Design New Lacquer Preparation Facility for RDX and HMX Production at Holston Army Ammunition Plant (HSAAP)
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- Solicitation number
- W911S226RA003
- 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
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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 project involves designing a replacement for the existing Buildings 149/150 facility that currently produces lacquer batches for all plastic bonded explosives (PBX) manufacturing. 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, ensuring continuity of operations while meeting modern safety, quality, and environmental standards. The lacquer preparation facility is critical for producing binding agents that reduce the sensitivity of RDX, HMX, and TATB based explosive formulations, supporting both 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. The evaluation criteria are not specified in this pre-solicitation notice.
This opportunity is classified under NAICS code 541330 (Engineering Services) and PSC code C1EA (Architect And Engineering- Construction: Ammunition Facilities), indicating the specialized nature of the ammunition facility design work required. No set-aside designation has been applied to this procurement, making it a full and open competition. The current facility comprises Buildings 149/150 and includes a chemical/solvent storage tank farm, with mobile wagons used to transfer lacquer to explosives production buildings throughout the plant. No incumbent contractors or potential award values are mentioned in this pre-solicitation notice. The facility will process binder materials and solvents, and may also prepare plasticizers as feedstock raw materials for RDX-based explosives formulations. The new facility design must accommodate the expanded production capacity requirements while maintaining the capability to support HSAAP's modernization efforts for RDX, HMX, and IMX production capacity to meet current and future Department of Defense explosives production needs.
Notice text
The existing Lacquer Preparation Facility at Holston Army Ammunition Plant, Kingsport, TN, comprising ofBuildings 149/150 and a chemical/solvent storage tank farm, is the only facility capable of producing lacquer batches forthe production of all plastic bonded explosives (PBX). The facility receives, stores, handles, and processes the bindermaterials and solvents in manufacturing the lacquer in explosives production. Mobile wagons are used to transfer lacquerfrom the facility to the explosives production buildings. Lacquer is a mixture of dissolved rubbery polymer materials in asolvent 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 formulatingRDX based explosives. The Lacquer Facility supports legacy explosives and the new Insensitive Munitions (IM) explosivesbeing developed at HSAAP.This effort will require Architect-Engineering (A-E) design services for a new Lacquer PreparationFacility with all the necessary process equipment to support annual production capacity expansion with a minimum of 15Mlbs of RDX and 2.5M lbs of HMX based formulations. This will ensure continuity of operations in maintaining the productioncapability, quality, safety, and environmental requirements to meet modern standards and permits. This new facility willsupport the expansion modernization of HSAAP RDX, HMX, and IMX production capacity to provide a viable capability tomeet current/future DoD explosives production.
Notice history
| Notice | Type | Posted |
|---|---|---|
| Design New Lacquer Preparation Facility for RDX and HMX Production at Holston Army Ammunition Plant (HSAAP) | Solicitation | |
| This notice | Pre-Solicitation |
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