BUSCH VACUUM PUMPING SYSTEM

The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory, Pittsburgh, PA intends to issue a Sole Source Simplified Purchase Order to Rogers Machinery Company, Eugene, OR for a Busch Vacuum Pumping System to be used at our Albany Research Center, Albany, Or. The Vacuum System must include an MD Pneumatics vacuum booster; 1, Inlet filter assembly rated at 10 microns; 1, Busch NP0169 dry vacuum pump; 2, Magnetic X-line motor starters; 1, NEMA 12 junction box, prewired; 1, Busch Panda Blower model WV500 rotary positive displacement blower; and 1, prewired control panel mounted on the compressor skid. Control panel is in a NEMA 4/12 electrical enclosure to include the following - a main power switch, programmable controller, off/on motor control buttons, hour meter, audible and visual alarms with resets, system status indicators for power on, pump on, inter-stage temperature, cooling water temperature, discharge gas temparature, and 4-20 ma output for remote inlet vacuum monitoring. This is considered a sole source acquisition due to the pumping system is for use on an induction furnace located in Building 23ARC. This new system will help the Center meet two of its identified significant aspects for the Center's ISO 14001 Certification scheduled for completion by end od CY 2003. Standardization of service and parts with the other Busch compressors on Center will reduce cost in parts and maintenance learning curves. In order to standardize these systems for ease of maintenance, minimization of spares, and to drastically reduce the learning curve for successful operation; it is necessary to use the same vendor, Rogers Machinery. Purchase of another Busch product will allow the utiliztion of thousands of dollars worth of spares and because this equipment is so similar to the other Busch systems, it will drastically reduce the time it iwll take to get the new equipment into full service. Rogers Machinery is the only vendor available with the specific equipment that will allow for the integration of this apparatus into the Center's entire compressor maintenance system. This system is now utilized on very frequent basis by two cooperative projects, one of which has extremely tight deadlines and involves the alloying of platinum during the melting process. Cooperators travel from San Diego whenever these melts are made to verify the actual use of the platinum. The cooperators on this project is the number one industrial cooperator in ARC history. A breakdown in the primary melter, the vacuum induction furnace, is unacceptable. Rogers Machinery has a guarenteed 2 hour response service guarantee that is critical to ensuring that initial alloying is done in an acceptable time frame. No other vendor has the id able to come close to this response guarantee. No solicitation will be issued. Interested parties may submit a capability statement and pricing information for the requirement within 15 calendar days of publication of this notice, to be considered by the Government. Any interested party may contact Mr. Robert L. Mohn. ANY AND ALL INQUIRES ARE TO SUBMITTED BY FAX 9412-386-5770) OR E-MAIL (contact@example.gov).