Type : Bid Notification
Notice of Intent to Sole Source to DNV GL USA for determining the correlation between microstructure of a pipeline steel such as API 5L X65 and crack growth in the presence of hydrogen.In accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 13, Simplified Acquisition Procedures, the Department of Energy (DOE), National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) intends to negotiate and award a purchase order on a sole source basis to DNV GL USA for services to determine the hydrogen embrittlement susceptibility of different microstructural features in the pipeline steels. DNV GL is the only company that can measure in-situ crack growth rate in carbon steel during cathodic polarization in high pressure hydrogen. The catholically polarized samp...