SOURCES SOUGHT
58 -- 360 Degree Situational Awareness System
- Notice Date
- 10/13/2011
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- Contracting Office
- US Army, Army Contracting Command, ACC New Jersey Contracting Center, Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey 07806-5000
- ZIP Code
- 07806-5000
- Solicitation Number
- W15QKN-11-X-F027
- Response Due
- 11/14/2011
- Archive Date
- 12/14/2011
- Point of Contact
- Jaye Rivera, Contract Specialist, 973-724-9294
- E-Mail Address
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Jaye Rivera
(jaye.s.rivera@us.army.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Synopsis: 360 Situational Awareness System for Remote Weapon Station Sources Sought/Request for Information (RFI) Announcement This Sources Sought Notice is a Request for Information (RFI) ONLY and should not be construed as a Request for Proposals (RFP) or a commitment by the U.S. Government. The US Army Contracting Command NJ, in support of the Project Manager Crew Served Weapons, is interested in acquiring information from organizations that possess a commercially off the shelf (COTS) 360o Situational Awareness system that can integrate with the XM153 Common Remotely Operated Weapon Station (CROWS). Specifically, the US Army is interested in a mature capability that will give the soldier a greater situational awareness when operating the CROWS system. The desire is to obtain a constant view of the surroundings from within the vehicle to aid in target acquisition, detection, and identification. Ideally, the 360o Situational Awareness system (360 SA) should affix onto the various Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles and be capable of piping the video feed onto the CROWS gunner display. The camera system should be capable of both day and night modes, and be able to toggle between them. The 360 o SA shall be an add-on kit that is ruggedized, and can be installed at a depot level using non-specialty tooling. Anything that increases the ability to detect targets (i.e. pan, zoom, expand views, image stabilization, low latency) or interact with the CROWS (slew-to-cue, configurable UI layout) is considered advantageous to the system as a whole. There exists a need to increase the gunners situational awareness of their surroundings while operating the CROWS remote weapon station. Currently, to inspect an area, the gunner uses the weapon station to survey a given point in space. This not only forces the gunner to point the weapon at this location, but also reveals the direction the gunner is observing to persons outside of the vehicle. If your company or organization has an existing commercially available or non-developmental item that meets these requirements, please provide literature or other information relative to the performance, maintenance, and physical characteristics (i.e. size, weight, etc.) of the product to the Contract Specialist listed. Vendor Questionnaire: The purpose of this questionnaire is to obtain information from industry to assist in market research. Firms/companies are invited to indicate their interest and capability to satisfy the above requirements by identifying the following items: 1. Company Name 2. Company Address / Country Represented / Website 3. Company point of contact and phone number 4. Business Size (Small/Large & Number of Employees) 5. NAICS Code / CAGE Code / DUNS Number 6. Commerciality a.( ) Our product as described above, has been sold, leased or licensed to the general public. b.( ) Our product as described above, has been sold in substantial quantities, on a competitive basis to multiple state and local governments. c.( ) None of the above applies. Explain. 7. Please provide any additional comments Responders are advised that the US Government will not pay for any information or administrative costs incurred in the response to this RFI: all costs associated with responding to this RFI will be solely at the interested partys expense. Not responding to this RFI does not preclude participation in any future RFP or other solicitation, if any is issued. This is a market survey, not a pre-solicitation notice. There is no formal solicitation available at this time. No award will be made as a result of this market survey. If a formal solicitation is generated at a later date, a solicitation notice will be published. All product information and hardware samples shall be submitted at no cost or obligation to the government. The government reserves the right to reject, in whole or in part, any private sector input as a result of this market survey.Information Format: It is preferred that information papers be Government Purpose Rights. Classified material will not be accepted. Material Samples can be sent, but any samples provided will be provided at no cost to the US Army. If requested, material samples will be returned to the provider at US Army cost.Information papers can be submitted in a white paper format. Material samples and information papers should be prepared and submitted by 12th November, 2011. However, late received papers will be reviewed as time allows. Information papers must be submitted as either hard copy or email to the point of contact for this action David Street, Contract Specialist, U.S Army Contracting Command, Building 9 Phipps Road, Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey 07806-5000, e-mail: david.w.street@us.army.mil. An additional point of contact for this action is Jaye Rivera, U.S. Army Contracting Command, Building 9 Phipps Road, Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey 07806-5000, e-mail: jaye.s.rivera@us.army.mil. TELEPHONE RESPONSES AND INQUIRIES WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. THIS IS NOT A SOLICITATION AND DOES NOT OBLIGATE THE GOVERNMENT TO ISSUE A SOLICITATION. Please be advised that the Government will not pay for any information submitted under this announcement. Electronic submittals are preferred. Respondents will not be notified of the results of this survey or results of information submitted.
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