SOURCES SOUGHT
10 -- TALON Robot
- Notice Date
- 7/9/2015
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 333999
— All Other Miscellaneous General Purpose Machinery Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- ACC - Warren (ACC-WRN)(DTA), ATTN: AMSTA-AQ-AMB, E Eleven Mile Road, Warren, MI 48397-5000
- ZIP Code
- 48397-5000
- Solicitation Number
- W56HZV-15-D-XXXX
- Response Due
- 7/20/2015
- Archive Date
- 9/7/2015
- Point of Contact
- Marcille Nordstog, 586-282-3519
- E-Mail Address
-
ACC - Warren (ACC-WRN)(DTA)
(marcille.d.nordstog.civ@mail.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE I.Description of Intent This Notice is to gauge the availability of vendors that are capable and interested in satisfying the Government's requirement for reset, sustainment and maintenance parts to support 296 Army Requirements Oversight Council (AROC) Talons, also known as the Directed Requirement Talons (DR), 62 Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) Talons, 900 Man Transportable Robotic System/Explosive Ordnance Disposal (MTRS/EOD) Talons and Foreign Military Sales (FMS) for the Program Executive Office Combat Support and Combat Support Systems (PEO CS&CSS) Project Manager Force Projection (PM FP), and the United States Marine Corp (USMC), under PM FP Robotics Logistics Support Center (RLSC). II.General Information: PM FP Robotics Logistics Support Center (RLSC) is issuing a Sources Sought Notice as means of conducting market research only to identify parties having interest and resources to support this requirement. The information gained will be used for preliminary planning and to determine the availability of qualified contractors to see if any other means of procuring the Government's requirement for reset, sustainment and maintenance parts. The information received will be used by the Government to facilitate the decision-making process and will not be disclosed outside of the agency. If a solicitation is issued subsequent to this notice, information received from respondents will aid in the decision of whether to issue a solicitation as a competitive set-aside for qualified Small Businesses, Vendors with GSA Schedules or whether to issue the requirement as unrestricted full and open competition. The Government assumes no financial responsibility for cost incurred with providing information in response to this announcement or any follow-up information requests. This Notice does not constitute a Request for Proposal (RFP) and is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government for any purpose other than market research. Respondents will not be notified of the results regarding the market research survey. This notice is to determine if there are any other sources outside of QinetiQ the Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) for the Talon Robot. They are the OEM for the adapter parts and owns the intellectual property for the Talon system. The Government did not fund any portion of the Technical Data Package (TDP); therefore, it only has limited rights to the technical data. Without acquiring or developing a TDP, all other sources could only provide the standardized and universal components, which represent 10% of the items needed to sustain the platforms. The other 90% of items are unique to Talon. Any ensuing contract would be firm-fixed price with a period of performance of five years from the date of award. The parts to be procured are identified on the Master Parts List (MPL) to be incorporated into the contract. The contractor shall ensure that delivered spare parts comply in all respects with the manufacturer's performance requirements for each part number and shall update the Government submitted MPL as needed for part numbers or nomenclature. The Talon system is a 115 pound all-terrain, rugged, tracked robot used in the detection and disposal of Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) and other explosives. The genesis of this requirement came from the Man Transportable Robotic System Increment II (MTRS Inc. II) Bridging Strategy-Acquisition Decision Memorandum (ADM), dated 10 March 2014, which directed a quantity of 296 Talon Gen IV robotic systems (originally acquired for Theater operations) to be retained by RLSC. The ADM further directed the items to be reset to 10/20 standard with long term sustainment and maintenance for current and future use by Global Response Force (GRF) missions and Army Contingency Force (ACF) missions. III.Submission Instructions: All responding to this notice shall provide specific information to include a summary of their Company's capabilities. Information to be provided shall include a Capability Statement which demonstrates the skills, experience, knowledge, and capabilities necessary to meet the Government's requirement for reset, sustainment and maintenance parts to support 296 Army Requirements Oversight Council (AROC) Talons, also known as the Directed Requirement Talons (DR), 62 Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) Talons, 900 Man Transportable Robotic System/Explosive Ordnance Disposal (MTRS/EOD) Talons and Foreign Military Sales (FMS). Statements should address the contractor ability to obtain the relevant Master Parts List, and satisfy the Government's requirement for reset, sustainment and maintenance parts. The contractor shall address how it plans to ensure that the delivered spare parts comply in all respects with the manufacturer's performance requirements for each part number and it's plan for updating the MPL as needed for part numbers or nomenclature. The contractor response should list the firm's specific skills, experience, knowledge, and capabilities to complete these requirements, including, but not limited to a description of corporate experience with similar projects. The Capability Statement should include: 1.Contact information including: Company Name: Address: Point of Contact: Phone Number: Email Address: DUNS/Cage Code: Website Address: Type of Organization: Business Type(s): [ ] Large Business (LB), [ ] Small Business (SB), [ ] HUBZone (HZ), [ ] Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB), [ ] Woman Owned Small Business (WOSB), [ ] 8(a) Business Development Program, [ ] Small Disadvantaged Business (SDB), [ ] Veteran Owned Small Business (VOSB). 2.A statement indicating if your company possesses the capability to meet the entire requirements. Does your company have the ability to provide any, some, or all of the required Master Parts List requirement? Provide a table to list each service you are capable of providing. Does your company have approval to provide QinetiQ intellectual property for the Talon system? 3.Does your company have experience as a prime contractor performing services of the same or similar type effort(s) (to include size and complexity) within the past five years? If yes, please provide the following information: Contract number(s): Dollar value(s): Point of Contact (POC): POC Email address: POC Phone number: Brief description of your direct support of the effort: Similarity of scope, effort, complexity: 4.Potential sources should only submit the minimum information necessary and shall not exceed 2 pages. Telephone inquiries will not be accepted or acknowledged, and no feedback or evaluations will be provided to companies regarding their submissions. The Government may contact potential sources for additional information as required. 5.Interested parties are encouraged to be registered in the System for Award Management, www.sam.gov prior to responding to this Sources Sought Notice. 6.Interested parties that consider themselves qualified to perform the above listed services are invited to submit a response to this Sources Sought no later than 3:00PM EST July 20, 2015. Responses to this Sources Sought Notices shall be submitted via email to Marcille Nordstog, marcille.d.nordstog.civ@mail.mil.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: ACC - Warren (ACC-WRN)(DTA) ATTN: AMSTA-AQ-AMB, E Eleven Mile Road Warren MI
- Zip Code: 48397-5000
- Zip Code: 48397-5000
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