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Market Survey for Water Blast Roadwheel Denuding System GENERAL INFORMATION: The U.S. Government appreciates the time and effort taken to respond to this survey. The U.S. Government acknowledges its obligations under 18 U.S.C. §1905 to protect information qualifying as “CONFIDENTIAL” under this statute. Pursuant to this statute, the U.S. Government is willing to accept any trade secret or confidential restrictions placed on qualifying data forwarded in response to the survey questions and to protect it from unauthorized disclosure subject to the following:

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DESCRIPTION OF INTENT:

THIS IS A MARKET SURVEY REQUESTING INFORMATION IN SUPPORT OF THE FOLLOWING PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENT. No contract will be awarded from this announcement. This is not a Request for Proposal (RFP) or an announcement of a forthcoming solicitation. Also, it is not a request seeking contractors interested in being placed on a solicitation mailing list. Response to this questionnaire is voluntary and no reimbursement will be made for any costs associated with providing information in response to this market survey and any follow-on information requests. Data submitted in response to this market survey will not be returned. No solicitation document exists at this time, and calls requesting a solicitation will not be answered.

PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENT:

The purpose of this questionnaire is to obtain information on commercial industry capability to satisfy U.S. Army requirements for the Water Blast Roadwheel Denuding System.

The Red River Army Depot (RRAD) Rubber Products Branch (RPB) requirement is to obtain a new Denuding System that is capable of removing bonded rubber, from 25”x 6” Abraham’s roadwheels and the 24”x 3.75” Bradley Fighting Vehicle System (BFVS) and Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) Roadwheels. This operation is to be performed fully automated under normal operation and capable of manual control for recovery operations. The system controls shall be capable of operating autonomously through Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC) contained in a NEMA 12 enclosure. Operators shall be capable of controlling the system through a touchscreen, Human Machine Interface (HMI). The process shall be performed by a high-intensity water blast system. The system shall be capable of removing 1” thick bonded rubber from the roadwheels down to bare metal without removing metal from the surface of the wheel. The roadwheels shall be placed into the cell via pallets that Red River Army Depot Rubber Products Branch already uses for roadwheel transport and processing in other areas of production. A material handling six axis robotic arm shall be utilized to load the machine to include custom end of arm tooling. A fixture/stainless steel chuck shall secure the wheel inside of the cabinet. The Cabinet shall contain all of the water and rubber debris being removed from the roadwheel. All materials inside of the cabinet shall be made of stainless steel material. It shall have a built in manually operated cleaning system to allow for quick wash down of the interior walls, corners of the cabinet, windows and the work table to remove debris left over from the denuding process. Each cycle shall take no more than 6 minutes maximum in continuous operation from the time the wheel is mounted to a fixture, processed and removed from the fixture without damaging the metal wheel. The process water shall be filtered down to a 5 to 10 micron contaminate particle size prior to being released into the industrial waste sewer drains. Large debris from the wheels will be collected separately in a hopper and discarded or recycled by RPB. The overall size of the entire system cannot exceed 25’ wide by 40’ long.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR COMPLETING THE QUESTIONNAIRE:

1. Number each response with the appropriate question number.

2. You do not have to repeat the question in your response.

3. If you cannot answer a question, please indicate “No Response.”

4. If a response will satisfy another question, state: “See response to question XXX.”

5. Include relevant sales media and product manuals. If providing an ACROBAT formatted manual, annotate the manual to indicate which material is applicable to the questions. If preferred, include Internet Web links to locations where animations/videos may be viewed.

6. If your sales media and/or manuals contain a restricted distribution statement, issue a release statement indicating that the restricted material may be distributed to Army personnel involved with this Market Survey.

7. Spell out any acronyms in their first instance.

8. Clearly mark any proprietary information. If applicable, the front page of your response package should state: “Proprietary Information Contained.” Provide a release statement indicating that the proprietary information may be distributed to Army personnel involved with this Market Survey.

Request for Information (RFI) ― Questionnaire

1. Company Name:

2. Are you a large or small business for North American Industry Classification System?

If small business, are you:

Small Disadvantaged – or – 8(a)

In a Hubzone

Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned

Women Owned

3. Mailing Address:

4. E-Mail Address:

5. Point of Contact (POC)/Title:

6. Telephone No:

7. Fax No:

8. How long has your company been in business and what is you experience in working with Water Blast Roadwheel Denuding System(s)?

9. How long has your company been in business and what is you experience in working with Roadwheel Denuding System(s)?

10. Is your Water Blast Roadwheel Denuding System(s) customarily used by the general public or by non-governmental entities for purposes other than governmental purposes?

11. Is your Roadwheel Denuding System(s) customarily used by the general public or by non-governmental entities for purposes other than governmental purposes?

12. Is your company currently capable of suppling a Water Blast Roadwheel Denuding System per the Performance Requirement listed above? If not, what would you be able to provide?

13. Are you able to meet all of the Requirements listed in the Performance Requirement listed above? If not, please list which areas you are unable to meet.

14. Do you have any plans to develop a Water Blast Roadwheel Denuding System in the future? If so, when would they be in production? Available?

15. Are there any hazardous materials being used?

16. Are you able to provide either commercial or military packaging if either are asked for as a requirement?

17. Have you procured a Water Blast Roadwheel Denuding System for any U.S. Government agency in the past? If so, which agency? What is the contract number?

18. If you are capable of producing the Water Blast Roadwheel Denuding System, what is the expected lead time for delivery from the date of contract award?

19. What types of Water Blast Roadwheel Denuding System and Roadwheel Denuding System have you produced in the past?

20. In order to fulfill contract requirements, would you have to increase your workforce or facilities?

21. If you were awarded a contract for the Water Blast Roadwheel Denuding System, where would production take place?

22. Any other pertinent information you care to enclose?

Responses to this market investigation questionnaire should be sent via e-mail to Carrie English - carrie.l.english.civ@mail.mil. You are requested to put “Water Blast Roadwheel Denuding System MARKET SURVEY RESPONSE” in the subject line of the e-mail. You may respond in total or to any part of this questionnaire. Any requests for clarifications of this Survey shall also be addressed to Carrie English, and will be published with the appropriate answers at the same web location as this Questionnaire.

Any product literature that cannot be e-mailed may be sent to:

U.S. Army Contracting Command - Warren

CCTA-HDT-B

ATTN: Carrie English, Mail Stop 350

6501 E. Eleven Mile Rd.

Warren, MI 48397-5000

Replies to this questionnaire must be received by 2PM Eastern Standard Time (EST), 11 July 2019. Please mark your information “Proprietary”, as you believe appropriate. Your input is voluntary and no compensation will be made for your participation in this survey. We appreciate your cooperation in answering these questions and thank you in advance for your participation.

BE ADVISED that updates to the Water Blast Roadwheel Denuding System or non-proprietary questions from interested parties and responses by the Government will be posted as addenda to the questionnaire.