SOURCES SOUGHT
A -- Engineering Support For Indirect Fire Armament Division
- Notice Date
- 4/9/2008
- 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-0260
- Response Due
- 4/24/2008
- Archive Date
- 5/24/2008
- Point of Contact
- Robyn Mappa, Contract Specialist, (973)724-2005
- Description
- The U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command, Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center, Picatinny Arsenal, NJ 07806-5000, is conducting a Market Survey to identify potential sources that shall provide a wide variety of engineering and manufacturing services, technical management support, and integrated logistics support, program management support, engineering infrastructure support mission, performance support and materials and equipment. The forgoing will be provided to support concepts, designs, research, development and engineering, manufacturing and fielding for artillery systems, artillery armaments, mortar systems, Indirect fire weapon platforms and related supporting systems and technologies. The services will be provided in support of Weapons & Software Engineering Center (WSEC), Indirect Fire Armament Division, related and supporting elements of WSEC, RDECOM-ARDEC and TACOM as well as agencies, and activities supported by ARDEC. The services and activities involved may include, among other activities, engineering, design, test, and analysis and feasibility studies. The contractor may be required to conduct production and manufacturing technologies, processes and methods studies; materials investigations and evaluations, and fabricate or supply prototypes, test instrumentation, and hardware. The contractor shall be called upon to perform computer aided design using PRO-Engineer design tools, analysis, develop testing techniques, design and fabricate various types of tooling, develop special assembly and test equipment, generate quality assurance documentation and to prepare engineering drawings and technical data for design and/or manufacturing/production in accordance with MIL-STD-100. In addition to hardware, the contractor may be required to prepare CAD-E and manual layouts for electronic circuitry, printed and integrated circuit designs and determine functional electronic hardware and software specifications and perform other CAD-E analyses as may be required by individual task orders. The contractor shall perform technical reviews and evaluations of development, product improvement of production programs and provides written recommendations, assessments and finding as required by individual task orders. Conduct independent design reviews at system, subsystem or component level including all disciplines involved in armaments development, testing, and production and fielding. The contractor shall perform engineering or technical analyses of design, development and fielding issues including but not limited to systems, projectile interior and exterior ballistics, recoil systems and thermal management. It also includes concept and requirements definition and trade studies and evaluations of corrective actions aimed at solving test issues to include failure analyses and design changes proposed for government configuration control purposes. The contractor shall prepare, edit, modify and submit draft technical documents concerning development, production, and fielding plans. The contractor shall also provide baseline and cycle cost estimates utilizing GRANT and PERT networking charts to reflect schedules, cost, performance and risk analyses including financial impact.The contractor must have at least 5 years experience in evaluating and preparing proposed changes to the Technical Data Packages (TDPs), revise the original technical data In Accordance With (IAW) Engineering Change Proposals (ECPs) approved by the Government, and release associated Engineering Release Records (ERRs). Technical data changes include drawings, Quality Assurance Provisions (QAPs), packaging instructions, purchase descriptions and specification requirements. The contractor shall also prepare calculations, layouts, drawings, sketches, schematics, charts, or any other visual depiction or analytical tools necessary to effectively evaluate or recommend changes forresearch or development projects, or production. It also includes design orredesign studies to improve performance or reliability, or to correct known orpotential deficiencies. Results of the analyses and studies shall bedelivered to the Government (DI- MISC-80508). The contractor shall provide test and evaluation support to AID weapons andammunition programs to assure adequate and efficient testing by maximizingintegration of test requirements. The contractor will also interact with thegovernment test community as necessary and conduct independent on-sitemonitoring to assure compliance with requirements and will fully document theprocess utilizing Test and Evaluation Master Plans and Reports to furnishresults and data to the Test Integrating Work Group meetings. The contractor shall be required to design, analyze and fabricate test sample,models and prototypes as required by individual task orders including the useof rapid prototyping activities at ARDEC. The contractor shall also modifyexisting configurations and test models and design prototype of subsystems andcomponents, and build mock-ups of items as required. These modifications,prototypes, or mock-ups shall be fabricated to the extent required to conductvalid test and evaluation of design concepts, product improvements, materialchanges and conduct trial installations and testing of modifications whenrequired. The contractor shall be well verse in areas of simulation, modeling, anddesign analysis utilizing independently developed computer hardware andsoftware systems. The contractor must also be, well verse in the specificproduct development tools used at ARDEC such as PRO-Engineer, DADS, ANSYS,Mechanica, and in the use of ARDECs Integrated Data Environment (IDE) as anyfederal engineer. The contractor shall utilize a highly competent andexperienced staff with no less than 5 years artillery and indirect firesystems experience and be familiar with all aspects of armament designengineering, manufacturing and production technologies. The contractor shallalso be experienced in various test methodologies, state of the artengineering, design, development, automation, and quality assurancetechnologies, processes, engineering materials, equipment, techniques andprocedures. The contractor is required to supply manpower to conduct supporton site at RDECOM-ARDEC. All responsible/interested sources shall submit theircapabilities/qualification data and pertinent information electronically viaemail within fifteen (15) days of this notice.The Point of Contact for this action is Robyn Mappa, Contract Specialist,robyn.mappa@us.army.mil, AMSML-AQ-CA, (973) 724-2005. Response/questions shall be submitted by electronic email, ATTN: AnthonyFranchino, Chief of The Mortar Design Branch to anthony.franchino@us.army.mil. It is emphasized that this market survey notice is solely for the purposes ofobtaining information and identifying potential sources. All information isto be submitted at no cost or obligation to the Government and informationprovided will not be retuned. The Government reserves the right to reject, inwhole or in part, any private sector input as a result of this announcement.The Government is not obligated to notify respondents of the results of thisannouncement. It does not constitute a Request for Proposal (RFP) and is notto be construed as a commitment by the U. S. Government.
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