SOURCES SOUGHT
10 -- Market Survey for Next Generation Line Haul Systems.
- Notice Date
- 4/24/2006
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- Contracting Office
- TACOM - Warren Acquisition Center, ATTN: AMSTA-AQ-AMB, E Eleven Mile Road, Warren, MI 48397-5000
- ZIP Code
- 48397-5000
- Solicitation Number
- W56HZV-06-MKT-SRVY
- Response Due
- 5/22/2006
- Archive Date
- 7/21/2006
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- 21 Apr 06 Market Survey Next Generation Line Haul Systems 1. Next Generation Line Haul Systems. The Product Manager, Heavy Tactical Vehicles (PM HTV) located at the United States Army TACOM Life Cycle Management Command (TACOM) in Warren, Michigan is currently seeking?to identify sources that are capable of ma nufacturing vehicles for the?Next Generation Line Haul?Systems Family of Vehicles consisting of tractors, trucks, and trailers.? The vehicles that comprise the Next Generation Line Haul System-of Systems Family of Vehicles will possess capabilities that wi ll be similar but not necessarily limited to the requirements specified in the draft Army Technical Purchase Descriptions (ATPD) listed below: a. Draft ATPD 2362 - Truck Tractor, Line Haul, 58,000 LBS GVWR, 6X4 b. Draft ATPD 2364 - Truck Tractor, Light Equipment Transporter (LET), 74,000 LBS GVWR, 6X6 c. Draft ATPD 2365 - Semi-trailer, Flatbed, Multi-functional d. Draft ATPD 2363 - Load Handling System (LHS),?Line Haul f. In addition, the Next Generation Line Haul Family of Vehicles will also include the following variants: (1) Truck, Dump, Heavy, 6X6, 14 Cubic Yard (2) Light Equipment Utility Trailer, 12 ton, Pintle Towed (3) Semi-trailer, tanker, 7500 gallons (4) Semi-trailer, Lowbed, capable of hauling up to 40 tons These systems are planned to operate as a part of the Line Haul Systems and will have characteristics consistent with the Next Generation Line Haul Systems Family of Vehicles. 2. Line Haul Systems Requirements. The Next Generation Line Haul System-of-Systems acquisition strategy approach promises to increase the efficiency of line haul distribution and to address the needs of the Expeditionary Armys distribution-based logis tics system. The System of Systems approach links all the tractors and trailer components of the line haul system into one program allowing a single source to integrate these components to meet the system requirements. The Next Generation Line Haul Syste ms will share common goals, interfaces, and resources. Examples of the attributes the Army is seeking to be included in the family include: a. Distribution. Seeking features that provide for one man operation and organic self load/on load capabilities. b. Force Sustainment. Seeking features that provide low weight, commonality among the models, and growth potential. c. Mobility. Seeking features that provide ride quality at top end speeds over secondary roads and trails. d. Network Centricity. Seeking features that provide a single computer that operates vehicle components, vehicle data reporting and a wide range of military requirements, such as situational awareness, global positioning system, and vehicle tracking system. e. Operational range. Seeking features that increase powertrain efficiency. f. Reliability. Seeking features that improve ease of maintenance and diagnostics and prognostics, and provides wireless component health monitoring. g. Safety. Seeking features that improve lateral stability and crash protection. h. Survivability. Seeking features that provide cab protection that defeats the threat and has capability for a crew served weapon platform. 3. Market Survey Request. This market surveys purpose is to determine industry capability to providing the line haul systems tractors, trucks and trailers under a family concept. If interested, please furnish your detailed response to this market surv ey and technical information questionnaire. In addition, you may provide any supplemental information or commercial literature describing the human factors, engineering, safety, supportability, quality, cost, product availability or other information not specifically requested that you feel would be useful t o us. The Government does NOT wish to obtain any proprietary or otherwise protected documents as a result of this market survey. The Government may return such data or documents submitted that have proprietary or protected markings. This market research process is intended to obtain only commercially available information about contractors products. All portions of these enclosures are merely for market research purposes, subject to change at any time, are in no way binding on the Government and do not represent an established requirement. These enclosures are furnished for information purposes only with the understanding that the Government is under no obligation of any kind to proceed with an acquisition in any way related to or based upon the data set forth in these enclosures. The Government is not requesting any interested or potential suppliers to incur any expenses of any kind in connection with their review of the enclosures or their response to this survey. Nothing contained in this survey should be regarded as a basis upon which to seek payment, reimbursement or other consideration from the Government. Moreover, this letter is not intended as a solicitation of any proposal.? ? 4. Response Format. Electronic responses are required. It is requested that electronic responses be provided in any of the following formats: Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint or Adobe Acrobat. The maximum size of each e-mail mess age should be no more than three and one-half (3.5) megabytes. You may use multiple e-mail messages. The subject line must include the message number, (example: 1 of 3, 2 of 3, 3 of 3), and [Firms Name] response to Enhanced CHU . All interested firms, regardless of size, are encouraged to respond to this request for information. ? 5. Responses Due. Please submit electronic responses to this survey, comments to the Purchase Descriptions, as well as industry questions for clarification to: Ms. Jill Potts Lanham at (586) 574-5848 or by email at jill.p.lanham@tacom.army.mil. Survey responses should be furnished by?22 May 2006. 