SPECIAL NOTICE
99 -- Market Survey NAC-2007-01 Reliability and Safety Center Feasibility
- Notice Date
- 12/8/2006
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- Contracting Office
- TACOM - Warren Acquisition Center, ATTN: AMSTA-AQ-AMB, E Eleven Mile Road, Warren, MI 48397-5000
- ZIP Code
- 48397-5000
- Solicitation Number
- USA-SNOTE-061208-003
- Archive Date
- 3/8/2007
- Description
- DESCRIPTION OF INTENT: THIS IS A MARKET SURVEY REQUESTING INFORMATION IN SUPPORT OF THE FOLLOWING POTENTIAL REQUIREMENT. No contract will be awarded from this announcement. This is not a Request for Proposal (RFP) or an announcement of a forthcoming solicitation, nor is it a r equest seeking contractors to be placed on a solicitation mailing list. Response to this survey is voluntary and no reimbursement will be made for any costs associated with providing information in response to this market survey and any follow-on informat ion requests. Data submitted in response to this market survey will not be returned. No solicitation document exists at this time, and calls requesting a solicitation will not be answered. POTENTIAL REQUIREMENT: TARDEC is conducting a market survey to identify potential sources with the expertise necessary to manage and execute a program/center in modeling and simulation(M&S) to research and develop methodologies which will predict the reliability of military gro und vehicles during both the design stage and throughout its life-cycle. The Army needs the capability to rapidly analyze the design of systems of varying complexity in order to predict and model the multi-physics reliability for the system during its pro jected life.?The Government is looking for methodology and modeling tools (proposed or developed) to accurately predict reliability utilizing multi-physics and multi-scale methodologies. Responses must address Issues of uncertainty or variability in manuf acturing, materials, maintenance history, storage and usage history as it relates to the following objectives. Each response is expected to demonstrate and clearly document prior experience, especially industry and government experience, for?at least 5 of the objectives listed.? Responses that do not clearly address at least 5 or more of the objectives will not be considered.? The objectives are as follows: (1) Multi-scale Metal Component Reliability Objective: Demonstrate expertise and knowledge of multi-scale internal state variable models that include statistical variations from the material microstructure of lightweight alloys like magnesium, aluminum, and ultra-light high strength steel, which wi ll also incorporate studies of fatigue and fracture initiation and growth. (2) Multi-scale Biomechanics Reliability Model Objective: Demonstrate expertise to provide a whole body finite element mesh in which each system (muscle, tendon/ligaments, organs, etc) is independently meshed and then integrated systems together. The model will not only bridge the various systems but the multi-scale aspects of each system, for example, tendon, muscle, brain, cartilage, skin, and bone, and input the results into a finite element code for analysis of high impact testing. Another goal is to implement the results into the development of biologically inspired engineering materials. (3) Structural Composite Design and Reliability Objective: Demonstrate expertise to provide models for nanoparticle-reinforced composite systems for structural and electrical applications that will predict reliability of same (4) Joint/fastener and Systems Reliability Objective: Demonstrate expertise to provide models to determine the reliability of joint components and of corresponding systems for structural applications (5) Simulation-Based Design Optimization and Reliability Assessment Objective: Demonstrate expertise to provide simulation-based design optimization/reliability assessment methods and tools that can capitalize on multi-scale physics-based material models for probabilistic design of lightweight automotive structures. (6) Metallic Component & System Integration Objective: Demonstrate expertise to provide math-based, experimentally-validated powder compaction and sinter models. (7) Human & Systems Integration Objective: Demonstrate expertise to provide or propose new reliability-based ergonomicall y evaluated vehicular components incorporating CAD/CAM/CAE Virtual Development Design Tools, Body Design and Engineering, Design Optimization, and Human Factors with weighted factors related to seating, vision and visibility, comfort, mobility, telematic s and uncertainty. (8) High Performance Computing Incorporating Multi-scale, Multilevel, Physics-Based Reliability Models (computational efficiency) Objective: Demonstrate expertise to develop methods for improved computational efficiency in the multidisciplinary design optimizations. These should make use of High Performance Computing (HPC). (9) Cyber infrastructure Objective: Demonstrate expertise to develop cyber infrastructure supporting the development and utilization of multi-scale, multilevel, multidisciplinary design optimizations and reliability assessment. (10) Sensor and Networking for Field Applications Objective: Demonstrate expertise to develop an integrated system-of-systems approach to create a reliable, efficient, and transparent in-field communications system comprising power-supply, sensors and networks, necessary to provide an immediately availabl e multi-node data query, data analysis and data transfer system for vehicles. RESPONSES DUE Responses to the Market Survey are due by January 8, 2007 and should be no more than 25 pages of text. RESPONSE FORMAT(S): ELECTRONIC: Electronic responses are preferred and strongly encouraged. It is requested that electronic responses be provided in any of the following formats: Microsoft word, Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Power Point. The maximum size of each e-mail sh ould be not more than three and one-half (3.5) megabytes. You may use multiple e-mail messages. The subject line must include message 1 of 3, 2 of 3, 3 of 3 etc., as well as [Organization Name]. All interested entities *e.g. companies, non-profit organi zations, and academic institutes), regardless of size, are encouraged to respond to this request for information. Please submit electronic responses and any questions prior to full response to Thomas Udvare via email at udvaret@tacom.army.mil. Please for mat the subject line of the response email as follows; [Organization Name] response to NAC-2007-01. GENERAL INFORMATION: The Government appreciates the time and effort taken to respond to this survey.? The Government acknowledges its obligations under 18 U.S.C. ?1905 to protect information qualifying as CONFIDENTIAL under this statute. ?Pursuant to thi s statute, the Government is willing to accept any trade secret or confidential restrictions placed on qualifying data forwarded in response to the survey questions and to protect it from unauthorized disclosure subject to the following:?? 1. Clearly and conspicuously mark qualifying data as trade secret or confidential with the restrictive legend (all caps) CONFIDENTIAL with any explanatory text, so that the Government is clearly notified of what data needs to be appropriately protec ted.? 2. In marking such data, please take care to mark only those portions of the data or materials that are truly trade secret or confidential (over breadth in marking inappropriate data as CONFIDENTIAL may diminish or eliminate the usefulness of your response - see item 6 below).?Use circling, underscoring, highlighting or any other appropriate means to indicate those portions of a single page which are to be protected 3. The Government is not obligated to protect unmarked data. Additionally, marked data that is already in the public domain or in the possession of the Government or third parties, or is afterward placed into the public domain by the owner or another party through no fault of the Government will not be protected once in the public domain.? Data already in the possession of the Government will be protected in accordance with the Government's rights in the data, 4. Confidential data transmitted electronically, whether by ph ysical media or not, whether by the respondent or by the government, shall contain any restrictive legend, with any explanatory text, on both the cover of the transmittal e-mail and at the beginning of the file itself. ?Where appropriate for portions only of an electronic file, use the restrictive legends CONFIDENTIAL DATA BEGINS: and CONFIDENTIAL PORTION ENDS. 5. In any reproductions of technical data or any portions thereof subject to asserted restrictions, the government shall also reproduce the asserted restriction legend and any explanatory text. 6. The Government sometimes uses support contractors in evaluating responses. Consequently, responses that contain confidential information may receive only limited or no consideration since the Respondents marking of data as Confidential will prec lude disclosure of same outside the Government and therefore will preclude disclosure to these support contractors assisting the evaluation effort.
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