H344--Boiler Plant Safety Device Testing

The VA NJ HealthCare System (VANJHCS) requires an annual service contract to calibrate all pressure gauges, boiler and plant controls and instrumentation (recorders and transmitters). Boiler Plant Safety Device maintenance, inspection, testing and calibration. Boiler Combustion / Emissions testing and tuning and Emergency Repair Service on nine (9) Cleaver Brooks Fire Tube Boilers and Auxiliary Equipment that provide steam to the East Orange and the Lyons VA Medical Center. The contractor shall perform annual and semi-annual calibration of all pressure gauges, boiler and plant controls, controllers, transmitters, recorders and all other instrumentation contained within the Boiler Plant IAW VA Directive 1810. The contractor shall perform annual and semi-annual Boiler and Plant Safety Device testing on all nine (9) of the boilers and associated plant equipment at the VANJHCS Lyons and East Orange Campuses. The contractor shall also perform semi-annual Boiler Combustion Emissions Tuning of all nine (9) of the boilers. All testing will be as specified in VHA Directive 1810 and the VHA Boiler Safety Device Testing Manual (4th Edition) and where not defined will be IAW good engineering and proven past practice accepted by industry standards and equipment manufactures. List of instrumentation and controls to be inspected and calibrated: Steam flow transmitters (all). Steam flow recorders/computer readout. Flue gas oxygen sampling, analyzing, and recorder/computer readout. Boiler and economizer stack temperature transmitters and recorder/computer readout. Master steam pressure and combustion controllers. Boiler water level controllers. Feedwater deaerator and condensate storage tank water level controllers including overflow. All pressure and temperature devices, sensors and transmitters. All signal processing and readout devices.

Division 01 -	General Requirements, Quality Control, Testing and Inspecting Services.
Division 23 -	Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning (HVAC), Heating Boilers.
Division 42 -	Process Heating, Cooling, and Drying Equipment, Process Boilers.