6. General Information. All questions for clarification and responses to those questions will be posted to PROC-NET (contracting.tacom.army.mil/ssn/sources.htm)? We appreciate your interest and thank you in advance for your participation in this market survey. ? 7. Market Survey Questionnaire. The below questions are intended to inform the Government of your intentions to participate in the Next Generation Line Haul Systems program and provide a snapshot of your capabilities to supply the line haul systems in a System-of-Systems program together with the logistics, engineering and support requirements. ? MARKET RESEARCH SURVEY QUESTIONNAIRE Next Generation Line Haul Systems Company Identification: Company Name: ________________________________________________________ Mailing Address: _________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ Company website:______________________________________________________ Point of Contact: _________________________________________________________ Phone Number: __________________________________________________________ Fax Number: ____________________________________________________________ Email: _________________________________________________________________ Location of Facilities:______________________________________________________ Business Profile: 1. What products/services does your company primarily manufacture? Please list the names and/or identifying numbers of the specific tractors, trucks and trailers you are describing in response to this questionnaire. 2. How long has your company been in business? 3. What business type is your company (large, small, small-disadvantaged, women-owned or 8(a)? Is your company located in a labor surplus or HUB-zone (See FAR Part 19 Small Business Programs)? 4. List your North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Codes, Commercial and Government Entity (CAGE) Code and Data Universal Numbering System (DUNS) number. Past Performance: 5. What experience?does your company have?with supplying the Government with these types of tractors, trucks and trailers you have described? Do you have any experience providing foreign governments with similar products? 6. Are your described tractors, trucks and semi-trailers bought and sold commercially? If so, how many years have they been on the market? Programmatic: 7. Describe your capability to Please provide your programmatic and technical strategy to supply a System of Systems Program for the Next Generation Line Haul Systems Family of Vehicles. Logistics: 8. Describe your Integrated Logistics Support?program such as personnel and maintenance?training, provisioning, and technical manual development. 9. What is your experience with Army repair parts provisioning and developing Army formatted Technical Manuals? 10. What type of warranty do you have?on your?commercial model(s)? Would a similar warranty be available for military models? ? Production Capability: 11. Does your company have the capability to supply the tractors and semi-trailers as a System-of-Systems 12. Would your company produce all the?tractors, trucks and trailers or would?a sub-contractor perform some or all of the work? 13. The tractors and trucks are required to have armor protection that affords a degree of ballistic protection to be determined by the Government for the operator and passenger. The ballistics protection to be installed on production vehicles includes a rmor parts determined to be hard to install after production and permanent mounting provisions designed to accept armor components installed as necessary in the field. How does this armor assembly requirement impact your production capability? 14. What is the production lead time to deliver test vehicles after contract award? 15. What is your?commercial model production rate per month? ? 16. What monthly production rate could be available for military vehicles? Engineering: 17. Does your company have the capability to submit data/drawings via electronic/digital data media? Can your company provide data through a web-based Advanced Collaborative Environment (ACE)? If yes, what hardware and software do you use? ? 18. How does your company conduct research and development? 19. What types of modeling and simulation data are available for the products you offer (i.e. CAD, dynamics model, etc)? What formats is this data available in? 20. What is your process for implementing?engineering changes and drawing changes?into?production? 21. Describe your discrepancy product recall program. Service Support: 22. How do you support your commercial systems? 23. Describe your?dealership maintenance capabilities. 24. Do you have any dealerships located Outside Continent of United States (OCONUS)?? If so, where are they located? Purchase Description: ? 25. Describe your capability to provide the vehicles described by the attached Purchase Descriptions? Your Please provide comments are welcome for any to the attached Purchase Descriptions paragraph. What would you add or delete from the Purchase Descri ptions to clarify or enhance the requirements or capabilities of the vehicles? ? ?? NOTE: The Government is not asking you to develop or provide drawings or develop any technical data in response to this market survey. Please send your completed survey questionnaire to Jill Potts Lanham at jill.p.lanham@tacom.army.mil. Companies responding to this survey are required to submit electronic responses. It is requested that electronic responses be provided in any of the fol lowing format: Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, or Adobe Acrobat. Th e maximum size of each e-mail message should be nor more than three and one-half (3.5) megabytes. You may use multiple e-mail messages. Questions regarding the market survey should be directed to Jill Potts Lanham at jill.p.lanham@tacom.army.mil or (586) 574-5848.
- Place of Performance
- Address: TACOM - Warren Acquisition Center ATTN: AMSTA-AQ-AMB, E Eleven Mile Road Warren MI
- Zip Code: 48397-5000
- Country: US
- Zip Code: 48397-5000
- Record
- SN01034051-W 20060426/060424220910 (fbodaily.com)
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