SOURCES SOUGHT
23 -- Marine Personnel Carrier, Request for Information
- Notice Date
- 2/17/2011
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 336992
— Military Armored Vehicle, Tank, and Tank Component Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- TACOM Contracting Center (TACOM-CC), ATTN: AMSTA-AQ-AMB, E Eleven Mile Road, Warren, MI 48397-5000
- ZIP Code
- 48397-5000
- Solicitation Number
- W56HZV-MPC-RFI
- Response Due
- 4/22/2011
- Archive Date
- 6/21/2011
- Point of Contact
- Michael P. Suhy, 586-282-9030
- E-Mail Address
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TACOM Contracting Center (TACOM-CC)
(michael.suhy@us.army.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Market Research for the USMC Marine Personnel Carrier (MPC) Acquisition Program: Request for Information. The requesting contracting command is: U.S. Army Contracting Command - Warren 6501 E. 11 Mile Road ATTN: CCTA-AHXB (MS 501) Warren, MI 48397-5000 1.Message to Industry: The Marine Corps will be taking a collaborative approach with industry in order to produce a more affordable amphibious capability. Interested partners should look at the Marine Corps amphibious capability requirements for an Amphibious Combat Vehicle (ACV), Marine Personnel Carrier (MPC), and Amphibious Assault Vehicle (AAV) legacy upgrades as discussed in this and the other amphibious RFIs as a Family of Systems. The Marine Corps would like to see industry focus on affordability by designing / proposing solutions that will reduce the operational and support costs over the life cycle and consider such things as commonality, modularity of proposed solutions and interoperability among System of Systems. These solutions should take into consideration emerging technologies and provide for growth over the next 15 years. Additionally, the Marine Corps is interested in hearing from industry strategies they would use to lower their procurement costs for their proposed solutions. 2.Request for Information: The Marine Corps is exploring streamlined methodologies and reviewing the candidate maturity levels available to support acceleration of the Marine Personnel Carrier (MPC) program. The MPC will complement the Assault Amphibious Vehicle (AAV) and its replacement within the Assault Amphibian (AA) Battalion by providing a modern armored personnel carrier capability and capacity to the Ground Combat Element of the Marine Air Ground Task Force. 3.Reference and Appendices: The annex A for the MPC is attached to this notice. Further information is contained on a Classified Annex that must be requested specifically by the contractor from either the Point of Contact (POC) or the Procurement Contracting Officer listed at the end of this notice. The contractor will be required to have the proper security clearance to obtain access to the Classified Annex. 4.Proprietary Information: The United States Government (USG) acknowledges its obligations under Federal Acquisition Regulation (18 U.S.C 1905) to protect confidential information provided to the Government. Pursuant to this statute, the USG is willing to accept any trade secrets or proprietary restrictions placed upon qualifying data forwarded in response to this RFI and to protect such information from unauthorized disclosure, subject to the following: Qualifying data must be clearly marked PROPRIETARY and be accompanied by an explanatory text so that the Government is clearly notified as to exactly what data so qualifies. Mark only data that is truly confidential. Do not mark data that is already in the public domain or is already in the possession of the USG or third parties on an unclassified basis. Proprietary data transmitted electronically must have the PROPRIETARY legend on both the cover and the transmittal e-mail, as well as at the beginning of the file. Proprietary information contained within the correspondence shall use the legends: "PROPRIETARY PORTION BEGINS" and "PROPRIETARY PORTION ENDS." 5.Disclaimer: The USG is not obligated to protect unmarked data. Nor is the Government obligated to like data in possession of third parties or for data which is afterwards placed in the public domain by the contractor or by third parties through no fault of the USG. Should the USG need to reproduce the protected data for distribution purposes between Government offices, all Government personnel provided with protected information will, prior to receiving copies of such information, sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement, which alerts personnel of the confidential nature of the information being provided, as well as the seriousness of the Government's obligations to protect such information. 6.Clarification of this Action: The objective of this RFI is to assess industry's ability to provide a materiel solution within an accelerated acquisition schedule while meeting the current system requirements at an affordable cost. The Marine Corps has built and tested a technology demonstrator in order to develop, refine, and validate requirements and costs. Work with the demonstrator has affirmed the Service decision to pursue the MPC requirement set as an advanced generation 8x8 armored personnel carrier. The USMC wants to determine the technical and manufacturing maturity of candidate systems that provide the capabilities desired in the MPC. The Marine Corps is planning an aggressive, competitive acquisition approach with the intent to field an MPC fleet as rapidly as possible. With this in mind, the Army Contracting Command is conducting a Request For Information (RFI) on behalf of the Program Executive Office Land Systems (PEO LS) and USMC Combat Development and Integration (CD&I) to obtain industry input to support an accelerated acquisition of the fleet. It is desired that respondents identify those mature materiel solutions that meet the MPC capabilities, as well as the cost and timeframe for providing those solutions. Please include the following information in your response: (1)Assessment of Baseline Solution: The attached Annex A is the current MPC requirement list. For this RFI, the Baseline MPC is defined as the system as it could be currently produced. The desired MPC is defined as the system that best meets the requirements as presented in Annex A. Respondents are requested to assess their Baseline MPC candidate(s) against the Annex A requirements and present a description of how the candidate(s) meets or does not meet each of the tiered requirements. For each requirement, please present an assessment of the maturity of the proposed solution. Please also present a baseline program schedule to include the following milestones: A.)The date (After Receipt of Order (ARO)) when four of the Baseline MPC personnel variants could be delivered for competitive testing. B.)The date (ARO) when the first initial production of Baseline MPC personnel variants could be delivered for Production Verification Testing (PVT). C.)The date (ARO) when the first 72 Baseline MPC vehicles and associated logistics products could be delivered for fielding. For the purpose of this RFI, assume that the start date is 1 October 2011. Please provide a ROM estimate of the program costs to attain each milestone. In addition, please provide the unit cost estimate for the Baseline MPC with a recommended delivery schedule which will yield the most favorable unit cost. (2) Approach for Pre-Planned Product Improvements (P3I): For each of the tiered requirements that the candidate system(s) fails to meet, describe if and how that requirement can be obtained to achieve the Desired MPC system. Please present the development time line to attain each additional requirement, as well as a ROM for the cost of that effort and the respective unit cost increase for each upgrade. Please provide the associated timing for the fielding of each P3I. (3) Growth Potential: The USMC MPC fleet once fielded will have an expected service life of at least 25 years. Respondents are requested to describe where design margin exists in the Baseline MPC to allow specific parameters, such as weight and protection levels to increase and assess the impact on performance (4) Identification of affordability trade space: Respondents are requested to identify those requirements where additional trade space can affect the affordability of both the baseline or Desired MPC systems. This is to include suggesting both increased trade space within a specific requirement as well as suggested changes to the production schedule. (5) ROM Cost estimates: Respondents are requested to present their cost estimate in FY11 dollars. Point(s) of Contact: Information pertaining to the performance specifications or for access to the Classified Annex will be provided separately by request to the Point of Contract listed below. Michael P. Suhy Thomas Sargee Contract Specialist Procurement Contracting Officer Michael.suhy@us.army.mil Thomas.sargee@us.army.mil Phone: 586-282-9030 Phone: 586-282-9163 RFI Schedule (all dates reflect close of business) 18 Feb 2011- Release RFI 22 Apr 2011- Industry responses due by COB
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- Place of Performance
- Address: Army Contracting Command - Warren ATTN: CCTA-AHXB, E Eleven Mile Road Warren MI
- Zip Code: 48397-5000
- Zip Code: 48397-5000
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