MODIFICATION
A -- Sources Sought/Request for Information for Contractor Support on Advanced Laser Technology--Correct NAICS is 541712
- Notice Date
- 3/4/2014
- Notice Type
- Modification/Amendment
- NAICS
- 541712
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)
- Contracting Office
- ACC-APG - Washington, ATTN: CCCE-CW, 10205 Burbeck Road, Fort Belvoir, VA 22060-5863
- ZIP Code
- 22060-5863
- Solicitation Number
- W909MY-14-ADVLSR
- Response Due
- 3/10/2014
- Archive Date
- 5/3/2014
- Point of Contact
- Undra Robinson, 703-806-0813
- E-Mail Address
-
ACC-APG - Washington
(undra.n.robinson.civ@mail.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- The US Army Contracting Command - Aberdeen Proving Ground, Belvoir Division (ACC-APG Belvoir) on behalf of the US Army RDECOM CERDEC Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate (NVESD) is conducting market research in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 10. Responders to this Sources Sought/Request for Information (RFI) are asked to provide their technical capability information (aka Statement of Capabilities) needed to perform the requirements provided below. Statements should address the specific requirements of this notice and identify the vendors' specific capability to complete these requirements, including, but not limited to a description of corporate experience with similar projects and information on applicable industry certifications at the individual and organizational level as well as describing investments in quality/process improvement activities. NVESD's Laser Technology Team requires contractor support, which consists of design, assembly, and evaluation of lasers and systems under laboratory and field conditions, for their ongoing projects. These projects include the development and evaluation of laser sources for Laser Detection and Ranging, laser illumination for active imaging systems, laser designators, pointers, markers, lasers for explosives detection and neutralization, and range finders. The contractor must support the development of critical laser components; bulk crystalline and glass solid state gain materials and structures, Laser Detection and Ranging systems, active and passive fibers for fiber lasers, receivers for laser rangefinders, cameras for active imaging, electronics for digital and analog signal processing, high current laser diode drivers and Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems mirror deflectors. These projects require the purchase of laser components, optics, detectors, instrumentation and other miscellaneous materials for research and development. The acquisition may be set-aside for small business. The government is seeking additional information from small businesses to aid in the acquisition strategy for this requirement. Small Businesses interested in this opportunity may decide to partner/team with other businesses in order to meet the requirements of the acquisition. The North American Industry Classification Systems (NAICS) code is set as 541712 with a size standard of 500 employees. Responders should identify up to three relevant contracts and describe specific engineering, and research and development experience, knowledge, understanding, and expertise under NAICS code 541712 Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology). SECURITY: The contractor shall be required to have a facility clearance classified SECRET with SECRET classification safeguarding capability. Contractor personnel working on-site at NVESD (Ft. Belvoir, VA.) must have a security clearance of SECRET (minimum). The contractor shall be required to access defense information controlled under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and (at a minimum) For Official Use Only (FOUO). The contractor must be authorized to use the Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC). The contractor will be required to have automated information system (AIS) processing at their site. Administrative duties performed by the contractor will not require a clearance but will require an investigation for IT sensitive duties. The Government has unlimited rights to all data and hardware produced under this contract. The Government seeks companies with key competencies to comprehensively meet, in total, all of the following requirements: Task 1: Provide engineering support for internal research and development activities including the following tasks: a. Diode pumped solid state laser experimental work. Various laser cavity resonators shall be assembled and evaluated for efficiency, output pulse energy, beam divergence and beam pointing stability over the mil-spec temperature range. Different pumping arrangements, including laser diode stacks and vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) arrays shall be tested and their impact on laser performance shall be evaluated. Various laser gain materials such as Nd:YAG, Nd:YVO, Er/Yb glass shall be evaluated experimentally. b. Design, assemble and test LADAR systems. Compact LADAR systems shall be assembled based on eye-safe 1550 nanometer (nm) fiber laser transmitter sources. Mono-static and bi-static systems shall be tested under laboratory and field conditions. System performance shall be evaluated to determine maximum operating range, spatial resolution and range resolution. c. Design of fiber laser packages and systems. Compact fiber lasers and pulsed amplifiers shall be designed and assembled. The all-fiber devices shall be tested for electrical efficiency, beam quality, peak pulse power and pulse energy and spectral characteristics. The device shall include drive and control electronics and housing. Fiber lasers operating at 1060 nm and 1550 nm shall be fabricated and tested. These lasers and laser systems will also be optimized for peak performance given the particular active sensor. Optimized detectors for the designed lasers will also be required. d. Design of laser range finder systems. Improved laser sources for eye-safe range finders shall be fabricated and tested for pulse energy and pulse duration, beam quality, beam stability over a large temperature range. Lasers based on the Monoblock, Er/Yb glass and fiber amplifiers shall be fabricated and evaluated. Novel Q-switching techniques shall be implemented. e. Evaluate laser systems in the laboratory or in a field environment. Various laser systems, including UV and short wave infrared (SWIR) eye-safe laser pointers shall be evaluated in the field. Maximum operating range under various atmospheric conditions shall be determined. Laser rangefinders and laser designator and marker systems shall also be field tested to determine maximum effective ranges. f. Design and fabricate Silicon Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) fast mirror deflectors for Q-switching of lasers. g. Design and fabricate custom