Modification to Cotton Conveyance System

The USDA Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS), Cotton and Tobacco Program (CTP) intends to contract with N.J. Malin & Associates, LLC, 15870 Midway Road, Addison, Texas 75001 for the modification of the existing cotton conditioning and conveyance system located in the Lamesa, Texas cotton classification office. Malin installed the cotton conditioning and conveyance system in Lamesa, Texas in 2012. The system consists of a cotton conditioning system, components and peripheral devices that are used to deliver cotton samples for cotton classification purposes. Components of the conveyor system include sample supply conveyor, loader workstations, workstation conveyors, HVI delivery and communication protocols and sample disposition conveyors. The system includes customized logical interfaces for PLCs and operational interfaces. Malin is the only vendor who can modify the customized logical interface for the PLCs and operation interfaces for the existing conveyance system.