SOURCES SOUGHT
A -- Future Combat System: Objective Force Indirect Fire (OFIF)
- Notice Date
- 6/11/2002
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- Contracting Office
- US Army ARDEC, AMSTA-AR-PC, Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey 07806-5000
- ZIP Code
- 07806-5000
- Solicitation Number
- DAAE30-02-R-0525
- Response Due
- 7/25/2002
- Point of Contact
- Lou Mondello, PCO, 973-724-3104
- E-Mail Address
-
Email your questions to Louis Mondello, Jr.
(mondello@pica.army.mil)
- Description
- A?Future Combat System: Objective Force Indirect Fire (OFIF) The U.S. Army Tank-Automotive and Armaments Command, Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center (TACOM-ARDEC), Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey is conducting a market survey of industry to identify sources that are capable of supplying prototype engineering and indirect fire concepts that could be available by 30 September 2003. The products developed will be parametric system engineering analyses of a lightweight armament system capable of providing lethal terminal effects on a wide range of targets at ranges of 2 kilometers minimum to 50 kilometers maximum. In addition to the system engineering analyses, concepts and prototype demonstrators will be developed and evaluated. Sources responding to this market survey must have established capabilities and processes to provide System Engineering efforts by generating draft requirements. This includes performing parametric analyses at the force level and below (down to the individual vehicle) to determine Measures of Effectiveness with which to evaluate the suitability of both the draft requirements and the system concepts. The effectiveness modeling should have the capability to address such factors as mobility, survivability, rate of fire, resupply capability (of both the system and the Army?s logistics train), reaction time, situational awareness, accuracy, reliability, availability, deployability (both strategic and tactical) and any other relevant factors which have a significant impact on the Objective Force-Indirect Fire (OFIF) concept?s ability to optimally and successfully perform its mission. The ability to generate complete OFIF system concepts is also necessary. The contractor must have the expertise and capability to evaluate and integrate such diverse technological areas as automotive; indirect fire armament; defensive armament; electronics; software; communications; automation; controls; fire extinguishing; environmental control; nuclear, biological and chemical survivability; acquisition hit avoidance; penetration avoidance; diagnostics; prognostics; electronic technical manuals; security and any other subsystem expertise applicable to accommodating and allocating space, weight, power, etc. in the OFIF concept. The contractor must have the capability to develop concepts in a common development environment (hardware, software and personnel) which allows concurrent evaluation of the concept layouts with respect to structural integrity, mobility, vehicle dynamics, component movement timelines, firing shock, blast overpressure, transportability, thermal conditions (heating and cooling from external and internal loads), human engineering/integration, shot lines, munitions, propellants, ignition sources, internal ballistics, external ballistics, and compartmentation adequacy. Throughout the effort, the contractor will be required to utilize and present virtual representations of the concepting and engineering analyses results to the Integrated Product Team members. One of the significant challenges will be to develop a system that can package all of the components in a volume and weight that is consistent with transport on a C-130 aircraft. As a result, the contractor must provide demonstration of their ability to generate, mature and fabricate systems that have similar constraints. The contractor must also provide details about the processes and management controls which will be used to achieve these capabilities. The responding contractor's must possess the capability to fabricate, integrate, test and evaluate prototype demonstrators. This includes facilities conducive to assembling breadboard and subsystem prototype hardware, electronics and software for maturing and proving out Technology Readiness Levels. The contractor must have the capability and experience to operate within Department of Defense and US Army statutory and regulatory limitations. Management functions must be provided which support Cost As an Independent Variable trade-offs, Risk assessment and management, cost and performance management and control and information security. The contractor should have a proven record of operating in an Integrated Product Development environment ? coordinating with governmental and non- governmental stakeholders in order to arrive at the best achievable compromise with respect to performance, schedule, cost and risk. The contractor should show how they would ramp up and execute the prescribed effort in a 12 month window from approval to proceed ? including the personnel, equipment, subcontracts, processes, manufacturing, test, evaluation, analyses, and requirements generation and documentation. Interested vendors are invited to identify their interest and capability to respond to the requirement by submitting supportive documentation. Documentation must clearly show evidence and ability to provide support described herein. This is not a request for proposals. Questions concerning above to be addressed to Peggy Schomp, SFAE-GCSS-CR-C, email: pschomp@pica.army.mil or Lou Mondello, mondello@pica.army.mil See Numbered Notes 25 & 26.
- Web Link
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US ARMY TACOM-ARDEC Procurement Network
(http://procnet.pica.army.mil/cbd/SRCSgt/061120020/061120020.htm)
- Record
- SN00091652-W 20020613/020611213252 (fbodaily.com)
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