Hazardous material spill containment and clean-up equipment and material

Under solicitation number W52P1J-15-R-0077, The Joint Project Manager for Elimination (JPM-E) issued a Special Notice for technologies to remediate chemical agent-contaminated soils and debris on site at large chemical weapons burial sites on February 03, 2015.

As announced in this Special Notice, the project will consist of three phases. The first phase will be the selection of a technology. The second phase will be the award of a contract to test the technology. The third phase will be the execution of the test. The test will evaluate technology performance with several parameters to include soils types, agent contamination, and moisture content of the soils.

The Government stated the technology must meet or exceed the following critical objectives:

First, provide a mature technology that will remediate mustard (HD) agent and phosgene- contaminated soils and debris to a contamination level that will allow the release of the product to the general public. U.S. Army Public Health Command Health Based Environmental Screening Level (HBESL) of 0.01 mg/kg will be used for HD and EPA Residential Screening Level of 0.46 mg/kg will be used for phosgene. The technology must be capable of processing multiple soil mixtures.

Second, the technology must be transported via rail, roads (paved and unpaved), or sea with no more than seven separate trailer loads to multiple sites. The technology can be decontaminated to the Worker Population Limit WPL 0.0004 mg/m3 for HD and must be a turnkey self-contained operation.

Third, the operation of the technology will not interfere with the execution of the schedule or operations of the recovery of buried chemical munitions. The rate of remediation of the soil should not disrupt the excavation schedule.

As announced in the Special Notice, the technical vendor conference was held for interested vendors on March 03, 2015 by the Government. Multiple vendors attended and submitted their capabilities statements, as contained in the sources sought synopsis.

Based on this evaluation of the submitted vendor capabilities and other market research, the Government has determined to select Thermal Desorption technology for conducting the above testing based on the following reasons:

a) Thermal Desorption is a proven technology that can meet all of the stated criteria.
b) Thermal Desorption is a mature technology that has been permitted and used at over 70 Superfund sites. Thermal desorption has been used for over 30 years to remediate soils.
c) Thermal Desorption is widely accepted for remediation of hazardous materials in soils.
d) There are over 39 vendors for Thermal Desorption remediation listed in EPA's Remediation and Characterization Innovative Technologies database (EPA REACH IT) the largest number of vendors for any technology. The large number of vendors will help to promote full and open competition.
e) Thermal Desorption equipment is mobile and transportable.
f) Thermal Desorption equipment can be operated through a wide temperature range 300-1,000F
g) Thermal Desorption equipment is accessible for decontamination
h) Thermal Desorption equipment is scalable and can designed and operated at multiple through put rates
i) Thermal Desorption equipment is adaptable to operate with chemicals in the feed (dehalogenation)
j) Thermal Desorption equipment can be operated with various treatments of the vapor stream.
k) Thermal Desorption equipment can be supplied to operate from 0.25 to 30 tons per hour.

Based on the above, the Government will initiate the planning for competitively soliciting the testing of the selected technology, via a request for proposal. The issuance of this request for proposal, within the May-Jun 2015 timeframe, will be announced by a presolicitation synopsis issued in the FedBizOpps.

The point of contact for government decision is Mr. Brandon McKinnis, Army Contracting Command - Rock Island, Chemical Demilitarization Division, Rock Island, IL. His phone number is 309-782-7763; his email is brandon.e.mckinnis.civ@mail.mil.

The Joint Project Manager for Elimination (JPM-E) has the mission to develop, produce, test, integrate, sustain, operate and field the capabilities (people, equipment, and training) required to conduct chemical WMD destruction operations (assess, access, demilitarize, decontaminate, dispose, and recover) worldwide. To facilitate this mission, the JPM-E is evaluating the technologies to remediate chemical agent-contaminated soils and debris on site at large chemical weapons burial sites.

The project will consist of three phases. The first phase will be the selection of a technology. The second phase will be the award of a contract to test the technology. The third phase will be the execution of the test. The test will evaluate technology performance with several parameters to include soils types, agent contamination, and moisture content of the soils.

The Government has determined the following critical objectives, divided broadly into three areas:

First, provide a mature technology that will remediate mustard (HD) agent and phosgene- contaminated soils and debris to a contamination level that will allow the release of the product to the general public. U.S. Army Public Health Command Health Based Environmental Screening Level (HBESL) of 0.01 mg/kg will be used for HD and EPA Residential Screening Level of 0.46 mg/kg will be used for phosgene. The technology must be capable of processing multiple soil mixtures.

Second, the technology must be transported via rail, roads (paved and unpaved), or sea with no more than seven separate trailer loads to multiple sites. The technology can be decontaminated to the Worker Population Limit WPL 0.0004 mg/m3 for HD and must be a turnkey self-contained operation.

Third, the operation of the technology will not interfere with the execution of the schedule or operations of the recovery of buried chemical munitions. The rate of remediation of the soil should not disrupt the excavation schedule.

This special notice is to announce the convening of a technical vendor conference for market research purposes to discuss the above objectives and to solicit industry input prior to the presolicitation planning of this acquisition. A one day technical vendor conference is scheduled to be held at the Chemical Demilitarization Training Facility (CDTF) on 3 March 2015, commencing at 0800 ET, in Assembly Room A of Building E-4516 at the South Area of Aberdeen Proving Ground - Edgewood Area. Contractor attendance shall be limited to four persons per interested party. Each interested party shall electronically provide a list of attendees to the below point of contact, no later than 18 February 2015 after the issuance of this special notice.

Please submit your interest by company name, point of contact, and your capability statement in response to this acquisition within ten (10) days after the technical vendor conference. Your submission should include a description of your technology and its capabilities (processing rate, percent destruction, ability to make minor modifications to the system) as well as a discussion of: 1) meeting the above objectives, 2) past experiences with your technology remediating chemical warfare agent and/or other hazardous materials, 3) the option of leasing versus purchase, 4) the technology's rough order of magnitude cost, and 5) to address its lead time required for fabrication and delivery. Your submission should be electronically submitted to the below point of contact. Your email submission should be as a Word file attachment, Times New Roman (12 pitch), of no more than ten (10) pages (11x8.5) in length. Responses are requested no later than 13 March 2015.

The submitted information by interested parties will be considered by the Government in developing its overall acquisition approach. The submitted information will be held in a secure manner and will not be released for any reason outside of this acquisition.

The point of contact for this technical vendor conference is Mr. Brandon McKinnis, Army Contracting Command - Rock Island, Chemical Demilitarization Division, Rock Island, IL. His phone number is 309-782-7763; his email is brandon.e.mckinnis.civ@mail.mil.