SOURCES SOUGHT
23 -- Ballistic Armor Kits
- Notice Date
- 12/30/2003
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Navy, United States Marine Corps, Marine Corps Systems Command, 2200 Lester Street, Quantico, VA, 22134-5010
- ZIP Code
- 22134-5010
- Solicitation Number
- Reference-Number-ARMOR-0001
- Response Due
- 1/9/2004
- Archive Date
- 1/9/2004
- Point of Contact
- Major S. J. Colcombe, Contract Officer, Phone please e-mail any questions or responses, Fax (703) 432-3527,
- E-Mail Address
-
colcombesj@mcsc.usmc.mil
- Description
- The Marine Corps Systems Command is seeking any commercial sources capable of manufacturing ballistic armor kit components, to include ballistic glass for windshields, produced for tactical wheeled vehicles. The armor shall provide ballistic protection for either the (1) High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV), (2) Medium Tactical Vehicle Replacement (MTVR), and/or (3) Logistics Vehicle System (LVS) fleet. Solicitations are for an active production line with a proven ballistic capability. Perimeter, underbody, and overhead protection components shall be mutually exclusive in their defensive capability and installation. The armor system shall meet the mission needs and environmental conditions required by operating forces and must provide technical commonality with the vehicle to include the following characteristics: The HMMWVA2 perimeter armor will withstand multiple (up to 3 rounds within one square foot) 7.62x39 M80 ball rounds fired from a one-meter standoff (threshold) with a 7.62 x 39 Armor Piercing (AP) rounds fired from a one hundred-meter offset (objective). The perimeter armor, to include armor plating for the 2 door cargo area, will withstand all fragmentation smaller than 1 inch from an Improvised Explosive Devise (IED) detonated at 4 meters with a ? pound of C4 (objective). Underbody plating will withstand a M67 blast (threshold) with a 4-pound mine blast (objective) while providing survivability for two or four seated vehicle occupants based on the vehicle configuration. Overhead protection will withstand a 7.62x39 M80 ball round fired from a 60-meter standoff and all fragmentation smaller than 1 inch from an IED detonated at 20 meters with a ? pound of C4. The crew cab and/or cargo body perimeter armor will be designed for the MTVR. The perimeter armor will withstand multiple (up to 3 rounds within one square foot) 7.62x39 M80 ball rounds fired from a one-meter standoff (threshold) with a 7.62 x 39 Armor Piercing (AP) rounds fired from a one hundred-meter offset (objective). The perimeter armor will withstand all fragmentation smaller than 1 inch from an Improvised Explosive Devise (IED) detonated at 4 meters with a ? pound of C4 (objective). The mine protection kit shall protect the crew and/or cargo space occupants from blast, fragments, and injurious acceleration effects of blast mines up to the equivalent of 12 pounds of composition B (threshold), 16 pounds of composition B (objective). The bottom fragmentation protection shall be equivalent to 0.5 inches of aluminum armor (threshold), rolled homogeneous armor (objective), in order to protect the crew from grenades, bomblets, and mortar rounds used as mines. Overhead protection for the crew compartment must stop 90% of artillery fragments (U.S. 155mm high energy (HE) round, M107 (Composition B)) fired from any elevation or azimuth and detonated 60 meters from the vehicle, with a 90% confidence level. The crew cab perimeter armor will be designed for the LVS. The perimeter armor will withstand multiple (up to 3 rounds within one square foot) 7.62x39 M80 ball rounds fired from a one-meter standoff (threshold) with a 7.62 x 39 Armor Piercing (AP) rounds fired from a one hundred-meter offset (objective). The perimeter armor will withstand all fragmentation smaller than 1 inch from an Improvised Explosive Devise (IED) detonated at 4 meters with a ? pound of C4 (objective). The mine protection kit shall protect the crew occupants from blast, fragments, and injurious acceleration effects of blast mines up to the equivalent of 12 pounds of composition B (threshold), 16 pounds of composition B (objective). The bottom fragmentation protection shall be equivalent to 0.5 inches of aluminum armor (threshold), rolled homogeneous armor (objective), in order to protect the crew from grenades, bomblets, and mortar rounds used as mines. Overhead protection for the crew compartment must stop 90% of artillery fragments (U.S. 155mm high energy (HE) round, M107 (Composition B)) fired from any elevation or azimuth and detonated 60 meters from the vehicle, with a 90% confidence level. Commercial firms, which have products with the above characteristics, are invited to submit the following: (1) Product brochures or marketing materials outlining specifications, to include a statement of capabilities and current test results, (2) current GSA contract information regarding unit; technical, operator, maintenance and parts manuals; warranty; Contract Logistics Support (CLS) and schedule pricing/or commercial catalog pricing based on 100, 500, 1000, and 5,000 units and (3) corporate history. As part of your response, please include information on delivery/lead time (units per month), commercial warranty terms and conditions, worldwide CLS capabilities and any current GSA or other Government Wide Agency Contracts available to order the supplies. Responses will be reviewed to identify firms potentially capable of fulfilling the Government?s requirements. This [sources sought / Request For Information (RFI)] is for planning purposes only and shall not be construed as a Request For Proposal or as an obligation on the part of the Government to acquire follow-on acquisition. The Government does not intend to award a contract on the basis of this RFI, or otherwise pay for the information requested. No entitlement to payment of direct or indirect costs or charges by the Government will arise as a result of submission of responses to this RFI and Government use of such information. The Government recognizes that proprietary data may be part of this effort. If so included, clearly mark such restricted or proprietary data and present it as an addendum to the non-restricted/non-proprietary information. NO SOLICITATION DOCUMENT EXISTS AT THIS TIME. Responses to this RFI shall be mailed or emailed to Major Colcombe. The mailing address is Marine Corps Systems Command, Attn: Major Colcombe, GTES, Bldg. 2200 Lester Street, Quantico, VA 22134-6050, the email address is colcombesj@mcsc.usmc.mil. All information must be received no later than January 9, 2004. For further information regarding this RFI or submission of materials, contact Major Colcombe, e-mail: colcombesj@mcsc.usmc.mil.
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