Description
The Department of Veterans Affairs is seeking a contractor to provide combustion analysis and tuning services for three Nebraska D-Type Watertube Boilers at the James H. Quillen VA Medical Center in Mountain Home, TN. The contractor will be required to verify natural gas and fuel oil pressure, provide flue gas combustion analysis, and optimize air-fuel combustion curves for each boiler. The contract period will be from December 15, 2025, to December 14, 2026. The contractor must have at least 5 years of experience in combustion tuning for high-pressure steam boilers and at least 3 years of experience with AutoFlame Mk8 MM controllers.
• The contractor must provide all necessary test equipment and have at least 5 years of experience operating the equipment.
• The contractor's test equipment must be calibrated within the last year.
• The contractor must optimize the air-fuel combustion curves for each boiler and provide flue gas analysis reports.
• The contractor must ensure that excess air is tuned for optimum efficiency and that no visible smoke is present under all operating conditions.