SOURCES SOUGHT
10 -- LAV-ATA2 Upgrade
- Notice Date
- 6/3/2009
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Army, U. S. Army Materiel Command, U.S. Army TACOM Life Cycle Management Command (Warren), TACOM - Warren Acquisition Center, ATTN: AMSTA-AQ-AMB, E Eleven Mile Road, Warren, MI 48397-5000
- ZIP Code
- 48397-5000
- Solicitation Number
- W56HZV-N-A
- Response Due
- 7/10/2009
- Archive Date
- 9/8/2009
- Point of Contact
- Dan Marcantonio, (586) 574-9062<br />
- E-Mail Address
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TACOM - Warren Acquisition Center
(daniel.marcantonio@us.army.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Introduction: The Family of Light Armored Vehicles (FOLAV) has been in the USMC inventory since 1983. Since the initial fielding of the FOLAV there have been two major upgrades; the Service Life Extension Program LAV-A1 (SLEP) (1998-2002) and the LAV-A2 Survivability Upgrade (LAV A2 SU) (2006-2010). While these upgrades extended the primary systems service life of the FOLAV through 2025, the upgrades did not address the variant specific subsystem mission suites on the LAV-ATA2. Basic characteristics of the LAV platform are provided in Attachment 1 of this RFI. The LAV-ATA2s subsystem mission suite has become difficult to support and several subcomponents are obsolete. In fact, the M901A1 TOW has reached the point of ever increasing obsolescence limiting it to USMC inventory. As part of additional service life extension and fleet upgrade efforts, PM-LAV is evaluating improvements to the turret and heavy anti-armored weapon system. The specific purpose of this program is to improve the supportability and mission effectiveness of the LAV-ATA2 by providing the following mission suite upgrades: 1.An Anti-Tank weapon station with: "Multiple reload, and rapid capability "Ability to facilitate multiple target engagements in high intensive fights "An effective platform for Elevated TOW Systems (ETS), and offers the LAR Battalion a precision long-range capability to destroy the enemy "A second generation thermal sight and an advanced fire control system capable of firing the current and next generation heavy anti-armor missiles "Improved reliability, availability, and maintainability 2.Turret Trainers for the Operational Forces and float assets for each of the Maintenance Centers The following are specific objectives of this program: "Provide the LAV-AT mission suite upgrades initial operational capability by May 13, 2013 and full operational capability by August 3rd 2016 "Meet all threshold key performance parameters "Improve LAV-AT readiness by greater than 10% and reduce the operational and support cost by greater than 5% The deliverables/resultant products of this effort will be 115 LAV-AT modernized with the mission suite upgrades, nine LAV-AT Turret Trainers, two turrets float assets with all mission suite upgrades applied. In addition meet all milestones and provide supporting documentation required per SECNAV Instruction 5000.2D (unless otherwise directed by MARCORPSYSCOM ACPROG authority). It is anticipated that after receipt of information from the respondents of this RFI, the government will conduct a trade study followed by a downselect process to determine several leading turret and heavy anti-armored weapon system solution candidates that will undergo additional evaluation. The evaluation will include ergonomic assessments, spaceclaim and mounting studies, human factors studies, modeling and simulation. Turret and heavy anti-armored weapon system samples may also be acquired for physical measurement, performance evaluations, and testing. The proposed solutions will be evaluated against current and future mission profiles and the impact of the design on life cycle cost of the LAV system. Specific areas of evaluation for the turret and heavy anti-armored weapon system trade study and downselect include these requirements (T = threshold / O = Objective): "effectively acquire, engage, and destroy threat main battle tanks beyond the range of enemy tank main guns (T) "ability to destroy bunkers and concrete buildings that harbor threat (T) "allow for search and target acquisition while stationary (T) "allow for search and target acquisition on the move (O) "allow rapid transition from battlefield movement to target engagement (T) "acquire targets, fire, and reload while under armor protection (T) "acquire targets, fire, and reload from inside the vehicle (O) "fire from a short halt (T) "fire on the move (O) "acquire, engage, and destroy the enemy with its main armament in a 3600 field of fire (T) "acquire, engage, and destroy the enemy with its main armament, day or night, under obscured conditions of smoke, fog, haze and dust (T) "store and fire a minimum of 2 ready rounds in launcher and minimum of 14 stored rounds (T) "store and fire a minimum of 4 ready rounds (O) "capable of fire multiple missiles without reloading (T) "have an automatic loader or have the capability of being retro-fit with an automatic loader (O) "accommodate ground mounting when necessary (T) "fire current and next generation USMC inventory heavy anti-armor missiles (T) "provide fire and forget anti-tank weapon system capability (O) "training commonality for current and next generation heavy anti-armor missiles (O) "LAV-AT crew consists of four Marines (T) "Full mission capability with three personnel (O) "achieve a Probability of Hit of.75 at the maximum effective range of the weapon (T) "achieve a Probability of Hit of.9 at the maximum effective range of the weapon (O) "achieve compatibility with the LAV-AT secondary armament (M240E1, 7.62 mm machine gun pintle, with azimuth and elevation travel locks with a minimum 1800 arc traverse and accessible through the commanders hatch) (T) "have degraded capability to permit targets to be acquired and destroyed when the main power and /or hydraulic system of the LAV-AT have failed (O) Responses should include descriptions of sustainment characteristics such as reliability Mean Miles Between Failures (MMBF), Mean Time to Repair (MTTR), commonality with other systems, and in theater sustainment. Additional technical data will likely be requested from participating turret and heavy anti-armored weapon system manufacturers, including spaceclaim and interface drawings, prior test data, mass properties, and dynamic stiffness characteristics. This information will be applied to the validated modeling and simulation environment. Results of the evaluation will be shared with each potential supplier as may be appropriate. If you are interested in participating in this LAV upgrade effort, please respond by completing the Attachment 2 questionnaire and send it to: Dan Marcantonio Procurement Analyst daniel.marcantonio@us.army.mil 586-574-9062 Please feel free to include any additional product brochures, test results, technical data, etc. that you believe is relevant to the LAV application. Thank you in advance for your help on our trade study for the LAV turret and heavy anti-armored weapon system and we look forward to continued discussion on this project.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: TACOM - Warren Acquisition Center ATTN: AMSTA-AQ-AMB, E Eleven Mile Road Warren MI<br />
- Zip Code: 48397-5000<br />
- Zip Code: 48397-5000<br />
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