SPECIAL NOTICE
13 -- Medium Caliber RDT&E Industry Day - Industry Day Attachments
- Notice Date
- 1/30/2017
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 332993
— Ammunition (except Small Arms) Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Army, Army Contracting Command, ACC - NJ (W15QKN), BUILDING 10 PHIPPS RD, PICATINNY ARSENAL, New Jersey, 07806-5000, United States
- ZIP Code
- 07806-5000
- Solicitation Number
- W15QKN-17-X-08JV
- Archive Date
- 3/8/2017
- Point of Contact
- Kristen Rounsaville, Phone: 9737242843, Victoria R. Bocchino,
- E-Mail Address
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kristen.a.rounsaville.civ@mail.mil, victoria.r.bocchino.civ@mail.mil
(kristen.a.rounsaville.civ@mail.mil, victoria.r.bocchino.civ@mail.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Agenda Foreign Visitor Request Notification and Authorization to Release Criminal Information for Entry Registration Form Title: Industry Day Notice - Medium Caliber RDT&E Industry Day Description(s): The U.S. Army Contracting Command, New Jersey (ACC-NJ) on behalf of the Office of the Project Manager, Maneuver Ammunition Systems (OPM-MAS), will be hosting a Medium Caliber RDT&E Industry Day. The Industry Day is tentatively scheduled to start at 8:30 AM EST on 23 March 2017 at the Hilton Garden Inn in Rockaway, NJ, with onsite registration beginning at 8:00 AM. The purpose of this Industry Day is to provide information regarding the current and future Research, Development, Test and Evaluation (RDT&E) projects overseen by the Product Director for Medium Caliber Ammunition. Interested participants must pre-register for Industry Day by completing the registration form attached to this announcement. No more than four (4) representatives may attend from each company. This will be strictly enforced. All representatives MUST provide a Government form of photo identification at registration. Please send the completed registration form electronically to Ms. Kristen Rounsaville at Kristen.a.rounsaville.civ@mail.mil, and Victoria Bocchino at Victoria.r.bocchino.civ@mail.mil by no later than 21 February 2017. A block of 80 rooms at the Hilton Garden Inn Rockaway are available on a first-come, first-served basis. To receive USG per diem rate under this block, you must reserve using Group Code: RDTE and the below link NLT 01 March 2017. http://hiltongardeninn.hilton.com/en/gi/groups/personalized/E/EWRROGI-RDTE-20170322/index.jhtml. Industry Day will consist of the following (3) parts: 1) General session: The general session will be scheduled for the morning of 23 March 2017 and will cover all RDT&E projects being planned by the Medium Caliber Office. 2) One-on-One session: Each one-on-one session will be twenty (20) minutes long. The one-on-one session will be conducted in the afternoon of 23 March 2017 at the Hilton Garden Inn, Rockaway, NJ. Depending on interest, it may be necessary to have one on one sessions on 24 March at Picatinny Arsenal. For planning purposes, companies interested in conducting one-on-ones must indicate this on the attached registration form. A more definitive agenda will be posted at a later date. 3) Mk19/M320 Weapon System Observation: All companies are invited to observe the Mk19 & M320 weapon system at Picatinny Arsenal, NJ on 23 March 2017. The purpose of this observation is to become familiar with the tight space requirements for integration of a programmer solution in support of the 40mm High Velocity Improved High Explosive Dual Purpose (I-HEDP) & Low Velocity Increased Range Anti-Personnel (IRAP) Cartridge. For planning purposes, companies interested must indicate this on the attached registration form. A more definitive agenda will be posted at a later date. If a participant is attending a one-on-one session and/or the Mk19/M320 Weapon System Observation at Picatinny Arsenal, NJ, the individual must complete the attached Notification and Authorization to Release Criminal Information for Entry Sheet and provide to Visitor Control on the day of the event. Driver licenses and identification cards issued by a State to any person must also meet the requirements of the REAL ID Act in order to gain entry into the Arsenal. Information regarding these requirements and to check the status of compliance of each state can be found at: https://www.dhs.gov/real-id-enforcement-brief. If the participant attending the weapon observation is a foreign visitor, a Foreign Visitor Request (FVR) must be filled out and submitted on the corporate letterhead of the company requesting access no later than 13 February 2017. Please use the attached example of the FVR as a guide for when submitting this request. The letterhead must include a physical corporate address, post office boxes will not be accepted and be signed by a corporate officer: CEO or VP (Note: FVR's signed by the CFO will not be accepted). Also, the person signing the FVR cannot be also listed as a visitor. The following are the Medium Caliber Industry Day Rules of Engagement (RoE): - The Government intends to use this forum to better refine its requirements, not to elicit trade secrets. - Contractor personnel shall be limited to a total of four attendees per participating company. - No sales pitches allowed from industry; no give-aways. - No cameras, tape recorders, or other reproduction devices are allowed. - Total time allotted for the contractor's one-on-one session is twenty minutes. Under no circumstances will the allotted time be extended. - Restrict comments/questions to the topics listed in this forum. - Contractor personnel must be identified in advance, and only advance substitutions (2 days in advance notice) will be permitted. This announcement should not be construed as a Request for Proposal (RFP) or a commitment by the U.S. Government. The U.S. Government does not intend to award a contract on the basis of this Industry Day.
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