SOURCES SOUGHT
99 -- Tower Maintenance
- Notice Date
- 4/5/2010
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- Contracting Office
- US Army, Army Contracting Command, Joint Munitions and Lethality (JM&L) Contracting Center, Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey 07806-5000
- ZIP Code
- 07806-5000
- Solicitation Number
- W15QKN-10-X-0451
- Response Due
- 4/29/2010
- Archive Date
- 5/29/2010
- Point of Contact
- Yasmine Clanton, Contract Specialist, (973)724-4349
- E-Mail Address
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Yasmine Clanton
(yasmine.clanton@us.army.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The Army Contracting Command, Joint Munitions & Lethality Contracting Center, Joint Armaments Center, on behalf of the US Army Armament Research Development and Engineering Center (ARDEC), Picatinny Arsenal, NJ 07806-5000, is conducting market research to seek potential businesses who have the capability to provide technical engineering support through individual tasks to the Precision Armaments Laboratory (PAL). The PAL represents a new and unique mission essential facility for smart weapon system research and development. This 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. The contractor shall provide services and support in the following required task 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.The Government is contemplating a Requirements Type contract with a basic award and five, one year options. Interested businesses are encouraged to submit the following information specifying knowledge, experience and past performance in: 1) above listed task area capability descriptions; as well as 2) research, development and engineering of gun-fired smart and precision guided munitions; 3) design, construction and operation of the Precision Armaments Laboratory; 4) adverse weather phenomenological effects to smart and precision guided munitions and the associated meteorological instrumentation and methods to collect research and development data; 5) sensor/seeker design, fabrication, test and evaluation; and 6) technical training and course development, as applied to required task areas. This is a market survey, limited to 25 pages, not a pre solicitation notice. All interested and potential firms must be registered in CCR, and current firms must update once a year to maintain active status. Please visit the CCR website to register and update, https://www.bpn.gov/ccr/default.aspx. TELEPHONE INQUIRIES WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. The Government will accept written questions by email only. In addition, interested firms are encouraged to submit their capabilities / qualification data No LATER THAN April 29, 2010. Submittals and questions should be directed to the following point of contact: US Army Contracting Command, Attn. Yasmine Clanton, CCJM-JA, Bldg. 10, Picatinny, NJ 07806-5000, email yasmine.clanton@us.army.mil. This is a Sources Sought Notice and submissions will be used for informational and planning purposes only. This notice does not constitute a formal Request for Proposal (RFP), nor is the government obligated to issue an RFP. In addition, the Government does not intend to pay for any information provided under this notice. Respondents will not be notified of the results of the evaluation of the information submitted.
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