DWA Skeleton Bay Draft Tube Bulkhead JA Fully Signed 1 Redacted

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Justification & Approval for Other than Full and Open Competition (Brand Name) 1 CONTRACTING AGENCY: US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Walla Walla District (CENWW-CT) 201 North 3rd, Walla Walla, WA 99362. 2 DESCRIPTION OF ACTION: The Dworshak Skeleton Bay Draft Tube Bulkhead Rehabilitation project requires a brand name justification and approval (J&A) for ingredients within the vinyl paint formula as outlined in the Department of Defense (DoD) Unified Facilities Guide Specifications (UFGS), UFGS 09 97 02 Painting: Hydraulic Structures. The identified ingredients that make up this vinyl paint system are the only ones tested and approved by USACE Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (CERL) for use as protective coating on underwater steel structures.
Although the vinyl paint system can be procured from multiple manufacturers, certain ingredients within the paint system are limited to the brand name options from the specific manufacturers listed below. Decades of performance testing indicates altering the paint formulation to use options other than the specific brand name ingredients would result in an unacceptably inferior protective coating system. The ingredients listed in part 3 below mitigate the risk of an inferior protective coating and any unforeseeable costs including repairs and future maintenance and maintain the integrity of the premier protective coating system with decades of testing and approved by the USACE Engineer Research and Development Center’s (ERDC) Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (CERL).
These ingredients make up a small portion of the overall paint system. The specific ingredients required in the paint formulas are estimated at 3 DESCRIPTION OF ITEMS: Ingredients for Special Paint Formulas as outlined in UFGS 09 97 02 include the items in the following table. Ingredient
Titanium
Dioxide
Titanium
Dioxide
Titanium
Dioxide
Suspending
Agent E
Suspending
Agent F

Product
Kronos 2160

Supplier
Kronos, Inc.

Kronos 2101

Kronos, Inc.

Ti-Pure 960

E.I. Dupont DeNemours and Co., Inc.

MPA-14

Elementis Specialties

Bentone 27

Elementis Specialties

Vinyl Resin,
Type 3
Vinyl Resin,
Type 4
Silane B
Silane B

Vinnol H 15/50

Wacker Chemie AG

Vinnol H 15/45
M,
Silane A-1120
Silane Z-6020

Wacker Chemie AG
Momentive Performance Materials Inc.
Dow Corning Corporation

4 AUTHORITY CITED: FAR 6.302-1; 10 U.S.C. 3204(a)(1)

REASON FOR AUTHORITY CITED:

a. BACKGROUND: The army Corps of Engineers developed formulations