electronics for: digital and analog signal processing, high current laser diode drivers, high bandwidth optical receivers. h. Develop software for camera image processing and algorithms for extracting specific spatial features from the images generated by a focal plane array or camera. Task 2: The Contractor shall develop and provide custom optical components, electronic driver cards and miscellaneous materials for laser programs. The Contractor shall develop custom high current driver boards for actively Q-switched lasers (maximum quantity 20). These will need to generate 100-250 Amps (A), current pulses with a rise-time of less than 20 microseconds. These components include eye-safe 1550 nm Distributed Feedback (DFB) laser diodes, fiber lasers (maximum quantity 50), custom electronic boards (maximum quantity 50) for controlling fiber lasers and solid state lasers, MEMS fast mirror deflectors for Q-switching (maximum quantity 50), active Er/Yb doped and Yb doped optical fibers (500 meters), passive Silica fibers and other fiber-based components including high power optical isolators (maximum quantity 200), optical circulators (200), optical fiber couplers (maximum quantity 50), lenses (maximum quantity 100), cameras operating in the SWIR spectral band (maximum quantity 15) and the visible band (60). Task 3: The Contractor shall develop custom laser components and materials for laser systems. Required components include laser crystals, laser diode arrays, optics and driver electronics. Custom laser diode pumps will include VCSELs and laser diode stacks, and broad area laser diodes generating 50 Watts-2 kilowatts of peak power at wavelengths of 800-810 nm or 940-970 nm with pulse durations of 300-3000 microseconds. A total quantity of 100 laser diode pumps will be required to complete the contract. Critical laser components required are custom size and dopant concentration Cr:YAG crystals for passive Q-switching, Nd:YAG crystal laser rods, and Er/Yb glass and composite doped/undoped glass structures. A total quantity of 100 crystals and glass pieces will be required. Compact high current laser driver boards will be required, with a maximum current output of 100-200 A, a pulse repetition rate of 0.5-20 Hz, and pulse duration of up to 300-3000 microseconds. One hundred laser drivers of several designs will be needed. Also required are various optical components, telescopes, dichroic mirrors including lenses, high power polarizers, and spectral filters of varying sizes and specifications. The Government requests that interested offerors submit an electronic response of not more than twenty (20) pages, 8.5 quote mark x 11 quote mark paper, 12 pitch, Times New Roman font, with a minimum of one (1) inch margins all around. Responsible sources having relevant experience may submit their statement of interest and technical capabilities. All information received in response to this Sources Sought Synopsis that is marked quote mark Proprietary quote mark will be handled accordingly. Responses will not be returned nor will receipt be confirmed. Provide answers to the following questions (No more than 3 pages) Sources responding to this request for information must provide the following information: 1. Brief summary of the company, of no more than 3 paragraphs. 2. Company: Address: Point of Contact: Phone Number: Fax Numbers: Email Address: CAGE Code: DUNS Number: 3. Please identify your company's business size standard based on the primary North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) code of 541712. The Small Business Size Standard for this NAICS code is 750 number of employees. For more information, refer to http://www.sba.gov/content/table-small-business-size-standards: - Large Business Concern - Small Business (SB) Concern - 8(a) - Small Disadvantaged Business (SDB) - Woman-Owned Small Business - Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone) - Veteran-Owned Small Business - Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business 4. Has your Company performed this type of effort or similar type effort (to include size and complexity) in the past, if so provide Contract Number, Point of Contact (POC), e-mail address, phone number, and a brief description of your direct support of the effort? a. Do you plan to prime? Describe how you will either produce or subcontract for each component or assembly required. Please identify sources of supply for any components or assemblies for which you intend to subcontract production. Does your company possess the capabilities to provide the entire range of services called for in the above task list? ______ YES _______ NO b. If you answered YES to Question # 4a, please provide specific capabilities and examples for how your company can provide these services. c. If you answered NO to Question # 4a, please list what services in the RFI your company can provide? Please provide specific capabilities and examples. d. Does your firm possess an approved Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA) accounting system? THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS ONLY APPLY TO SMALL BUSINESS RESPONDENTS. Responses to the below questions shall be included in a separate section of the submission and will not be counted as part of the 20 page limit. e. Does your company meet the Non-manufacturing Rule? If so How? f. If you are a small business how do you select your partners and/or subcontractors? g. Under the current SB recertification regulations, do you anticipate your company remaining a small business, under primary NAICS Code 541712? Responses are due no later than 10 March 2014, 10:00 AM Eastern Standard Time (EST). Email responses should not exceed 5 Megabytes (MB). Any information submitted by respondents to this sources sought synopsis is voluntary. The Army does not intend to award a contract on the basis of this notice or to otherwise pay for the information solicited. Respondents should not construe this synopsis as a commitment for any purpose. Respondents will not individually be notified of the results of any government assessments. The Government's evaluation of the capability statements received will factor into whether any forthcoming solicitation will be conducted as a full and open competition or as a set-aside for small businesses, or any particular small business designation (e.g. SDVOSB, HUBZone, 8(a), SDB, WOSB, VOSB, etc.). Submit responses electronically to Mr. Undra Robinson, Contract Specialist, at undra.n.robinson.civ@mail.mil by no later than 10:00 AM EST on 10 March 2014. All requests for further information must be made in writing or via email; telephonic or facsimile requests for additional information will not be honored.
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- Zip Code: 22060-5863
- Zip Code: 22060-5863
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