Operator based system vs. an Engineering based system. Use of these components and the resulting depainter system will allow the government to have an equipment operator vs. an engineer to run this system, thus cutting costs and increasing overall efficiency of operations within the MDMC. Additionally, these components will create a more autonomous system, which will provide the government a significant time savings and cost avoidance since the government will not have to fabricate fixtures, jigs, stands, and trailers for our existing workload and future workload. Lastly, the purchase of this state of the art system will allow the government to "retire" some if not all of its outdated, maintenance intensive media blasting equipment, thus increasing the safety and efficiency of the depainting process.

6. DESCRIPTION OF EFFORTS MADE TO ENSURE THAT OFFERORS ARE SOLICITED

FROM AS MANY POTENTIAL SOURCES AS PRACTICABLE, INCLUDING WHETHER A

NOTICE WAS OR WILL BE PUBLICIZED AS REQUIRED BY SUBPART 5.2 OR IF AN

EXCEPTION UNDER 5.202 APPLIES

Market research for the robotic laser depainter system included searching required sources of supply to include, UNICOR, Federal Supply Schedules, Green Procurement List and AbilityOne. No required sources of supply queried are capable of meeting the requirements for robotic laser depaint system component and software. Additional market research included searching for possible small business capable of meeting the requirements using the Small Business Dynamic Search site and issuing a RFI and evaluation of responses received. Small business results indicate there are not two or more small businesses are capable of meeting the government’s requirements given the added constraints imposed by the nonmanufacturer rule.

A redacted version of the approved J&A shall be posted to SAM.gov in order to satisfy the publicizing requirement of FAR Part 5.102(a)(6). In accordance FAR 13.501(a)(1)(iv), this justification for a brand name or equal acquisition will be posted with the solicitation. The solicitation will be a combined solicitation/synopsis IAW FAR 5.203(a)(2).

7. DETERMINATION ANTICIPATED COST WILL BE FAIR AND REASONABLE TO THE

GOVERNMENT

The contracting officer will determine price fair and reasonable by utilizing price analysis techniques

IAW FAR 15.404-1, to ensure that the final agreed to price is fair and reasonable. The Government will be utilizing at least two methods by which to determine pricing submitted by to be fair and reasonable.

These techniques shall include one or more of the following, but not limited to:

Competition Requesting recent commercial and Government sales history Making indirect pricing comparisons to:

- Similar items in the marketplace,

- Competitive published price lists, and

- Independent Government Estimates.

8. DESCRIPTION OF MARKET RESEARCH CONDUCTED AND THE RESULTS

A Request for Information (RFI) was posted on SAM.gov for 10 calendar days to ascertain whether a Small Business had the capability to meet the government’s requirement. 4 vendors responded to the

RFI (

9. ANY OTHER FACTS SUPPORT THE USE OF BRAND NAME OR EQUAL PROCEDURES

A statement of work has been developed for the overall requirement for a robotic laser depainter system in support of full and open competition, but the government requires procurement of state of the art, compatible and supportable hardware, software components from either the manufacturers listed in paragraph 3 of this J&A or components of at least equal specifications.

10. LISTING OF THE SOURCES, IF ANY, THAT EXPRESSED, IN WRITING, AN INTEREST IN THE

ACQUISITION

No other vendors expressed interest in writing for this requirement other than those previously stated.

11. STATEMENT OF ACTIONS TO OVERCOME BARRIERS OF COMPETITION BEFORE ANY

SUBSEQUENT ACQUISITION FOR THE SUPPLIES REQUIRED

Fanuc, Allen Bradley, and Rockwell Automation offer the brand name components and software capable of meeting the Government’s requirements. However, the government understands that potentially “equal” component and software solutions may be available with in the marketplace. The government will continue to monitor the state of the art in the robotic laser depainter industry to ascertain if requirements can be developed and met without limiting competition and modify the statement of work accordingly for future robotic laser depainter requirements. To accomplish this goal, the MDMC and GSA will continue to evaluate the capabilities of other brands/products through continuing market research and changing needs of the MDMC. Continued efforts in this regard will ensure the Government utilizes fair, efficient, and economical business practices.