SOURCES SOUGHT
C -- Technical engineering support to the Precision Armaments Laboratory
- Notice Date
- 1/29/2008
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- Contracting Office
- US Army ARDEC, AMSTA-AR-PC, Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey 07806-5000
- ZIP Code
- 07806-5000
- Solicitation Number
- W15QKN-08-X-0250
- Response Due
- 2/29/2008
- Archive Date
- 3/30/2008
- Point of Contact
- Robert Pipchick, Contract Specialist, (973)724-3955
- E-Mail Address
-
Email your questions to Robert Pipchick
(robert.pipchick@us.army.mil)
- Description
- The U.S. Army ARDEC is conducting a Market Survey to identify potential sources that have the capability to provide technical engineering support to the Precision Armaments Laboratory (PAL). The PAL represents a new and unique mission essential facility for smart weapon system research and development. Its mission concentrates on the experimentation, development, and evaluation of sensors and seekers during adverse weather conditions, and represents a new DOD capability that was not available previously. Interested sources should provide information regarding experience and capabilities with regards to the following areas: 1) Specialized facility technical support for facility operation and/or modifications in areas such as: structure, target areas, automated laboratory elevators, instrumentation and interoperability; environmental aspects; mobile test capability; 2) The definition, identification and specification of equipment and hardware needs in such areas as: data control and recording equipment; sensor instrumentation; components, fixtures, instrumentation and/or facility modifications needed for customer test execution; and any other equipment or hardware that is required for automated facility control, data recording and meteorological systems. 3) The development, implementation and integration of facility and test software in such areas as: development plans; generating, troubleshooting and debugging software; providing for hardware integration and control; assuring total facility automated operability; and provide for data links and develop necessary data formats to adapt to customer needs. 4) The installation and integration of equipment and hardware to include: meteorological instrumentation; sensors and sensor instrumentation; data collection equipment; general facility equipment; facility control equipment; and facility and/or equipment/hardware repair. 5) The preparation and/or review of customer test plans to consider: equipment needs; safety concerns, unit under test preparation needs; equipment set-up; operation; calibration needs and techniques; data monitoring and collection. 6) The definition and development of operational procedures that are required in areas such as: facility operation; specialized equipment/instrumentation; and any test needs while considering the unique operational nature of the PAL. 7) The preparation and presentation of specialized training, in support of facility operation and/or technology understanding to support in-house and customer needs, to consider areas such as: equipment operation; software use, customization and modification; specific training in support of a specific test requirement or technology; training for field test conduct; meteorological aspects; preparing items for testing; data collection and reduction; and facility operation and maintenance. 8) Providing operational support to include on-site engineering support in areas such as: facility and/or test set-up; test equipment, unit under test, and meteorological instrumentation preparation, installation, integration, calibration and operation; test conduct; data collection set-up, integration and operation; target set-up; test tear down; and similar support for mobile/off-site test needs. 9) Performing and/or supporting test evaluation and reporting tasks such as: test data reduction, analysis and review and evaluation of test results with findings; conducting performance assessments. 10) Providing all necessary facility planning and staffing support for any aspect of current and future facility operations. Efforts may include scheduling, planning and costing exercises. 11) Providing facility marketing support through tasks in areas such as: advertising the utility and availability of the facility; preparing and presenting of technology papers and briefings; soliciting customers and generating new facility business. 12) Specific customer system development support through tasks such as: planning, basic research, proof-of-principle demonstration, prototype development, modeling and simulation, testing, and transition to production; development of algorithms and techniques to improve performance of sensors and sensor support systems. Interested sources are requested to provide the information listed above as well as information specifying knowledge, experience and past performance in: 1) research, development and engineering of gun-fired smart and precision guided munitions; 2) design, construction and operation of the Precision Armaments Laboratory; 3) adverse weather phenomenological effects to smart and precision guided munitions and the associated meteorological instrumentation and methods to collect research and development data; 4) sensor/seeker design, fabrication, test and evaluation; and 5) technical training and course development, as applied to task areas. Also, provide company name, address, telephone number, technical point of contact, size of business (small/large), and applicable brochures/ literature. Any files intended to be submitted, via the internet, that have been compressed using ZIP software must have their file extension, ???.zip???, changed to ???.zip-a??? in order to be accepted through our security firewalls. All responding sources shall submit, with details listed above, no later than 29 February 2008 to U.S. Army JM&L LCMC, Attn: AMSML-AQ-JA, Robert Pipchick, Contract Specialist, Building 10, Picatinny Arsenal, NJ 07806. Responses can also be submitted by email to robert.pipchick@us.army.mil. This is not a solicitation and does not obligate the government to issue a solicitation. No award will be made as a result of this market survey. All information is to be submitted at no cost or obligation to the government. This market survey is for planning purposes only, does not constitute a Request for Proposal, and is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government to issue an order or otherwise pay for the information solicited. Anything submitted in response to this market survey will not be returned to the sender. Respondents will not be notified of the results of the survey or results of information submitted, and telephone or email inquiries will not be honored. No further information is available from the contracting office.
- Web Link
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US ARMY TACOM-Picatinny Procurement Network
(http://procnet.pica.army.mil/dbi/Download/GoGetSourcesSought.cfm?SolNum=W15QKN-08-X-0250)
- Record
- SN01495009-W 20080131/080129230339 (fbodaily.com)
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