sources_sought_Synopsis_N2O4_.pdf

This is a Sources Sought notice issued by the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Energy - San Antonio, Texas.

This is NOT a solicitation for proposals. No awards will be made from the responses to this announcement.

However, responses may be used to determine the appropriate acquisition strategy for a future procurement. This notice issued by DLA Energy, solicits industry to express their capability and interest to provide all of the product, materials, supplies, management, tools, equipment and labor necessary for the production and delivery of seven grades of DiNitrogen Tetroxide (N2O4).

Specification Requirements: N2O4 provided by interested suppliers would be required to meet the stated requirements in the attachment titled “TABLE I -- CHEMICAL COMPOSITION AND PHYSICAL

PROPERTIES”.

Anticipated Period of Performance: The possible requirement for N2O4 is expected to result in one five-year base contract plus five one-year options with the period of performance to commence in October 2017.

Estimated Quantities for this potential requirement are as follows:

Year 1 is reserved for the supplier to ready their facility for N2O4 production and distribution.

Year 2 through 5 - the following are the estimated N2O4 quantity requirements per year per grade:

Description of N2O4 Grade

Amount in pounds

NTO 400

MON‐1 300

MON‐3 30,000

MON‐3 Ultra Low Iron 18,150

MON‐10 1,200

MON‐15 300

MON‐25 100

Capability Statement: Interested qualified organizations should submit a capability statement for this requirement. Statements should include an indication of current business size and a list of available ancillary services available. Services the government would be interested in getting capabilities information from interested suppliers include:

- Capability to store empty or partially filled government owned cylinders (see attached Table II for description of Government owned cylinders)

- Capability to maintain and conduct 5-year recertification of government owned cylinders IAW CFR

- Capability of supplier to provide transportation of full and empty government owned cylinders to and from multiple U.S. based customers and the suppliers production facility.

- Capability to passivate Government owned cylinders in accordance with ASTM specification A 967.

- Capability to provide reprocessing services to reprocess returned N2O4 product that may be off specification or is no longer required by the user.

- Capability of supplier to conduct laboratory analysis of N2O4 to confirm product quality meets specification requirements. Would also be interested in supplier capability to perform non-specification laboratory tests that may be required for troubleshooting quality problems.

NOTE: Interested suppliers should be aware that the incumbent supplier has indicated they may be available for providing technical consult to interested N2O4 suppliers.

Information Submission Instructions: All capability statements sent in response to this Sources Sought notice should be submitted to Barbara M. Peterson, Contracting Officer, at barbara.peterson@dla.mil. All responses must be received by COB 25 August, 2015.

Disclaimer and Important Notes:

This notice does not obligate the Government to award a contract or otherwise pay for the information provided in response. The Government reserves the right to use information provided by respondents for any purpose deemed necessary and legally appropriate. Any organization responding to this notice should ensure that its response is complete and sufficiently detailed to allow the Government to determine the organization's qualifications to perform the work. Respondents are advised that the Government is under no obligation to acknowledge receipt of the information received or provide feedback to respondents with respect to any information submitted. After a review of the responses received, a pre-solicitation synopsis and solicitation may be published in Federal Business

Opportunities. Respondents will be added to the prospective offerors list for any subsequent solicitation.

However, responses to this notice will not be considered adequate responses to a solicitation.

Confidentiality:

No proprietary, classified, confidential, or sensitive information should be included in your response.

DINITROGEN TETROXIDE supplied shall fully meet the requirements of military specification MIL-PRF-26539F with the exception that the specification properties Table I is replaced in its entirety with Table I below.

TABLE I -- CHEMICAL COMPOSITION AND PHYSICAL PROPERTIES

Composition

NTO

(Red-

Brown)

MON-1

(Green)

MON-3

(Green)

MON-3UL

(Green)

MON-10

(Green)

MON-15

(Green)

MON-25

(Green)

Test Paragraph

N2O4 assay %wt, MIN 99.5 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 4.3.3

NO content %wt, MAX %wt, MIN 1/

1.0 0.6

3.0 2.6

3.0 2.6

11.0 10.3

16.0 15.5

26.0 25.3

4.3.2

N2O4 + NO

%wt, MIN - - - - 99.5 99.5 99.5 99.5 99.5 99.5 4.3.3

Water equivalent %wt, MAX 0.15 0.15 0.15 0.15 0.15 0.10 0.15 4.3.4

Chloride content %wt, MAX2/ 0.040 0.040 0.040 0.040 0.040 0.040 0.040 4.3.5

Nonvolatile residue mg/L, MAX

- - - - 10.0 10.0 10.0 10.0 10.0 10.0 4.3.6

Iron content ppm wt, MAX - - - - 0.4 0.4 0.25 0.4 0.4 0.4 4.3.7

Particulate mg/L, MAX 10.0 10.0 10.0 10.0 10.0 10.0 10.0 4.3.8

NOTES:

\1. The NO content shall be limited to that which does not change the specified red-brown color of the propellant (3.4)

\2. The chloride test need not be performed on any propellant type if the material was manufactured by the ammonia oxidation process

TABLE II -- DESCRIPTION OF GOVERNMENT OWNED CYLINDERS

i) 9 each, DOT 4BW, 119 gallon capacity; dimensions: height 65” with an outer diameter of 30”; weight 790 lbs empty. Top loading, vertically oriented. (maximum allowable working pressure 500 psig.)

ii) 10 each, DOT 4BW, 55 gallon capacity; dimensions: height 44” with an outer diameter of 30”; weight 560 lbs empty. Top loading, vertically oriented. (maximum allowable working pressure 500 psig.)

iii) 6 each, DOT 4BW, 30 gallon capacity; dimensions: height 37 9/16” with an outer diameter of 20.5; weight 325 lbs empty. Top loading, vertically oriented. (maximum allowable working pressure 500 psig.)

iv) 2 each, DOT 4BW, 15 gallon capacity; dimensions: height 29” with an outer diameter of 26”; weight 287 lbs empty. Top loading, vertically oriented. (maximum allowable working pressure 500 psig.)

v) 4 each, DOT 4BW, 5 gallon capacity; dimensions: height 24” with an outer diameter of 17”; weight 99 lbs empty. Top loading, vertically oriented. (maximum allowable working pressure 500 psig.)

vi) 60 each, designed to DOT 110A500W tank car tank; stainless steel; dimensions: length 81” with an outer diameter of 30”; maximum allowable working pressure 500 psig; weight 1,200 lbs empty; horizontally oriented.