Road Wheel Automated Adhesive Spray System

**Notice to interested parties: THIS IS NOT A SOLICITATION. The intention of this notice is to inform of an upcoming solicitation and seek capability statements from interested parties. This is not a guarantee that a solicitation will be issued for this requirement. Responses are NOT requested at this time. This is a request from the commercial market in support for the requirement.**Rubber Products Division, Bldg. 493, at RRAD performs the remanufacture of road wheels for tracked combat vehicles.  The road wheel preparation process line in Bldg. 493 currently consist of multiple workstations and process equipment that prepare tracked vehicle road wheels for new rubber installation.  These stations include:  loading conveyor from source pallet, stamping production information, sandblasting road wheel outer surface, primer application to road wheel rolling surface, primer drying station, spray adhesive application to road wheel rolling surface, adhesive drying application, and

unloading and pallet stacking.  The acceptable material (road wheel) is taken from the end of the legacy manual conveyor line and then manually placed on a pallet to be transported to other locations in the Rubber Products Division in Bldg. 493.  Depending on the Road Wheel type it is transported to the proper Road Wheel Rubber Molding machine to continue the refurbishment process for completion as a new remanufactured road wheel.Acquisition of a new Road Wheel Automated Adhesive System is required to provide Rubber Products Division with the latest state of the art capability by providing safe and efficient processes needed for road wheel remanufacturing to support RRAD workload requirement.  The proposed Road Wheel Automated Adhesive System must be able to continuously process Road Wheels at a rate of 200 every 10 hours.  During peak workload, RRAD may work 24/7, so the proposed system must be able to sustain a production capability of approximately 480 Road Wheels per day.This sources sought is to seek commercial market support in developing, engineering, installing a new turnkey wheel prep line. The line will include monocart floor mounted conveyors, moving conveyors, robotic automation, abrasive cleaning, painting capabilities to rolling surface of the wheels, and fume duct installation, etc. System will be controlled through HMI. The system is expected to be a complete turnkey system.Provide interest, capability material and any questions pertaining to this requirement to Travis Peterson at travis.n.peterson2.civ@army.mil.Delivery will be FOB destination, Red River Army Depot, Texarkana, TX 75507-5000.Request for offers will be issued on or about June 28, 2022.