Particle Counters

This procurement is for the manufacture, assembly, testing, and delivery of up to eight-hundred (800) Particle Counters that can test Hydraulic, Phosphate Ester, and Navy Oil Analysis Program (NOAP) lab fluids.  The Particle Counter will be used to test and display the cleanliness levels for contamination utilizing bottle samples from aircraft brought to Naval labs or on-line sampling from Government Support Equipment (GSE) in hangars and GSE repair shops. The new Particle Counter will accept samples of fluid then analyze and show the results of the analysis. The Particle Counter is intended for indoor and outdoor use, on both ships and land.  The Particle Counter being procured in this effort shall replace all existing obsolete units currently in use throughout the Navy and Marine Corps fleet. Existing units have reached the end of their use life cycle and there is no form, fit and functional replacement. The program will replace the existing Particle Counters at all station sites.  These units will provide the fleet’s intermediate maintenance level technicians a mechanism for measuring particle contamination in fluids in support of the Navy Hydraulic Contamination Program. This contract will be a Fixed Price, Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) type contract with five (5) ordering periods, including a base period and four (4) production years.

Awarded contract N6833520D0031 to BECKMAN COULTER, INC. for 14916334.60 on 2020-07-16.