SOURCES SOUGHT
59 -- Expendable Unattended Ground Sensors (E-UGS) Production Request for Information
- Notice Date
- 7/18/2011
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 334511
— Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, and Nautical System and Instrument Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- ACC-APG (C4ISR), HQ CECOM CONTRACTING CENTER, 6001 COMBAT DRIVE, ABERDEEN PROVING GROU, MD 21005-1846
- ZIP Code
- 21005-1846
- Solicitation Number
- W15P7T-APG-EUGS-1
- Response Due
- 8/15/2011
- Archive Date
- 10/14/2011
- Point of Contact
- Hung Le, 443-861-2289
- E-Mail Address
-
ACC-APG (C4ISR)
(hung.le@us.army.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The Department of Army, Product Manager-Robotic and Unmanned Sensors (PM-RUS), Unattended Ground Sensors (UGS) Program is requesting information from industry on a system that can meet the below objectives. This Request for Information (RFI) is for planning purposes only and shall not be considered as an Invitation for Bid, Request for Quotation, or Request for Proposal or as an obligation on the part of the Government to acquire any products or services. Your response to this RFI will be treated as information only. No entitlement to payment of direct or indirect costs or charges by the Government will arise as a result of contractor submission of responses to this announcement or the Government use of such information. The Government reserves the right to reject, in whole or part, any contractor input resulting from this request. This request does not constitute a solicitation for proposals or the authority to enter into negotiations to award a contract. No funds have been authorized, appropriated, or received for this effort. The information provided may be used by the Army in developing its acquisition strategy, Performance Work Statement, Statement of Objectives and/or Performance Based Specification(s). Parties responding to this RFI are responsible for adequately marking proprietary or competition sensitive information contained in their response. System Description: The intended system is a near real-time (detection to reporting is no more than 10 seconds) situational awareness sensor system that is simple to deploy, operate, and transport, with the capability to seismically detect and report human footsteps and moving vehicles. These reports can be transmitted over long ranges directly to a compact Basestation using an RF link. These reports can be used for a slew-to-cue capability of layered Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance assets. The intended user is an infantry company and below formations. System Hardware Objective: 1 System includes 1 receiver/base station, antenna, cabling and fifty-five (55) low-cost sensors. The sensor shall be constructed of rugged materials, watertight and corrosion-proof case able to be deployed and buried for security and stealth; only an antenna no more than 4 inches high needs to be above ground for proper operation. Production Objectives: Every 30 days after contract award 50 production ready systems shall be delivered to the Government until the total quantity of systems is delivered. Anticipated total delivery is 285 systems. Test Objectives: Electromagnetic Interference: The system shall meet MIL-STD-461E, RE 102 for Radiated Emissions and RS103 for Radiated Susceptibility. Environmental: The system shall be able to operate in and survive in both the Continental United States (CONUS) and the Central Command Area of Responsibility (CENTCOM AOR) and in particular in the Multi National Coalition-Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) under the climatic design type conditions Hot-Dry (A1) and Basic Cold Army as indicated in AR 70-38. High Temperature (operating): the system shall be fully functional without damage or degradation of performance while operating at temperatures of +49 deg C (120 deg F). High Temperature (storage): the EUGS shall be fully functional without damage or degradation of performance while stored at temperatures of +71 deg C (160 deg F). Low Temperature (operating): the system shall be fully functional without damage or degradation of performance while operating at temperatures of -32 deg C (-25 deg F). Low Temperature (storage): the system shall be fully functional without damage or degradation of performance while stored at temperatures of -33 deg C (-28 deg F). Rain: the system shall comply with MIL-STD-810G Method 506.5-1. Sand & Dust: the system shall comply with MIL-STD-810G Method 510.5. Immersion: the EUGS shall comply with MIL-STD-810G Method 512.5. Performance Objectives: RF Frequency: 800 to 900 MHz; below 800 MHz and above 900 MHz is not desirable frequency; detection radius is 15 meters around sensor with a probability of detections at 95% during normal human walking patterns and vehicles moving at 10 mph or greater in hard-packed soil; transmission distance-16km in radio line-of-site conditions without relays or repeaters when the base station antenna is no more than 6 ft above the ground and the sensor antenna is no more than 4 inches above the ground. Size, Weight and Power Objectives: The sensor shall be weigh not to exceed 8.5 oz. and utilize a power plant able to provide a functioning sensor that meets the performance objectives for 4-6 months depending on detections (150 transmissions per day). All material submitted in response to this RFI must be unclassified. Interested parties possessing the capacity to deliver products meeting the objectives outlined above are requested to provide a White Paper in electronic format describing the approach to produce, manage and meet the production/performance objectives established above and should address the following items: 1. Company Name, Contact Name, Position, Telephone, E-mail, Company URL 2. Comments with regard to the feasibility achieving the stated production/performance objectives within the time frames specified to include a supporting program schedule that represents a low risk approach to meeting the objectives outlined above. 3. Provide an assessment of the associated risks for the program and respective risk mitigation approaches to include potential throughput challenges, production test reject rates and challenges associated with resolution of the potential top three yield problems. 4. Submission of alternative strategies, suggestions for acceleration of system delivery, test, qualification, recommendations for economic ordering quantities, economical range quantity breaks, realistic schedules for production ramp up and surge quantities, and monthly production sustainment quantities are of significant interest to the Government. 5. Technical and management approach for executing the program including a detailed design; procurement of subsystems and components and the integration of sensor components; rigorous contractor test and integration data; supporting technical documentation; and, operation and sustainment considerations. 6. A Rough Order of Magnitude price estimates for system, spares and training. 7. Information about the current level of environmental qualification of the system being described as well as its predicted or actual reliability. 8. Information must include complete descriptions of existing products that will be available for delivery within the timeframe indicated above and must include sufficient documentation to support any claims that the system performance will meet the minimum performance capabilities contained herein. Such documentation may include system technical specifications, product brochures and related literature, performance test data, system drawings and/or photographs, or any other data to support the state of system development and or production readiness. 9. Outline of supply chain considerations with emphasis on any known long lead items that may adversely impact high rate production in an accelerated environment and strategies to overcome potential parts obsolescence problems. 10. Address projected monthly production capabilities to include critical subcontractor and vendor production capacity along with any limitations to ramping up to high rate monthly production and system integration considerations along with proposed resolutions to potential production impediments. 11. Corporate capabilities ( i.e., available facilities and assets to include existing production facilities, total available square footage to include additional floor space available for expansion; amount that could be dedicated to the program, quality management programs, manufacturing process controls and configuration management control systems) and company profile (i.e., company type, US or non-US ownership, Cage code, DUNs number, size and status as listed in the Central Contractor Registration). 12. Past and current relevant performance information. 13. Name, telephone number, fax number, street address and e-mail address for Program, Technical and Cost points of contact information. Responses are due on or before AUGUST 15, 2011. Technical questions and responses to this RFI are to be submitted via e-mail to Robert Sukiennik at robert.a.sukiennik.civ@mail.mil All documentation received from offerors will be kept confidential and will not be disclosed to anyone outside of official Government channels. Information received will be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. A determination by the Government not to compete this requirement based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. If no responses are received the U.S. Army will proceed with the intended purchase.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: ACC-APG (C4ISR) HQ CECOM CONTRACTING CENTER, 6001 COMBAT DRIVE ABERDEEN PROVING GROU MD
- Zip Code: 21005-1846
- Zip Code: 21005-1846
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