Design New Lacquer Preparation Facility for RDX and HMX Production at Holston Army Ammunition Plant (HSAAP)
Closed Pre-Solicitation Posted
- Solicitation number
- W911S2126RA003
- Agency
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MICC Fort Drum
Mission and Installation Contracting Command, Department of Defense
- Responses due
- Set-aside
- No set-aside
Opportunity facts
- NAICS code
- 541330 Engineering Services
- Place of performance
- Holston Army Ammunition Plant, 4509 W Stone Dr, Kingsport, TN 37660
- Points of contact
Notice details come from SAM.gov. Updated .
About this opportunity
The Department of the Army Materiel Command Mission and Installation Contracting Command Fort Drum is seeking Architect-Engineering (A-E) design services for a new Lacquer Preparation Facility at Holston Army Ammunition Plant in Kingsport, Tennessee. The procurement involves designing a replacement facility for the existing Buildings 149/150 and chemical/solvent storage tank farm, which currently serves as the sole facility capable of producing lacquer batches for all plastic bonded explosives (PBX) production. The new facility must include all necessary process equipment to support expanded production capacity while maintaining production capability, quality, safety, and environmental requirements to meet modern standards and permits. The facility will handle binder materials and solvents for manufacturing lacquer used as a binding agent in RDX, HMX, and TATB based explosives formulations, as well as support legacy explosives and new Insensitive Munitions (IM) explosives development. This pre-solicitation notice was posted on July 30, 2025, with a due date of August 14, 2025, and falls under NAICS code 541330 for Engineering Services.
This opportunity does not utilize any set-aside designation and is classified under PSC code C1EA for Architect and Engineering Construction of Ammunition Facilities. The new facility must support annual production capacity expansion with a minimum of 15 million pounds of RDX and 2.5 million pounds of HMX based formulations. The design services will support the expansion and modernization of HSAAP's RDX, HMX, and IMX production capacity to provide viable capability for meeting current and future Department of Defense explosives production requirements. The facility will utilize mobile wagons to transfer lacquer from the preparation facility to explosives production buildings and may also prepare plasticizers as feedstock raw materials for RDX based explosives formulations. No incumbent contractors, potential award values, or specific timeline for services completion are identified in this pre-solicitation notice.
Notice text
The existing Lacquer Preparation Facility at Holston Army Ammunition Plant, Kingsport, TN, comprising of Buildings 149/150 and a chemical/solvent storage tank farm, is the only facility capable of producing lacquer batches for the production of all plastic bonded explosives (PBX). The facility receives, stores, handles, and processes the binder materials and solvents in manufacturing the lacquer in explosives production. Mobile wagons are used to transfer lacquer from the facility to the explosives production buildings. Lacquer is a mixture of dissolved rubbery polymer materials in a solvent that is used as a binding agent in reducing the sensitivity of RDX, HMX, and TATB based explosives formulations. A plasticizer instead of lacquer may also be prepared in the facility to be used as a feedstock raw material in formulating RDX based explosives. The Lacquer Facility supports legacy explosives and the new Insensitive Munitions (IM) explosives being developed at HSAAP.This effort will require Architect-Engineering (A-E) design services for a new Lacquer Preparation Facility with all the necessary process equipment to support annual production capacity expansion with a minimum of 15M lbs of RDX and 2.5M lbs of HMX based formulations. This will ensure continuity of operations in maintaining the production capability, quality, safety, and environmental requirements to meet modern standards and permits. This new facility will support the expansion modernization of HSAAP RDX, HMX, and IMX production capacity to provide a viable capability to meet current/future DoD explosives production.
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