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FBO DAILY ISSUE OF SEPTEMBER 21, 2011 FBO #3588
SOURCES SOUGHT

A -- REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI) ONLY FOR PLANNING PURPOSES

Notice Date

9/19/2011
 

Notice Type

Sources Sought
 

NAICS

541712 — Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)
 

Contracting Office

ACC-RSA - (Missile), ATTN: AMSAM-AC, Building 5303, Martin Road, Redstone Arsenal, AL 35898-5280
 

ZIP Code

35898-5280
 

Solicitation Number

W31P4Q-11-R-UAS1
 

Response Due

10/21/2011
 

Archive Date

12/20/2011
 

Point of Contact

Andy Eiermann, 256-313-0097
 

E-Mail Address

ACC-RSA - (Missile)
(andy.eiermann@us.army.mil)
 

Small Business Set-Aside

N/A
 

Description

This notice serves as market research in accordance with FAR Part 10. Responses to this notice are not offers and cannot be accepted by the Government to form a binding contract. Respondents are solely responsible for all expenses associated with responding to this RFI. The Government is in need of information on potential sources that could provide the necessary technical/engineering skills, facilities, and personnel to support the Aviation and Missile Research, Development, and Engineering Center's System Simulation and Development Directorate's (SSDD) missile and Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) aerodynamic analysis, modeling and simulation, prototype hardware design/fabrication, technology integration, and ground and flight testing support. The purpose of this RFI is to gain knowledge of interest, capabilities, and qualifications of vendors who can successfully support this requirement as a prime contractor. The type of solicitation that will be issued will depend upon the responses to this sources sought synopsis and other information available to the Government. Responses to this notice will be used as part of the information gathered as market research that will be used to develop the acquisition strategy to satisfy this potential requirement. Responses will only be accepted from those firms that are interested in being a prime contractor. THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR competitive PROPOSALS AND NO CONTRACT WILL BE AWARDED FROM THIS SOURCES SOUGHT SYNOPSIS. The Government has not formalized an acquisition strategy, there is no solicitation, and no other information is available at this time. Other than responses to this request for information, no other responses or inquiries will be accepted. Questions regarding the scope of work or acquisition strategy will not be accepted at this time. In order to protect the procurement integrity of any future procurement, if any, that may arise from this announcement, information regarding the technical point of contact will not be given and no appointments for presentations will be made. A determination by the Government not to compete this action based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Draft synopsis of technical requirement: The AMRDEC SSDD is interested in receiving information on the capability of industry to support advanced technologies with initial prototypes in hardware and system simulations. Capabilities include detailed design, analysis, prototype fabrication, technology assessments and integration, system simulation, system performance, and testing of advanced missile and UAS technologies. These capabilities are essential to the success of the SSDD mission and are either unavailable within the SSDD's functional areas or shortages of in-house personnel necessitate additional support in this specific functional area. The AMRDEC SSDD is seeking companies that are capable of performing the work outlined in the description above, and can demonstrate their ability to team with the Army UAS industry primes for the MQ-1C (Gray Eagle UAS), MQ-5B (Hunter UAS), RQ-7B (Shadow UAS), RQ-11 (Raven UAS), and providing samples of all up-to-date (current) associate contractor agreements (ACA's), Non Disclosure Agreements and/or Proprietary Information Agreements related to this type of work. FOREIGN PARTICIPATION WILL NOT BE ALLOWED AT THE PRIME OR SUBCONTRACT LEVEL. If you believe your firm possesses the technical capability, financial, facility, equipment and personnel resources, and relevant experience/past performance to perform the type of work specified above as a prime contractor, please submit the following information: 1. Company name and mailing address. 2. Point of contact (name, telephone number, and e-mail address). 3. Socio-economic status under the above stated NAICS (e.g., large business, small business, HUBZone small business, 8(a), small disadvantaged business, woman-owned small business, veteran-owned small business, service disabled-veteran owned small business, etc.). 4. Current number of employees. 5. Average annual revenue for the past 3 calendar years. 6. Discuss the type and number of facilities that are currently available and would be proposed to be used to satisfy the scope of work (describe the type of facilities, capacity, capabilities and equipment, facilities clearance level, etc). 7. Discuss your capability to perform under the requirements stated above. 8. Provide a brief summary of your company's experience and past performance within the past 3 years as a prime contractor as it relates to the magnitude and scope of this anticipated requirement. Each experience provided (Government or commercial) shall include the following information: (a) name of project, (b) brief description of project, (c) contract or project number, (d) contract type, (e) client/customer point of contact (name, address, phone number, e-mail address), (f) dollar/ceiling value of the contract/project, (g) period of performance of the contract/project, (h) relevance of contract/project to requirements of this anticipated effort, (i) total number and magnitude of task orders (dollar value, duration, etc) awarded to you under the contract; and (j) total number (delineated by business size) of subcontractors/team members managed by you under the contract. 9. Discuss your firm's financial capacity to serve as the prime contractor for this effort. Discuss your financial ability to support an effort of this size and scope, considering that payments may be as much as 60-90 calendar days in arrears of actual performance on multiple task orders. 10. Identify any real or potential organizational conflicts of interest that your firm may have regarding your status as a prime contractor. Address each system and/or program separately and provide your planned approach for mitigating any conflicts. If no real or potential conflicts exist, so state. 11. If classified as a small business under the above NAICS, discuss how your firm would meet the requirements that at least 50% of the cost of contractor performance incurred for personnel shall be expended for employees of the small business prime contractor. Responses to this request can be submitted in your own format, and shall be limited to 25 pages or less, excluding coversheets and/or table of contents. If data is submitted in electronic form, the data shall either be in Microsoft Word (*.doc or *.docx format) or Adobe Acrobat (*.pdf format). Microsoft Excel format is acceptable as well, if required. Avoid the use of non-mainstream data formats. All responses must be received by 5:00 p.m., 21 October 2011. The US Army Contracting Command - Redstone (ACC-R) is the responsible contracting office supporting this RFI. The ACC-R POC is Andy Eiermann. All communications regarding this RFI shall be provided to andy.eiermann@us.army.mil. The Government has a preference to receive all data electronically by email. Interested parties may also submit their data to the following address within the same timeline requirements. Hardcopy submissions shall consist of one (1) original and five (5) copies. The appropriate mail address to use is: US Army Contracting Command - Redstone, ATTN: RFI Submission, CCAM-RD-D/Andy Eiermann, Bldg 5400, Redstone Arsenal, AL 35898. Respondents to this Request for Information should not expect a response to their submission. Further information will be posted to this website or other appropriate web sites if required and when available. Again, this announcement is being used solely to gather market research information. This is not a request for proposals nor will any technical capability statements be considered to be a proposal. No reimbursement will be made for any costs associated with providing information in response to this synopsis or any follow-up information requests.
 

Web Link

FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/notices/80afdf3c40ed278105fa00d1787e89fe)
 

Place of Performance

Address: Aviation and Missile Research, Development, and Engineering Center, SSDD Building 5400, Martin Road Redstone Arsenal AL

Zip Code: 35898
 

Record

SN02583522-W 20110921/110920000555-80afdf3c40ed278105fa00d1787e89fe (fbodaily.com)
 

Source

FedBizOpps Link to This Notice
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